Schools Can Change

A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning
Dale W. Lick - Florida State University Learning Systems Institute and Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Karl H. Clauset - National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center
Carlene U. Murphy - National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center
Schools Can Change
November 2012 | 256 pages | Corwin
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Build a dynamic system for change!

From No Child Left Behind to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system!
The Change Creation system produces a creative, collaborative, nurturing school environment—and you can make it happen. The authors use what they have learned over two decades of working with schools implementing Whole Faculty Study Groups to make improvements and refinements that create a more streamlined and effective grass-roots system for measurable and sustainable student growth.

Learning community pioneers Dale Lick, Karl Clauset, and Carlene Murphy show teachers, principals, and schools how to:

  • Develop the right vision, relationships, and culture to create and sustain change
  • Create communication networks for sharing that work
  • Model learning-inquiry cycles for action teams for success
  • Build loyalty, trust, and responsibility within your teams and across the school

With a free, comprehensive online collection of practical resources including templates, checklists and action team assessment forms, Schools Can Change will become your keystone for school innovation and improved student learning.

"Far too many good initiatives fall short due to lack of planning and exclusion of important stakeholders. The authors tell us how to build a sustainable culture over time. They don't pretend that it is easy, but give the educator confidence that it can be done."
—Eddie Ingram, Superintendent
Franklin County Schools, Louisburg, NC

"This is the most comprehensive book on the topic of school change ever written. The suggested practices and strategies at various stages create a comprehensive, meaningful text. This book helps us gain practical wisdom at all levels in our districts and schools."
—Lyne Ssebikindu, Assistant Principal
Crump Elementary School, Cordova, TN

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Figures and Tables

Online Resources

Online Resources

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

  • Purpose and Need
  • Who Should Read and Use This Book?
  • Organization and Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. The Change Creation System
  • School Improvement
  • School Reforms
  • The Roots of the Change Creation System
  • No Silver Bullet, One Brick at a Time
  • Standards for Professional Learning and Practice
  • The Change Creation System
  • Summary

Part I. Fundamentals of Effectiveness

  • 2. Fundamentals of Effectiveness for School Improvement
  • Understanding the Culture
  • Culture of Discipline
  • Culture of Change Creation
  • Culture of Relationships and Collaboration
  • Culture of Transformational Leadership
  • Cultural Change
  • Summary
  • 3. Fundamentals of Vision and Successful Change
  • Vision
  • Change
  • Success and Failure of Change
  • Effective Sponsorship in Schools
  • Change and Resistance in Schools
  • Universal Change Principle for Schools
  • Summary
  • 4. Fundamentals for Creating Learning Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Action Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  • Authentic Teams and Synergy
  • Comentoring Teams
  • Learning Teams
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Summary

Part II. The Process of the Change Creation System

  • 5. Introducing the Decision-Making Cycle
  • Action Teams Decision-Making Cycle
  • Preparing to Start the Decision-Making Cycle
  • Summary
  • 6. Identifying Student Learning Needs and Forming Action Teams
  • Student Learning Needs That Action Teams Address
  • How to Identify Student Learning Needs
  • Form Action Teams and Select Student Needs to Address
  • Selecting Student Needs to Address
  • Support for Identifying Student Needs and Forming Action Teams
  • Summary
  • 7. Introducing Action Teams
  • Action Teams in the Change Creation System
  • The Work of Action Teams
  • Purposes of Action Teams
  • Action Team Principles
  • Action Team Process Guidelines
  • Effective Action Team Meetings
  • Action Teams as a Bundle of Changes
  • Summary
  • 8. Support for Action Teams
  • Keep the Focus on Student Learning
  • Protect Time for Action Team Meetings
  • Establish Routines
  • Provide Regular, Frequent, and Constructive Feedback to Action Teams
  • Understand the Developmental Stages of Action Teams
  • Help Struggling Teams Move Forward
  • Develop Communication Networks and Strategies to Share Action Teams' Work and Results
  • Form Administrator Action Teams
  • Summary
  • 9. Creating Team Action Plans
  • Team Action Plan
  • Creating Team Action Plans
  • Support for Action Teams on Their Team Action Plans and Logs
  • Summary
  • 10. Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Improving Student Learning: Parts 1 and 2
  • Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles
  • Supporting Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Student Learning
  • Summary
  • 11. Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Improving Student Learning: Parts 3 and 4
  • Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles
  • Supporting Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Student Learning
  • Summary
  • 12. Assessing the Impact of Action Teams and Sharing Results and Best Practices
  • Assessing the Impact of Action Teams on Teacher Practice and Student Learning
  • Sharing Results and Best Practices and Applying Lessons Learned
  • Repeating the Decision-Making Cycle Each Year
  • Supporting Assessing the Impact of Action Teams and Sharing Results and Best Practices
  • Summary

