LEADING CHANGE
Principals' Stories of School Reform
To be a leader in a school committed to innovation is to walk a tightrope
between collaboration and supervision, between faculty and community, between
inspiration and perspiration. Each of the principals who contributed to
"Leading Change: Principals' Stories of School Reform" has walked
that tightrope successfully. Each believes that his or her school has become
a better place for learning and for kids.
The eight principals who share their stories in this book are members of
the 1993 class of Thomson Fellows, part of the Coalition
of Essential Schools' nationwide faculty of school-based practitioners
who have demonstrated unusual skills and progress in their local school
change efforts.
The principals talk about how prepared they were for the challenges of their
leadership roles, how they dealt with opposition from inside and outside
the school, how they redefined their own notions of leadership, and how
they developed support for their school's program of change.
Together, their stories offer practical ideas to put to use today, reflections
on the role of leadership in school change, and illustrations of perseverance,
courage and deep faith in the possibility of making our schools into better
places.
"The experience and anecdotes in this book are priceless to aspiring
principals. The book also includes new insights for those of us who have
attempted to improve teaching and learning in schools." -- Schott D.
Thomson, former executive director of the National Association of Secondary
School Principals, in whose honor the Thomson Fellows program was named.
Leading Change, 82 pp., softcover, $8.00
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[Excerpted from a Coalition for Essential Schools brochure]