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The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation
Contributor(s): Evans, Robert (Author)

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 ISBN: 0787956112     ISBN-13: 9780787956110
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
OUR PRICE: $32.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2001
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Annotation: In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it. "A unique, superb, and penetrating analysis of the human side of educational change. Evans knows the human realities of change and portrays them vividly in both individual and organizational terms. His discussion of hope and realism in the final chapter is a gem." --Michael Fullan, dean, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto "Evans certainly understands what gets in the way of real school change and what the simple, key elements are that can make it happen. No board member, superintendent, or school principal should make one more decision or host one more meeting without reading this book." --Judy Cunningham, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, Calif. "Evans has written a realistic yet hopeful book that sets a new standard for providing the leadership needed to implement school improvements. An engaging and much-needed update of the critical, but often overlooked, human side of change." --Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education and senior fellow, Center for Educational Leadership, Trinity University "School leaders will find this book realistic about the difficulties of change, rich in practical advice about school improvement, and useful in showing how to transcend the limits of their own experience to practiceeffective leadership." --Thomas W. Payzant, superintendent, Boston Public Schools The Author Robert Evans is a clinical and organizational psychologist and director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Mass. A former high school and preschool teacher, he has consulted to hundreds of schools and districts throughout America and around the world and has worked extensively with teachers, administrators, school boards, and state education officials.

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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
- Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Education | Administration - General
Dewey: 371.200
Series: Jossey-Bass Education
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.96" W x 8.96" L (0.94 lbs) 336 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.
 
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