Navigating Comprehensive School Change

This book, an accessible resource for busy practitioners, is a unique hybrid of two genres:As a "tourist guide", it shows you: • how to prepare for the journey • what to pay attention to upon arrival • how to deal with the unexpectedAs a "consumer report", it helps you: • identify some of the best tools and sources about change • access useful information about the change process • find information about the strengths and challenges of various strategiesThorough and comprehensive, it offers essential information about how to: • form leadership teams • identify high stakes problems • build commitment • create a school-wide vision and establish school-wide goals • handle setbacks • maintain the vision and sustain change. • evaluate and assess comprehensive school changeAlso included is a section called "Ports of Call" which provides sources of information to help you implement comprehensive school reform at your site.From Michael Fullan's Foreword . . . "Chenoweth and Everhart take the big concepts of change and work them through operationally at the level of day-to-day practice. We learn how to form leadership teams, the importance of focusing on capacity-building and reculturing, how to build commitment while dealing with dissatisfaction, problem-solving during implementation, how to keep going, and how to go beyond standardized testing in developing a range of alternative assessment strategies. "