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    Section I: Defining the Future Context for Systemic School Improvement
  1. Bringing Schools Back to Life: Schools as Living Systems, Margaret Wheatley
  2. Redesigning Leadership for the Third Millennium, Gene R. Carter and Diane G. Berreth
  3. Preparing School Districts for the Great Transitions of Our Times, Karolyn J. Snyder
  4. Redesigning An Entire School System for the 21st Century, Bill Dillon
    Section II: Redefining the Profession to Support Systemic School Improvement
  5. Maryland Ten Years Later: Reform for a New Century, Nancy S. Grasmick
  6. Toward the New American School District, John L. Anderson and Jason Cascarino
  7. Finishing the Race: A District Perspective of Standards-Based Reform, Vicki L. Phillips
  8. Professional Educators for Our Future: Restructuring the Teacher Workforce, Jack D. Dale
    Section III: Redefining the Methodology for Systemic School Improvement
  9. Redesigning School Systems for the 3rd Millennium: A Systems Approach to Improvement. Francis M. Duffy
  10. Whole System Change: New Paths to Innovation; 'Response-ability and Commitment, Charles (Buzz) Blick and Catherine Bradshaw
    Section IV. Real Stories From the Front-Line
    Section V.. Transforming School Culture for the 3rd Millennium, Joseph Roy and David Piperato
  11. School Systems for the Near and Not- Too-Distant Future, Edward F. Pajak and Joe A. Hairston
  12. Leveraging Change Within a School District, John F. Horne, III and Sandra McClelland
  13. Redesigning the Franklin Special School District, Janice M. Shelby and Kay Awalt Musgrove
    Epilogue: Last Call of the Century
    Editor's Biographies / Contributing Author's Biographies / Index



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    Acknowledgments xi
    Introduction xv
    Part I: The Underlying Theory, Research, and History of Knowledge Work Supervision 1
    Chapter 1: The Past Before Us Is Not the Future: A Systems Approach to Improvement 3
    Chapter 2: Teachers as Knowledge Workers and School Systems as Knowledge-Creating Organizations 25
    Chapter 3: A Brief History of School Improvement 41
    Part II: Knowledge Work Supervision Methodology 73
    Chapter 4: Metaprinciples of Systems Redesign 75
    Chapter 5: Phase 1: Building Support for Innovation 103
    Chapter 6: Phase 2: Redesigning for High Performance 117
    Chapter 7: Phase 3: Achieving Stability and Diffusion 135
    Chapter 8: Phase 4: Sustaining School Improvement 149
    Part III: Individual, Team, and System Competencies for Knowledge Work Supervision 169
    Chapter 9: The Key Players and Their Roles: Creating and Using the Power of Teams 171
    Chapter 10: Leadership for Sustained School Improvement 187
    Chapter 11: Improving Individual, Team, and Cluster Performance 207
    Epilogue 229



Just Published!
CREATING SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL SYSTEMS:
Voices from the University, the Field, and the Community
Francis M. Duffy and Jack D. Dale, Editors

This edited volume looks at the problem of redesigning school systems to meet the demands of the 21st century and beyond. Margaret Wheatley and Edward Pajak, among others, address critical questions of how schools as organizations should respond to increasingly complex societal needs.
2001 Hardbound 300pp ISBN 1-929024-22-3 Order #2013 $19.95

A unique approach for transforming entire school districts into higher performing organizations of learners.
REDESIGNING AMERICA’S SCHOOLS:
A Systems Approach to Improvement
Francis M. Duffy, Lynda G. Rogerson, and Charles (Buzz) Blick

Presented in this new resource is a unique, first-of-its-kind, highly innovative approach to improving entire school systems. Called Knowledge Work Supervision (KWS), this approach, say the authors, has the potential to become an effective model for improving entire school systems. Here’s why. Knowledge Work Supervision gives today’s school leaders a systemic, strategic approach for improving entire school districts ... not just pieces of them. In this book the authors tell you what KWS is and how it works, and they show you how to apply KWS to your own school situation to make simultaneous improvement in three key areas: your school system’s core knowledge work process, its social architecture, and its environmental relations. Using the KWS approach, you focus the people toward a participative design.

2000 Hardbound 320pp ISBN 1-929024-12-6 Order #2012 $19.95

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