Deep Change Leadership: A Model for Renewing and Strengthening Schools and Districts (a Resource for Effective School Leadership and Change Efforts)

As 21st century educators grapple with new and unprecedented challenges, schools and districts require a model of change leadership that responds to shifting environmental realities. Deep Change Leadership aims to give leaders pragmatic ways to spark change in education. Author Douglas Reeves offers up a model that departs from traditionally held beliefs and instead embraces engagement, inquiry, and focused action.

Use this resource to set in motion effective change initiatives:

• Explore the principal impediments to effective change leadership, including fragmentation and the myth of universal buy-in.
• Learn the means by which you can gauge your and your school's or district's readiness for change.
• Study the characteristics of deep change leadership, which involves deciding what does not change, supplementing passion with purpose, and narrowing your focus.
• Discover how to make sound course corrections and avoid mistakes in change leadership.
• Understand real results in terms of both outcomes and causes.

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction

Part 1: The Deep Change Imperative
Chapter 1: Recognizing Schools' Need for Deep Change
Chapter 2: Understanding the Pain Inherent in Change
Chapter 3: Exposing the Myth of Buy-In
Chapter 4: Getting Ready for Deep Change

Part 2: The Deep Change Model
Chapter 5: Deciding What Does Not Change
Chapter 6: Imagining
Chapter 7: Focusing
Chapter 8: Implementing
Chapter 9: Accelerating

Part 3: The Path Ahead
Chapter 10: Making Course Corrections
Chapter 11: Anticipating Mistakes in Change Leadership
Chapter 12: Building a Team for Deep Change

Epilogue: Iceberg Ahead
References and Resources
Index

Douglas Reeves, PhD, is the author of more than forty books and one hundred articles on leadership and organizational effectiveness. Twice named to the Harvard University Distinguished Authors Series, Dr. Reeves has worked with education and nonprofit organizations in fifty U.S. states and more than forty countries. Dr. Reeves's volunteer activities include service as the founding editor and co-publisher of The SNAFU Review, a collection of essays, stories, poetry, and art by disabled veterans. He is also the founder of the Marsh Writers Collaborative, an open forum for writers encouraging writers, as well as Finish the Dissertation, which provides free and noncommercial help to writers and doctoral candidates around the world. Dr. Reeves is a fellow of the Institute of Coaching, an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.

To learn more about the work of Dr. Reeves, visit Creative Leadership Solutions as creativeleadership.net, or follow @DouglasReeves on Twitter.

To book Douglas Reeves for professional development, contact pd@solutiontree.com.