Full Description
In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.
Contents
Introduction xi
The Author xvii
Part One: The Nature of Change
1 Changing Paradigms 3
2 The Meanings of Change 21
3 The Culture of Resistance 40
Part Two: Dimensions of Change
4 Implementation: Tasks of Transition 55
5 Substance: New Agendas, Old Problems 74
6 Staff: Understanding Reluctant Faculty 91
7 Setting: Assessing Organizational Capacity 119
8 Leadership: Old Paradoxes, New Promise 145
Part Three: Leading Innovation
9 The Authentic Leader 183
10 Clarity and Focus: The Power of Concentration 206
11 Participation — Without Paralysis 229
12 Recognition: Reversing the Golden Rule 254
13 Confrontation: Avoiding Avoidance 272
14 Reach and Realism, Experience and Hope 289
References 301
Index 311
