Some Resources for Thinking About School Change

Adler, M. The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
Barth, R. “A Personal Vision of a Good School.” Phi Delta Kappan, March 1990: 512-516.
Brown, R. Schools of Thought: How the Politics of Literacy Shape Thinking In The Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1991.
Comer, J. P. School Power. New York: Free Press, 1980.
Darling-Hammond, L. “Standards of Practice for Learner-Centered Schools.” New York National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST), 1992.
Evans, R. L. “The Faculty in Midcareer: Implications for School Improvement.” Educational Leadership 46:8 (1989), 10-15.
Fullan, M. with S. Stiegelbauer. The New Meaning of Educational Change. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.
Gardner, H. The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
Hampel, R. The Last Little Citadel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Lieberman, A. and L. Miller. “Restructuring Schools: What Matters and What Works.” Phi Delta Kappan, June 1990: 759-763.
Lieberman, A. and L. Miller. Staff Development For Education In The ’90s: New Demands, New Realities, New Perspectives. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.
Lieberman, A. and S. Rosenholtz. “The Road to School Improvement: Barriers and Bridges.” In The Ecology of School Renewal: 86th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, ed. John Goodlad. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
McDonald, J. Teaching: Making Sense of an Uncertain Craft. New York: Teachers College Press, 1992.
Powell, A., D. Cohen and E. Farrar. The Shopping-Mall High School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Sarason, S. The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971.
Sarason, S. The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform: Can We Change Course Before It’s Too Late? San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1991.
Schein, E. Process Consultation, Vols. I and II. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1988.
Sirotnik, K. “Evaluation in the Ecology of Schooling: The Process of School Renewal.” In The Ecology of School Renewal: 86th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, ed. John Goodlad. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Sizer, T. Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Sizer, T. Horace’s School: Redesigning the American High School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Wasley, P. Teachers Who Lead. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.

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