Epilogue

Epilogue

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

Description

Build a dynamic system for change!

From No Child Left Behind to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system!
The Change Creation system produces a creative, collaborative, nurturing school environment—and you can make it happen. The authors use what they have learned over two decades of working with schools implementing Whole Faculty Study Groups to make improvements and refinements that create a more streamlined and effective grass-roots system for measurable and sustainable student growth.

Learning community pioneers Dale Lick, Karl Clauset, and Carlene Murphy show teachers, principals, and schools how to:

  • Develop the right vision, relationships, and culture to create and sustain change
  • Create communication networks for sharing that work
  • Model learning-inquiry cycles for action teams for success
  • Build loyalty, trust, and responsibility within your teams and across the school

With a free, comprehensive online collection of practical resources including templates, checklists and action team assessment forms, Schools Can Change will become your keystone for school innovation and improved student learning.

"Far too many good initiatives fall short due to lack of planning and exclusion of important stakeholders. The authors tell us how to build a sustainable culture over time. They don't pretend that it is easy, but give the educator confidence that it can be done."
—Eddie Ingram, Superintendent
Franklin County Schools, Louisburg, NC

"This is the most comprehensive book on the topic of school change ever written. The suggested practices and strategies at various stages create a comprehensive, meaningful text. This book helps us gain practical wisdom at all levels in our districts and schools."
—Lyne Ssebikindu, Assistant Principal
Crump Elementary School, Cordova, TN

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Figures and Tables

Online Resources

Online Resources

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

  • Purpose and Need
  • Who Should Read and Use This Book?
  • Organization and Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. The Change Creation System
  • School Improvement
  • School Reforms
  • The Roots of the Change Creation System
  • No Silver Bullet, One Brick at a Time
  • Standards for Professional Learning and Practice
  • The Change Creation System
  • Summary

Part I. Fundamentals of Effectiveness

  • 2. Fundamentals of Effectiveness for School Improvement
  • Understanding the Culture
  • Culture of Discipline
  • Culture of Change Creation
  • Culture of Relationships and Collaboration
  • Culture of Transformational Leadership
  • Cultural Change
  • Summary
  • 3. Fundamentals of Vision and Successful Change
  • Vision
  • Change
  • Success and Failure of Change
  • Effective Sponsorship in Schools
  • Change and Resistance in Schools
  • Universal Change Principle for Schools
  • Summary
  • 4. Fundamentals for Creating Learning Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Action Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  • Authentic Teams and Synergy
  • Comentoring Teams
  • Learning Teams
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Summary

