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• Cover
• Contents
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Chapter One: Introduction: Reframing the Problem
• A Knowledge Economy Requires New Skills for All Students
• Greater Supports for Learning in a Changing Society
• Reform or Reinvention? Technical Challenges Versus Adaptive Challenges
• Organizational Beliefs and Behaviors
• Individual Beliefs and Behaviors
• Accepting the Challenge and the Risks: Moving Toward Communities of Practice via Collaborative Learning
• Part One: Improving Instruction
• Chapter Two: Creating a Vision of Success
• Challenges to Improving Instruction
• Seven Disciplines for Strengthening Instruction
• Using the Seven Disciplines
• Launching an Instructional Improvement System: The Critical First Conversations
• Developing a Shared Vision
• Defining a New Framework for Effective Instruction
• Linking the New 3 R’s of Instruction
• Chapter Three: Committing Ourselves to the Challenge
• Identifying Your Commitment
• Spotting Your Obstacles Through Self-Reflection
• Reflections
• Part Two: Why is this so Hard?
• Chapter Four: Generating Momentum for Change
• Obstacles to Improvement Versus Momentum for Improvement
• Generating the Momentum for Systemic Change
• Communities of Practice as a Strategy
• Chapter Five: Exploring Individual Immunities to Change
• Attending to Countering Behaviors
• A Deeper Look
• Finding the Competing Commitment
• Taking the Next Step
• Reflections
• Part Three: Thinking Systemically
• Chapter Six: Relating the Parts to the Whole
• Arenas of Change
• Toward Transformation: Using the 4 C’s
• Another Use for the 4 C’s
• Chapter Seven: The Individual as a Complex System
• Hidden Commitments and Personal Immunities
• Big Assumptions and Immunities
• Reflections
• Part Four: Working Strategically
• Chapter Eight: The Ecology of Change
• Phases of Whole-System Change
• Change Levers: Data, Accountability, and Relationships
• Strategic Change in Action
• Putting the Pieces Together: The Ecology of Educational Transformation
• Measuring Success and the Challenge of High-Stakes Test Scores
• Chapter Nine: Overturning Your Immunities to Change
• Steps Toward Individual Change
• Considering Steps for the Most Powerful Learning
• Phases in Overturning Your Immunities
• Becoming Fully Released from Immunities to Change
• Reflections
• Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Bringing the Outward and Inward Focus Together
• Hold High Expectations for All Our Students
• Involve Building and Central Office Administrators in Instruction
• Choose a Priority and Stay Relentlessly Focused on it
• Foster a Widespread Feeling of Urgency for Change
• Encourage a New Kind of Leader
• Develop a New Kind of Administrative Team
• Shining a Broader Light on Change
• Implications for the Change Leader: Toward Adaptive Work
• Concluding … or Commencing?
• Appendixes
• A. Team Exercises
• B. Recommended Reading
• Index