In
Turnaround Leadership, Michael
Fullan-an internationally recognized leader on educational
reform-expands the definition of organizational turnaround and
shows how leaders can convert even the worst situation into an
opportunity to shake-up and rejuvenate their schools. Indeed he
goes beyond turnaround schools to show how entire systems can be
transformed.
Fullan examines the dynamics of what makes societies-and
education systems-healthy or sick. He identifies the positive
things turnaround schools do to get off the critical list, and
explores what it takes to motivate large numbers of people to go
beyond short-term solutions in order to achieve fundamental,
sustainable reform. Ultimately, Turnaround Leadership focuses on
the critical role of leadership-not the Lone Ranger leader who
rides into town and saves a single school, but leaders whose very
actions change the systems they work in.
This is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in
Education-a series designed to meet thedemand for new ideas and
insights about leadership in schools.
"In Turnaround Leadership Michael
Fullan goes beyond a critique of contemporary practice to offer
specific, comprehensive strategies to create schools that become
continuously more effective by building the capacity and the
confidence of the educators within them. This is a must read for
anyone serious about meaningful school improvement."
-Richard Dufour, educational author and consultant
"Michael Fullan moves with authority to identify the kind of
leadership needed to turn around our schools. His turnaround
solutions are not the product of armchair contemplation, but have
emerged out of the sweat and tears of actual systemic reform
efforts."
-Peter Hill, secretary general of the Hong Kong examinations and
Assessment Authority
"Michael Fullan''s work on leadership is powerful not just
because it is evidence-based but because it is actionable?"
-Sir Michael Barber, McKinsey and Company, London, England
"Fullan goes far beyond the rhetoric of moral purpose to lay out
in stark terms what he rightly calls the ''real reform
agenda.''"
-David Hopkins, HSBC chair of international leadership, Institute
of Education, University of London