Schools That Change: Evidence-Based Improvement and Effective Change Leadership

by Lewis Smith (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $106.61

  Through specific examples, qualitative research, and portraiture, the author illustrates how and why some schools are able to achieve significant, sustainable change while others cannot.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $44.02

  Learn from schools that have made meaningful, positive, and lasting changes! The author presents an in-depth look at eight schools across the nation, winners of the National School Change Awards, that transformed themselves from low-performing to exemplary national status.

  With specific examples, qualitative research, and portraiture, this insightful resource offers an inside view of the day-to-day dynamics of change in schools and provides answers to:

  -Why are some schools able to change while other schools cannot?

  -Why are people challenged by change?

  -What is the best way to measure change?

  -What characteristics must principals refine to bring about significant and sustainable change?