Guiding Change in Special Education
How to Help Schools With New Ideas and Practices
Ronald G. Havelock
- Knowledge Transfer Institute
James L. Hamilton
- American Institutes for Research, USA
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Create a new reality by guiding your team to successful changes in special education!
Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability…optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face—these are the ideals of special education.
Making these ideals reality often requires change. As an educator, you realize this, and you would like to make a difference in your school. But how? Guiding Change in Special Education illustrates the seven stages of school change then, stage by stage, Havelock and Hamilton provide explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process. At the core of the process are these change agents:
Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability…optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face—these are the ideals of special education.
Making these ideals reality often requires change. As an educator, you realize this, and you would like to make a difference in your school. But how? Guiding Change in Special Education illustrates the seven stages of school change then, stage by stage, Havelock and Hamilton provide explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process. At the core of the process are these change agents:
- Local educators trying to ensure that no child with a disability is left behind
- Parents advocating change because they care deeply about the cause
- Consultants available to help people act more effectively as a team
- Academics able to efficiently pinpoint needs within special education
- Experts with specialized knowledge to offer solutions to problems
- Informal marketing and sales people to help get the word out The "Linker"—an important player who connects people and resources, finds support, and helps organize the group
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
Introduction
Case Study
- Stage 1. Care: Establishing the Need for Action
- Someone Must Care Enough to Make It All Worthwhile
- A Three-Step Model of Change: Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze
- How School Systems Show (and Don't Show) That They Are in Trouble
- Inside Versus Outside Forces
- Linking Agent as Connector and Orchestrator of Forces
- Whose Responsibility? The Value Issues in Helping
- Care: Summary
- Stage 2. Relate: Building a Relationship
- Build a Good Relationship With the People You Are Trying to Help
- Diagram Your School or School District as a Social Network
- Linker Configurations
- How to Size Up Your Relationship
- Final Word on Relationship Building
- Relate: Summary
- Stage 3. Examine: Understanding the Problem
- Turn Cares Into Problems You Can Solve
- Making a Good Diagnosis
- The Data Collection Phase
- The Analytic Phase
- Making a Diagnostic Inventory
- Systemic Analysis: Understanding the System
- A Data Collection Process
- A Set of Rating Dimensions
- Creating a Diagnostic Matrix/Checklist That Points to Solutions
- Integrating Diagnosis With the Other Stages
- Examine: Summary
- Stage 4. Acquire: Seeking and Finding Relevant Resources
- The Money Theory of Change
- The People Theory of Change
- The Knowledge Theory of Change
- Acquiring Materials (= Packaged Knowledge)
- Acquire: Summary
- Stage 5. Try: Moving From Knowledge to Action
- Giving a Fair Trial to a Well-Considered Solution
- Pretrial Feasibility Testing: Comparing and Selecting the Best
- Plan the Implementation
- What Is the Process?
- How Can You Evaluate Process?
- What Are the Outcomes?
- Can You Measure Outcomes?
- Cautions on Evaluation
- Using the Results
- Sharing With Your Team
- Try: Summary
- Stage 6. Extend: Gaining Deeper and Wider Acceptance
- Issues About Adoption and Diffusion
- Solidifying Adoption at the Trial Site (Keeping Going)
- Expanding Change at the Trial Site
- Extending the Trial to Proximate Sites (Follow-On Adoption)
- Extending Adoption to the Larger System
- Variations of the Adoption Curve
- Going Wider: Strategies and Tactics (The Second Stage of Diffusion)
- Extend: Summary
- Stage 7. Renew: Encouraging Ongoing Change
- How Do Systems Absorb Changes?
- Improve the Process
- Keep the Change Fresh
- Create a Self-Renewal Capacity
- From Item Change to System Change
- Installing the Change Function
- Terminating and Moving On
- Renew: Summary
Summary and Synthesis
Summary and Synthesis
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Create a new reality by guiding your team to successful changes in special education!
Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability…optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face—these are the ideals of special education.
Making these ideals reality often requires change. As an educator, you realize this, and you would like to make a difference in your school. But how? Guiding Change in Special Education illustrates the seven stages of school change then, stage by stage, Havelock and Hamilton provide explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process. At the core of the process are these change agents:
Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability…optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face—these are the ideals of special education.
Making these ideals reality often requires change. As an educator, you realize this, and you would like to make a difference in your school. But how? Guiding Change in Special Education illustrates the seven stages of school change then, stage by stage, Havelock and Hamilton provide explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process. At the core of the process are these change agents:
- Local educators trying to ensure that no child with a disability is left behind
- Parents advocating change because they care deeply about the cause
- Consultants available to help people act more effectively as a team
- Academics able to efficiently pinpoint needs within special education
- Experts with specialized knowledge to offer solutions to problems
- Informal marketing and sales people to help get the word out The "Linker"—an important player who connects people and resources, finds support, and helps organize the group
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
Introduction
Case Study
- Stage 1. Care: Establishing the Need for Action
- Someone Must Care Enough to Make It All Worthwhile
- A Three-Step Model of Change: Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze
- How School Systems Show (and Don't Show) That They Are in Trouble
- Inside Versus Outside Forces
- Linking Agent as Connector and Orchestrator of Forces
- Whose Responsibility? The Value Issues in Helping
- Care: Summary
- Stage 2. Relate: Building a Relationship
- Build a Good Relationship With the People You Are Trying to Help
- Diagram Your School or School District as a Social Network
- Linker Configurations
- How to Size Up Your Relationship
- Final Word on Relationship Building
- Relate: Summary
- Stage 3. Examine: Understanding the Problem
- Turn Cares Into Problems You Can Solve
- Making a Good Diagnosis
- The Data Collection Phase
- The Analytic Phase
- Making a Diagnostic Inventory
- Systemic Analysis: Understanding the System
- A Data Collection Process
- A Set of Rating Dimensions
- Creating a Diagnostic Matrix/Checklist That Points to Solutions
- Integrating Diagnosis With the Other Stages
- Examine: Summary
- Stage 4. Acquire: Seeking and Finding Relevant Resources
- The Money Theory of Change
- The People Theory of Change
- The Knowledge Theory of Change
- Acquiring Materials (= Packaged Knowledge)
- Acquire: Summary
- Stage 5. Try: Moving From Knowledge to Action
- Giving a Fair Trial to a Well-Considered Solution
- Pretrial Feasibility Testing: Comparing and Selecting the Best
- Plan the Implementation
- What Is the Process?
