Full Description
Develop equity, excellence, and well-being across the whole system! The world is troubled!
We need to combine a moral imperative and a system transformation to survive for the better. Education is crucial to our future but needs to play a more direct role in shaping our future. The Devil is in the Details shows how we can re-think the education system and its three levels of leadership—local, middle, and top—so that each level can contribute to dramatic turnaround for education and society. The focus is on examining details to ensure effective actions are taken, rather than assuming large pronouncements and policies will drive change. Readers will find:
• Details and analysis about successful systems in California, Ontario, and Australia
• Ideas for how leaders at all levels can take steps to begin
• Vignettes, actions and strategies that illustrate how to address equity, excellence and well-being
With the goal of transforming the culture of learning to develop greater equity, excellence, and student wellbeing, this book will help you liberate the system and maintain focus.
Contents
Preface
PART I: SYSTEM CHANGE
Chapter 1: The Nature of the Beast
The March of Evolution
The Dramatic Toll of Rising Inequity
The Serious Deficiency of Current Policies
Conclusion
Chapter 2: The Emergence of System Solutions
The Limits of Complexity
The Phenomenology of Good System Change
Transition Time
Leadership From the Middle
Conclusion
PART II: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
Chapter 3: The School: The Leading Edge of Change
Living Locally
The New Moral Imperative
Equity
Excellence
Well-Being
How Does a School Improve in These Ways?
Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Middle: Fuel and Glue
Who Is "the Middle"?
Successful Districts: Still in the Minority
More System Change
Guidelines for the Middle
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Macro: Direction and Liberation
Ontario, Canada; California, United States; Victoria, Australia: Good Start-Ups at Different Places in the Learning
Beware of (Seductive) Distractors
Layered, Connected Autonomy
Conclusion
PART III: THE NEW WORLD
Chapter 6: Where Do We Go From Here?
Details, Details, Details
System Change
The Global South and the Global North
A Necessary Convergence
Conclusion: As Human as You Get
References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
