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All Systems Go
The Change Imperative for Whole System Reform
- Michael Fullan - Michael Fullan Enterprises Inc.
Foreword by Peter Senge
June 2010 | 136 pages | Corwin
Changing whole education systems for the better as measured by student achievement requires coordinated leadership at school, community, county, and government levels. Based on the author's work with Canadian, UK, and U.S. districts and large systems, this resource lays out a comprehensive action plan for achieving whole-system reform. The book examines:
- Successful reform initiatives in the U.S. and abroad
- Actions and conditions that have insured traction and sustainability
- Ways to avoid common errors of action, funding, and policy
- New reforms at the national level that can impact learning right now
Foreword by Peter Senge
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. The System
1. The Idea and Importance of Whole System Reform
2. Deceptive Inadequacies
Part II. Getting There
3. Collective Capacity at the School and District Level
4. The State We Are In
5. Individual Capacity Building
Part III. A New Era
6. Politicians and Professionals Unite
References
Index
A concise and accessible work outlining Fullan's thoughts on whole system reform with references to examples of practice.
School of Education, Roehampton University
June 26, 2010
