Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools

The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability. This book brings the work of the Change Leadership Group to a broader audience, providing a framework to analyze the work of school change and exercises that guide educators through the development of their practice as agents of change. It exemplifies a new and powerful approach to leadership in schools.

Tony Wagner is co-director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  He is also Education Chair of the Harvard Seminar on Redesigning American High Schools.  He consults widely with schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally and is Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Wagner is the author of Making the Grade and How Schools Change.

Robert Kegan is co-director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG), and Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  His work focuses on the importance of continued psychological development in adulthood.  Kegan is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including four honorary doctorates and the Massachusetts Psychological Association's Techer of the Year award.  He is author of The Evolving Self and (with Lisa Laskow Lahey) How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work.

Lisa Laskow Lahey is associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  For over 20 years she has been a consultant to schools and businesses helping to turn workplace problems and issues into opportunities for transformational learning.  A former principal and high school teacher, Lahey is co-founder and senior consultant at Minds at Work, a consulting firm specializing in school and workplace learning in the U.S. and Europe.  She is co-author (with Robert Kegan) of How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work.