Books
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World – now available!
Aug 9th
Catalogue copy from the publisher (Scribner/Simon & Schuster):
From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today’s most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of America’s future.
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The Global Achievement Gap
Jan 25th
Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The New World of Work and the Seven Survival Skills Chapter 2: The Old World of School Chapter 3: Testing, 1 2 More >
Change Leadership
Jan 25th
A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools
Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools, co-authored by Robert Kegan and colleagues at the Change Leadership Group, was published by JosseyBass last year. The result of five years of work with school districts around the country, Change Leadership is a powerful learning More >
Making the Grade
Jan 25th
Reinventing America’s Schools
Making the Grade: Reinventing America’s Schools reframes the education debate in fundamental ways. Wagner argues persuasively that schools are not failing and can’t be helped with reforms. Rather the public education system has become obsolete and must be reinvented. He goes on to describe principles of reinvention, new More >
How Schools Change
Jan 24th
Lessons from Three Communities Revisited
How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited is a highly readable acount of three high schools and their communities in the process of fundamental change. It is widely considered an education classic. In the new second edition, Tony revisits the three schools he first studied More >