Part II. The Process of the Change Creation System

  • 5. Introducing the Decision-Making Cycle
  • Action Teams Decision-Making Cycle
  • Preparing to Start the Decision-Making Cycle
  • Summary
  • 6. Identifying Student Learning Needs and Forming Action Teams
  • Student Learning Needs That Action Teams Address
  • How to Identify Student Learning Needs
  • Form Action Teams and Select Student Needs to Address
  • Selecting Student Needs to Address
  • Support for Identifying Student Needs and Forming Action Teams
  • Summary
  • 7. Introducing Action Teams
  • Action Teams in the Change Creation System
  • The Work of Action Teams
  • Purposes of Action Teams
  • Action Team Principles
  • Action Team Process Guidelines
  • Effective Action Team Meetings
  • Action Teams as a Bundle of Changes
  • Summary
  • 8. Support for Action Teams
  • Keep the Focus on Student Learning
  • Protect Time for Action Team Meetings
  • Establish Routines
  • Provide Regular, Frequent, and Constructive Feedback to Action Teams
  • Understand the Developmental Stages of Action Teams
  • Help Struggling Teams Move Forward
  • Develop Communication Networks and Strategies to Share Action Teams' Work and Results
  • Form Administrator Action Teams
  • Summary
  • 9. Creating Team Action Plans
  • Team Action Plan
  • Creating Team Action Plans
  • Support for Action Teams on Their Team Action Plans and Logs
  • Summary
  • 10. Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Improving Student Learning: Parts 1 and 2
  • Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles
  • Supporting Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Student Learning
  • Summary
  • 11. Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Improving Student Learning: Parts 3 and 4
  • Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles
  • Supporting Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Student Learning
  • Summary
  • 12. Assessing the Impact of Action Teams and Sharing Results and Best Practices
  • Assessing the Impact of Action Teams on Teacher Practice and Student Learning
  • Sharing Results and Best Practices and Applying Lessons Learned
  • Repeating the Decision-Making Cycle Each Year
  • Supporting Assessing the Impact of Action Teams and Sharing Results and Best Practices
  • Summary

Epilogue

Epilogue

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

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A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning

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Build a dynamic system for change!

From No Child Left Behind to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system!
The Change Creation system produces a creative, collaborative, nurturing school environment—and you can make it happen. The authors use what they have learned over two decades of working with schools implementing Whole Faculty Study Groups to make improvements and refinements that create a more streamlined and effective grass-roots system for measurable and sustainable student growth.

Learning community pioneers Dale Lick, Karl Clauset, and Carlene Murphy show teachers, principals, and schools how to:

  • Develop the right vision, relationships, and culture to create and sustain change
  • Create communication networks for sharing that work
  • Model learning-inquiry cycles for action teams for success
  • Build loyalty, trust, and responsibility within your teams and across the school

With a free, comprehensive online collection of practical resources including templates, checklists and action team assessment forms, Schools Can Change will become your keystone for school innovation and improved student learning.

"Far too many good initiatives fall short due to lack of planning and exclusion of important stakeholders. The authors tell us how to build a sustainable culture over time. They don't pretend that it is easy, but give the educator confidence that it can be done."
—Eddie Ingram, Superintendent
Franklin County Schools, Louisburg, NC

"This is the most comprehensive book on the topic of school change ever written. The suggested practices and strategies at various stages create a comprehensive, meaningful text. This book helps us gain practical wisdom at all levels in our districts and schools."
—Lyne Ssebikindu, Assistant Principal
Crump Elementary School, Cordova, TN


