No Small Feat! Taking Time for Change

""""Dr. Solomon has written an uncommonly practical book about the complexity of school change. Teachers and administrators will finish this book and say, 'She understands us, she knows what we think and feel. She does not make it easy, but at the same time, she causes us to think, to see school change not only as school change but as personal change as well.' This is no small feat."" From the foreword by Seymour B. Sarason Professor Emeritus of Psychology Yale University This illuminating book examines restructuring and reculturalization, curriculum change, and school governance reform; but it is also a story about what makes schools work. In a refreshingly clear style, Solomon has captured the promise and pitfalls of the current school restructuring movement. She explores the many concerns and challenges that anyone attempting restructuring will encounter: the necessary power shifts, the uses of power as an instrument of change, the contradictory messages to schools and teachers, and the deep-seated differences among school staff in fundamental beliefs about education. Solomon places a particular emphasis on the role of time in reform efforts and how time and other resources impact the way schools resolve differences and implement complex changes in students and staff roles. She emphasizes that time, in its three perspectives - as a resource, in its passage, and in the sense of timeliness - is a variable of a variable of great importance. Solomon also gives practical suggestions and provides templates for implementing successful change. The templates cover practicing, researching, reflecting, facilitating, monitoring, coaching, feedback and more. This book isfor anyone - whether you're a teacher, an administrator, or a policy maker - who has a present or future leadership role in the process of improving schools. It is a story with heroes and heroines that offers hope for your schSolomon, Pearl G. is the author of 'No Small Feat! Taking Time for Change' with ISBN 9780803962828 and ISBN 0803962827.