Use the following section to find additional resource materials in helping you to plan and make changes within your organization.

Clark, T. and Lacey, R. Learning by Doing: Panasonic Partnerships and Systemic School Reform St. Lucie’s Press, 1997.

• Includes: Partnership Building; Technical Assistance as a Strategy for Systemic Reform; Developing Capacity for Reform; Helping Others Revitalize Public Schooling; Anecdotes of Schools Participating in Partnerships with Panasonic.

Conner, Daryl R. Managing at the Speed of Change

• Discusses eight patterns of how people behave during change and a number of principles for enhancing organizational resilience during change.
• Includes: The nature of change; The process of change; Roles played during change; Resistance to change; Building a commitment to change; Relationships between culture and change; Synergism; The Essential Nature of Resilience (capacity for change without dysfunction).

Evans, Robert The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation Jossey-Bass, 1996.

• Grounding his work in a thorough understanding of human behavior, Evans offers practical management strategies for guiding successful change.

Hall, Brian P. Values Shift: A Guide to Personal and Organizational Transformation Twin Lights Publishing, 1995.

Schlecty, Phillip C. Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform Jossey-Bass, 1997.

• Includes: The Need for Invention; The Technological Imperative; Producing Knowledge Work; Beliefs, Visions, and Mission; Assessing District Capacity; Creating the Capacity to Support Change; Changing the System; Working on the Work; Measuring what Matters Most; Leading the Change Process; Inventing the Future; The Task Before Us.

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