Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256) and index.

Foreword xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Authors xxvii
Introduction: Reframing the Problem
1 (20)
A Knowledge Economy Requires New Skills for All Students
3 (3)
Greater Supports for Learning in a Changing Society
6 (2)
Reform or Reinvention? Technical Challenges Versus Adaptive Challenges
8 (4)
Organizational Beliefs and Behaviors
12 (2)
Individual Beliefs and Behaviors
14 (2)
Accepting the Challenge and the Risks: Moving Toward Communities of Practice via Collaborative Learning
16 (5)
PART ONE Improving Instruction
21 (40)
Creating a Vision of Success
23 (28)
Challenges to Improving Instruction
24 (3)
Seven Disciplines for Strengthening Instruction
27 (5)
Using the Seven Disciplines
32 (2)
Launching an Instructional Improvement System: The Critical First Conversations
34 (1)
Developing a Shared Vision
35 (3)
Defining a New Framework for Effective Instruction
38 (5)
Linking the New 3 R's of Instruction
43 (8)
Committing Ourselves to the Challenge
51 (10)
Identifying Your Commitment
51 (3)
Spotting Your Obstacles Through Self-Reflection
54 (7)
Reflections
59 (2)
PART TWO Why Is This So Hard?
61 (34)
Generating Momentum for Change
63 (20)
Obstacles to Improvement Versus Momentum for Improvement
64 (10)
Generating the Momentum for Systemic Change
74 (1)
Communities of Practice as a Strategy
74 (9)
Exploring Individual Immunities to Change
83 (12)
Attending to Countering Behaviors
83 (2)
A Deeper Look
85 (2)
Finding the Competing Commitment
87 (3)
Taking the Next Step
90 (5)
Reflections
93 (2)
PART THREE Thinking Systemically
95 (36)
Relating the Parts to the Whole
97 (26)
Arenas of Change
98 (12)
Toward Transformation: Using the 4 C's
110 (10)
Another Use for the 4 C's
120 (3)
The Individual as a Complex System
123 (8)
Hidden Commitments and Personal Immunities
124 (3)
Big Assumptions and Immunities
127 (4)
Reflections
130 (1)
PART FOUR Working Strategically
131 (126)
The Ecology of Change
133 (34)
Phases of Whole-System Change
133 (1)
Change Levers: Data, Accountability, and Relationships
134 (3)
Strategic Change in Action
137 (25)
Putting the Pieces Together: The Ecology of Educational Transformation
162 (1)
Measuring Success and the Challenge of High-Stakes Test Scores
163 (4)
Overturning Your Immunities to Change
167 (26)
Steps Toward Individual Change
168 (16)
Considering Steps for the Most Powerful Learning
184 (1)
Phases in Overturning Your Immunities
185 (2)
Becoming Fully Released from Immunities to Change
187 (6)
Reflections
191 (2)
Conclusion: Bringing the Outward and Inward Focus Together
193 (64)
Hold High Expectations for All Our Students
196 (2)
Involve Building and Central Office Administrators in Instruction
198 (4)
Choose a Priority and Stay Relentlessly Focused on It
202 (5)
Foster a Widespread Feeling of Urgency for Change
207 (2)
Encourage a New Kind of Leader
209 (5)
Develop a New Kind of Administrative Team
214 (4)
Shining a Broader Light on Change
218 (3)
Implications for the Change Leader: Toward Adaptive Work
221 (6)
Concluding...or Commencing?
227 (4)
APPENDIXES
A. Team Exercises
231 (24)
B. Recommended Reading
255 (2)
Index 257

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