The Forces Behind School Change: Defining and Understanding the Call for Improvement

The Forces Behind School Change will provide school communities with the knowledge and skills to close the achievement gap. In addition to dozens of best practice ideas that schools will need, this book also spotlights how to the use the most up-to-date information on the brain to help students achieve educational excellence and provides hope, confidence, and the know-how to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of ensuring that every child, no matter their background, will meet the high academic standards.

Tim J. Carman is president of the LEAD Academy (Leadership Excellence For Academic Achievement). He served for nearly 20 years as a teacher at every grade level-from elementary to collegiate. He moved full time to the university level as a professor teaching in a licensure program for school administrators then returned to public school administration for an additional 15 years. Dr. Carman has published three books aimed at helping schools to achieve high academic standards.