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Guiding Change in Special Education
How to Help Schools With New Ideas and Practices
- Ronald G. Havelock - Knowledge Transfer Institute
- James L. Hamilton - American Institutes for Research, USA
Foreword by Maurice McInerney
January 2004 | 296 pages | Corwin
The book presents a seven-stage model of school change (and sustained change) designed specifically to help schools move to integrated and improved services for special education students. The primary audience is the `linking' agent - the administrator who is responsible for helping direct the school's efforts, be it the headteacher, the special education director, the staff development leader, or some other administrator within the school. Because the model is intended first for site trial, then district-wide reform, the audience expands to include other administrators and teachers that are involved in the process.
Maurice McInerney
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Case Study
Stage 1. Care: Establishing the Need for Action
Stage 2. Relate: Building a Relationship
Stage 3. Examine: Understanding the Problem
Stage 4. Acquire: Seeking and Finding Relevant Resources
Stage 5. Try: Moving From Knowledge to Action
Stage 6. Extend: Gaining Deeper and Wider Acceptance
Stage 7. Renew: Encouraging Ongoing Change
Summary and Synthesis
References
Index
