Dream! Create! Sustain!: Mastering the Art and Science of Transforming School Systems

by Francis M. Duffy

Overview

Dream! Create! Sustain! is written for courageous, passionate, and visionary change leaders working in school systems throughout the world. It provides those change leaders with essential concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics for how to create and sustain whole-system change in their school systems. The information provided by Duffy is based on years of research on and real-world experience with systemic change, learning organizations, systems thinking, and organization-wide change. This book includes a description of a transformational change methodology and set of tools specifically designed to create and sustain whole-system change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607098522
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	08/16/2010
Series:	Leading Systemic School Improvement
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Francis M. Duffy is a professor of change leadership in education at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. He is the founding editor of Rowman & Littlefield Education's Leading Systemic School Improvement Series and has written numerous books.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Prologue to Revolution
Part 2 Foundational Knowledge for Transforming School Systems
Chapter 3 Honoring the Past While Moving Toward the Future
Chapter 4 Strapping Wings on a Caterpillar and Calling It a Butterfly: When Systemic Change Is Not Systemic
Chapter 5 Leadership for Transformational Change
Chapter 6 Chaos Theory and the Sciences of Complexity
Part 7 Mastering Awareness
Chapter 8 Paradigms, Mental Models, and Mindsets: Triple Barriers to Transformational Change in School Systems
Chapter 9 Scanning the External Environment
Part 10 Mastering Deliberate Intention
Chapter 11 The Power of Deliberate Intention
Chapter 12 Shaping the Future of Your School System
Chapter 13 The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education
Part 14 Mastering Methodology
Chapter 15 Systemic Transformation in Public School Systems
Chapter 16 Learning Management Systems
Chapter 17 The SST Protocol
Chapter 18 Seven Common Objections to Transformational Change
Part 19 The Future of Leadership for Transformational Change
Chapter 20 The AECT FutureMinds Initiative
Chapter 21 A National Framework of Professional Standards for Change Leadership in Education
Part 22 Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

Too many educational organizations as well as elected officials view educational reform through the lens of: increase focus, work harder, and reward the best who do so. This paradigm doesn’t work or, at best, doesn’t work on the scale that is necessary. We MUST change from the lens of reform to lens of transformation. Francis M. Duffy agues for a revolution—a revolution of paradigm shifts to create educational systems for the twenty-first-century global, interdependent environment in which we will either thrive or die. Duffy builds on his prior writings of transformational change and about leaders with courage, passion, and vision to create a framework to revolutionize education. The question before us all is 'Will we act?'

Jack Dale

Francis M. Duffy is one of the nation's leading educators when it comes to the need for transformation in education. His newest book continues the tradition of advocating for reform in a holistic, realistic, and practical way and should be required reading of anyone concerned with the status of K–12 education in the United States today. Of special note is Duffy's focus on long-term change as opposed to simple slogans and easy answers, which we hear from some regarding education. This is a book well worth reading!

Tom Houlihan

Dream! Create! Sustain! Mastering the Art and Science of Transforming School Systems would be an excellent resource for a think tank charged with the design and overhaul of the American educational system.

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