Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders (Educational Leadership Development for Change Management) (Solutions)

Author: Anthony Muhammad

Brand: Solution Tree

Number Of Pages: 152

Details: Product Description

Transformational leaders have four distinctive skills: strong communication, the ability to build trust, the ability to increase the skills of those they lead, and a results orientation. Time for Change offers powerful guidance for those seeking to develop and strengthen the educational leadership skills needed for change management and overcoming resistance to change. Throughout this authoritative guide, Anthony Muhammad and Luis F. Cruz share concrete tools and strategies that will prepare you to lead your school toward lasting, meaningful, and strategic change.
Use this educational leadership book to inspire a shared vision and help in overcoming resistance to change: Develop an understanding of educational leadership and change management as skills that can be practiced and improved. Consider three questions of transformational leadership (Why? Who? How?) and then Do! Learn about the technical and cultural dimensions of change and the ways in which both must be addressed. Understand the reasons behind resistance to change and how to manage it through effective leadership. Synthesize your skills as a school leader and utilize them to effect strategic change.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Finding Balance for Systems Change
Chapter 2: Communicating the Rationale — Building Cognitive Investment
Chapter 3: Establishing Trust — Making an Emotional Investment
Chapter 4: Building Capacity — Making a Functional Investment
Chapter 5: Getting Results — Collecting the Return on Investment
Chapter 6: Tying It All Together
Afterword: Final Thoughts
References and Resources

Review

“Occasionally, a book comes along that merges both theory and practice. Anthony Muhammad and Luis Cruz’s Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders is such a book. Muhammad and Cruz combine decades of leadership and change theory with the practical experience that comes from their own highly successful track records in leading both structural and cultural change. This highly practical and readable research-based guide should be in every leader’s toolbox.”
–Robert Eaker, educational consultant and author

“A seminal book that not only inspires leaders to take action but also advances the strategies and approaches necessary to achieve transformational outcomes. A must-read book for any current or aspiring educational leader.”
–Wade Smith, superintendent, Walla Walla Public Schools, Washington

“Too many leaders have substituted planning and processes for results, leaving their teams exhausted and cynical. Muhammad and Cruz provide a constructive alternative with their four-component model of systemic change. Leaders at every level will benefit from the insights and practical ideas in these pages.”
–Douglas Reeves, educational consultant and author; founder, Creative Leadership Solutions
“Time for Change provides insightful and compelling practices that support the complexities of system and organizational change as well as transformational leadership. Muhammad and Cruz present a model for understanding and applying these concepts in meaningful and practical ways.”
–Carla Lobos, executive director of curriculum and instruction, Pasco School District, Washington

About the Author

Anthony Muhammad, PhD, is a much sought-after educational consultant. A practitioner for nearly twenty years, he has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal, and principal and as a high school principal. His Transforming School Culture framework explores the root causes of staff resistance to change.
Dr. Muhammad’s tenure as a practitioner has earned him several awards as both a teacher and a principal. His most notable accomplishment came as principal of Levey Middle School in Southfield, Michigan, a National School of Excellence, where student proficiency on state assessments more than doubled in five years. Dr. Muhammad and the staff at Levey used the Professional Learning Communities at W

Release Date: 05-04-2019

Package Dimensions: 24x251x330