TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dudar,Linda
AU  - Scott,Shelleyann
AU  - Scott,Donald E.
TI  - Accelerating change in schools: leading rapid, successful, and complex change initiatives 
T2  - Advances in educational administration,
SN  - 9781786355010 (e-book)
AV  - LB2806 .A23 2017
U1  - 371.2 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Bingley
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Education
KW  - Administration
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Educational leadership
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prelims -- Section I - Leadership and rapid change -- The demand for rapid change -- Understanding the theory of change processes -- Stakeholders and change participants - Important influencers -- Defining change leadership -- The self-aware and discerning change agent -- The rapid change model -- Section II - Rapid change: success stories from educational leaders -- The head and heart of change: leaders' advice about change -- Leaders' success stories of culture (people) change -- Leaders' success stories of program change -- Stakeholders are important too! -- Context is interesting and important -- Are you ready? -- About the Authors -- References -- Index
N2  - Research indicates change is complex and difficult, and requires considerable time to achieve, sometimes years or even decades.  This book presents major findings from a research study exploring the leadership needed to enact rapid change - defined as three years or less - in various school contexts, overtly including the perspectives of leaders, teachers, students, parents, community members, and district leaders.  We challenge many of the assumptions in current scholarly literature about how fast, complex change can or should be wrought within educational environments; indeed, our premise is that rapid, complex change is not only possible but may be highly desirable and successful given the right leadership approach.We present a pragmatic "rapid change" model emerging from in-depth explorations of successful leadership approaches that accelerated the change agenda in these schools.  We outline the theoretical underpinnings to the model and overtly articulate the pragmatic approaches leaders found to be effective in implementing fast-paced change.  We also present case studies of successful change in schools with descriptions and advice elicited from leaders and stakeholders
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S1479-3660201727
ER  -