Bøker av Grant Lichtman

Your school needs a powerful value proposition that shouts to families, "Pick us!" from all of the options they have. Schools that increase their value proposition over time will have a greater chance of survival; those that fail to boost their perceived value will tend towards failure. One profound lessons sticks out: the tools of change are neither difficult to understand nor complicated to implement. The difference between schools that thrive and those that may wilt or die during this period of evolution is not just about understanding how your school can thrive; it’s about actually doing it. It takes time and sustained commitment. That part is up to you.

Advance Praise for Moving the Rock ΓÇ£The future comes at us fast ΓÇö which means school reformers donΓÇÖt have time to wait. They need real tools in real time.  ThatΓÇÖs why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone ΓÇö teachers, parents, administrators, government officials ΓÇö intent on helping young people succeed not ