Our Book Announcement! A Conversation with Authors Kirsten, Jeff and Margaret
“We wanted to write a book that would help educators filter change options by answering the question, ‘Do we really need to make this change to serve our population of students’?”
Today on Getting Unstuck
The problem: School leaders are inundated with near endless mandates and recommendations on how to improve education. How do they make sense of change possibilities and implement select changes to achieve desired outcomes?
The solution: School leaders and their staffs must first reconfirm what it is that they’re trying to achieve – the outcomes and impact – for their particular student population. That determination can then serve as a filter through which change options can be considered.
Authors Margaret Zacchei, Jeff Ikler, and Kirsten Richert
Today on “Getting Unstuck,” we unabashedly talk about our new book, Shifting: How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change, why we wrote it, the school leaders and thought leaders who influenced it, and how we feel it will help educators ask the right question about a potential change:
“Is this change something that will help us achieve our “Why of Intended Impact”
– the outcomes we seek on behalf of our students”?
From our publisher, Corwin Press
In Shifting, educators and leadership experts Kirsten Richert, Jeff Ikler and Margaret Zacchei empower educational change leaders to proactively and coherently navigate complex change in schools to achieve the desired outcomes.
The ARC Model Change: Working Coherently Toward Your Why
Using a three-part framework—Assess, Ready, Change—this book leads educators to examine a school’s imperatives and readiness for change, identity the tools and abilities required to manifest change, and take action by defining the roles and processes necessary to effectively implement both sweeping change and smaller day-to-day adjustments.
Change leaders learn to
• Shift the emphasis in the change process from procedure to the people leading and implementing change
• Move from an environment of “command and control” to one of leaders creating other leaders
• Reframe change as an essential shift in school culture rather than a series of episodic event
Rich with leadership insights, stories, podcasts, and hands-on activities, Shifting offers an integrated tapestry of wisdom and support for change-makers intent on meaningful collaboration in a positive, engaged workplace.
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