- How Can You Evaluate Process?
- What Are the Outcomes?
- Can You Measure Outcomes?
- Cautions on Evaluation
- Using the Results
- Sharing With Your Team
- Try: Summary
- Stage 6. Extend: Gaining Deeper and Wider Acceptance
- Issues About Adoption and Diffusion
- Solidifying Adoption at the Trial Site (Keeping Going)
- Expanding Change at the Trial Site
- Extending the Trial to Proximate Sites (Follow-On Adoption)
- Extending Adoption to the Larger System
- Variations of the Adoption Curve
- Going Wider: Strategies and Tactics (The Second Stage of Diffusion)
- Extend: Summary
- Stage 7. Renew: Encouraging Ongoing Change
- How Do Systems Absorb Changes?
- Improve the Process
- Keep the Change Fresh
- Create a Self-Renewal Capacity
- From Item Change to System Change
- Installing the Change Function
- Terminating and Moving On
- Renew: Summary
Summary and Synthesis
Summary and Synthesis
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Guiding Change in Special Education
How to Help Schools With New Ideas and Practices
November 2003 | 296 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9780761939641 | $100.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780761939658 | $46.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781483360607 | $43.00 |
Create a new reality by guiding your team to successful changes in special education!
Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability…optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face—these are the ideals of special education.
Making these ideals reality often requires change. As an educator, you realize this, and you would like to make a difference in your school. But how? Guiding Change in Special Education illustrates the seven stages of school change then, stage by stage, Havelock and Hamilton provide explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process. At the core of the process are these change agents:
Meeting the challenge of teaching a child with a disability…optimizing the potential of a classroom of troubled students...seeing the look of understanding on a child's face—these are the ideals of special education.
Making these ideals reality often requires change. As an educator, you realize this, and you would like to make a difference in your school. But how? Guiding Change in Special Education illustrates the seven stages of school change then, stage by stage, Havelock and Hamilton provide explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process. At the core of the process are these change agents:
- Local educators trying to ensure that no child with a disability is left behind
- Parents advocating change because they care deeply about the cause
- Consultants available to help people act more effectively as a team
- Academics able to efficiently pinpoint needs within special education
- Experts with specialized knowledge to offer solutions to problems
- Informal marketing and sales people to help get the word out The "Linker"—an important player who connects people and resources, finds support, and helps organize the group
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Case Study
- Stage 1. Care: Establishing the Need for Action
- Someone Must Care Enough to Make It All Worthwhile
- A Three-Step Model of Change: Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze
- How School Systems Show (and Don't Show) That They Are in Trouble
- Inside Versus Outside Forces
- Linking Agent as Connector and Orchestrator of Forces
- Whose Responsibility? The Value Issues in Helping
- Care: Summary
- Stage 2. Relate: Building a Relationship
- Build a Good Relationship With the People You Are Trying to Help
- Diagram Your School or School District as a Social Network
- Linker Configurations
- How to Size Up Your Relationship
- Final Word on Relationship Building
- Relate: Summary
- Stage 3. Examine: Understanding the Problem
- Turn Cares Into Problems You Can Solve
- Making a Good Diagnosis
- The Data Collection Phase
- The Analytic Phase
- Making a Diagnostic Inventory
- Systemic Analysis: Understanding the System
- A Data Collection Process
- A Set of Rating Dimensions
- Creating a Diagnostic Matrix/Checklist That Points to Solutions
- Integrating Diagnosis With the Other Stages
- Examine: Summary
- Stage 4. Acquire: Seeking and Finding Relevant Resources
- The Money Theory of Change
- The People Theory of Change
- The Knowledge Theory of Change
- Acquiring Materials (= Packaged Knowledge)
- Acquire: Summary
- Stage 5. Try: Moving From Knowledge to Action
- Giving a Fair Trial to a Well-Considered Solution
- Pretrial Feasibility Testing: Comparing and Selecting the Best
- Plan the Implementation
- What Is the Process?
- How Can You Evaluate Process?
- What Are the Outcomes?
- Can You Measure Outcomes?
- Cautions on Evaluation
- Using the Results
- Sharing With Your Team
- Try: Summary
- Stage 6. Extend: Gaining Deeper and Wider Acceptance
- Issues About Adoption and Diffusion
- Solidifying Adoption at the Trial Site (Keeping Going)
- Expanding Change at the Trial Site
- Extending the Trial to Proximate Sites (Follow-On Adoption)
- Extending Adoption to the Larger System
- Variations of the Adoption Curve
- Going Wider: Strategies and Tactics (The Second Stage of Diffusion)
- Extend: Summary
- Stage 7. Renew: Encouraging Ongoing Change
- How Do Systems Absorb Changes?
- Improve the Process
- Keep the Change Fresh
- Create a Self-Renewal Capacity
- From Item Change to System Change
- Installing the Change Function
- Terminating and Moving On
- Renew: Summary
- Summary and Synthesis
- References
- Index