List of Figures
Foreword Yong Zhao
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
SECTION I. THE ROAD TO “THRIVE”: VALUE, STRATEGY, INNOVATION
1. A Few Big Guide Rails
2. Your School’s Value Proposition
3. What Is Strategy?
4. Innovation: The Link Between Value and Strategy
5. Shifting From Strategic Planning to Strategic Design
SECTION II. THE FIVE BIG TOOLS OF STRATEGIC CHANGE FOR SCHOOLS
6. Big Tool #1 : Kotter(+)—Key Steps to Effectively Changing Schools
7. Big Tool #2: Design-Based Practice
8. Big Tool #3: The Time-Tested Logic Model
9. Big Tool #4: The School Innovation Stairway
10. Big Tool #5: Understanding the School System
SECTION III. START BUILDING
11. Finding the Values of Your School Community
12. Do You Know the Jobs Your School Is Hired to Do?
13. Lead Like an Architect
14. Finding Your School’s North Star
15. Building Cultures of Innovation in Schools
16. Learning from Other Successful Organizations
17. Measuring Innovation
18. Inevitable Obstacles
19. Pushing Our Horizons
Appendix I. Activities for Your Teams
Appendix II. Schools, Networks, Conferences and Book Suggestions to Help Discover “The Possible”
References
Index

Grant Lichtman is an internationally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K-12 education.  He speaks, writes, and works with fellow educators to build capacity and comfort with innovation in response to a rapidly changing world. Since 2012, he has worked with nearly 200 school and community teams in both public and private schools, helping them to develop their imagination of schools of the future, and their places in that future. He is the author of three previous books, Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Change Education; #Ed Journey: A Roadmap to the Future of Education; and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School. For fifteen years Grant was a senior administrator at one of the largest and oldest K-12 independent schools in California with responsibilities that included business, finance, operations, technology, development, campus construction, and global studies.  Before working in education, he directed business ventures in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet Union, South America, and the U.S. Gulf Coast. He worked close to center stage in the economic and political transformation of the USSR, the end of the Cold War, and the historic opening of that communist-dominated economy to the outside world. Grant graduated from Stanford University with a BS and MS in geology in 1980 and studied the deep ocean basins of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Bering Sea. He and his wife, Julie, live in Poway, California. They have two grown children, Josh and Cassidy, who are doing great things to help improve our world.