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Online Resources
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Purpose and Need
  • Who Should Read and Use This Book?
  • Organization and Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 1. The Change Creation System
  • School Improvement
  • School Reforms
  • The Roots of the Change Creation System
  • No Silver Bullet, One Brick at a Time
  • Standards for Professional Learning and Practice
  • The Change Creation System
  • Summary
  • Part I. Fundamentals of Effectiveness
  • 2. Fundamentals of Effectiveness for School Improvement
  • Understanding the Culture
  • Culture of Discipline
  • Culture of Change Creation
  • Culture of Relationships and Collaboration
  • Culture of Transformational Leadership
  • Cultural Change
  • Summary
  • 3. Fundamentals of Vision and Successful Change
  • Vision
  • Change
  • Success and Failure of Change
  • Effective Sponsorship in Schools
  • Change and Resistance in Schools
  • Universal Change Principle for Schools
  • Summary
  • 4. Fundamentals for Creating Learning Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Action Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  • Authentic Teams and Synergy
  • Comentoring Teams
  • Learning Teams
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Summary
  • Part II. The Process of the Change Creation System
  • 5. Introducing the Decision-Making Cycle
  • Action Teams Decision-Making Cycle
  • Preparing to Start the Decision-Making Cycle
  • Summary
  • 6. Identifying Student Learning Needs and Forming Action Teams
  • Student Learning Needs That Action Teams Address
  • How to Identify Student Learning Needs
  • Form Action Teams and Select Student Needs to Address
  • Selecting Student Needs to Address
  • Support for Identifying Student Needs and Forming Action Teams
  • Summary
  • 7. Introducing Action Teams
  • Action Teams in the Change Creation System
  • The Work of Action Teams
  • Purposes of Action Teams
  • Action Team Principles
  • Action Team Process Guidelines
  • Effective Action Team Meetings
  • Action Teams as a Bundle of Changes
  • Summary
  • 8. Support for Action Teams
  • Keep the Focus on Student Learning
  • Protect Time for Action Team Meetings
  • Establish Routines
  • Provide Regular, Frequent, and Constructive Feedback to Action Teams
  • Understand the Developmental Stages of Action Teams
  • Help Struggling Teams Move Forward
  • Develop Communication Networks and Strategies to Share Action Teams' Work and Results
  • Form Administrator Action Teams
  • Summary
  • 9. Creating Team Action Plans
  • Team Action Plan
  • Creating Team Action Plans
  • Support for Action Teams on Their Team Action Plans and Logs
  • Summary
  • 10. Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Improving Student Learning: Parts 1 and 2
  • Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles
  • Supporting Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Student Learning
  • Summary
  • 11. Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Improving Student Learning: Parts 3 and 4
  • Implementing Learning and Inquiry Cycles
  • Supporting Learning and Inquiry Cycles for Innovation and Student Learning
  • Summary
  • 12. Assessing the Impact of Action Teams and Sharing Results and Best Practices
  • Assessing the Impact of Action Teams on Teacher Practice and Student Learning
  • Sharing Results and Best Practices and Applying Lessons Learned
  • Repeating the Decision-Making Cycle Each Year
  • Supporting Assessing the Impact of Action Teams and Sharing Results and Best Practices
  • Summary
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"The Change Creation System is an empowerment of professional educators who want to meet the learning needs of their students and inform their own practice. Finally, a call to reform by a collaboration of school professionals who develop best practice for the students in their own schools. This is an informed work that provides a step by step process for school wide renewal and individual professional development as it appeals to the best that is within us and students."
Sherry Markel, Professor, Teacher Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
"This book will become an essential resource to school districts as they continue to develop capacity to lead students and staff to greater levels of effectiveness. This book will take all of us from where we are and move us to make greater differences for our students."
Claudia Thompson, Academic Officer, Learning and Teaching, Peninsula School District, Gig Harbor, WA
"In a changing world, our schools must change, but far too often administrators do not know how to make the changes necessary to keep up with the rapidly developing world. This book offers a wealth of resources, practical experience and a direct model for how to change to meet the needs of learners. This book is a "must read" for any administrator who wants to make a long-lasting impact on the learning outcomes in his or her school."
Renee Peoples, Teacher, Swain West Elementary, Bryson City, NC
"This is the most comprehensive book on the topic of school change ever written. The suggested practices and strategies at various stages create a comprehensive, meaningful text. This book helps us gain practical wisdom at all levels in our districts and schools."
Lyne Ssebikindu, Assistant Principal, Crump Elementary School, Cordova, TN
"If school communities are looking for a comprehensive road map for school improvement, they will not find anything more comprehensive. The authors not only set out a plan on how to get to where you need to go, but they identify every small pothole that you will encounter, and which can sometimes derail school improvement. This book in two words—comprehensive, authentic."
Neil MacNeill, Headmaster, Ellenbrook Independent Primary School, Ellenbrook, WA Australia

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