Perspectives on Change: Michael Fullan
- Schools must break the bonds of dependency between themselves and the external environment by reducing usage of overload and packaged solutions
- Restructuring schools is a shared responsibility between teachers who are the key to improvement, and leaders.
- Needed: Cultural Change Principal, who is a big-picture and conceptual thinker and develops the organization through people. She must have a/n:
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Moral Purpose |
- Focus on student learning throughout the district
- Intentional effort in student learning
- Healthy respect for complexity of change process
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Understanding of change |
- Indepth understanding of change
- Innovative in the management of change
- Select few coherent innovations
- Develop shared commitment
- Expect and accept bumps in the road to implementation
- Learn from divergent views
- Focus on cultural change
- Manage change
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Improved Relation |
- Emotionally intelligent leaders develop relationships among divergent thinkers
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Knowledge creation and sharing |
- Develop organizational norms for ongoing learning, knowledge creation and sharing by example
- Develop structures and processes to support the learning community
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Increased coherence |
- Complete coherence is unattainable
- Careful and intentional selection of ideas that further the school mission and vision
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- Sustainability requires hard work over many years, a moral and social environment, contextual learning, leadership succession, transforming working conditions for teachers.
Michael Fullan
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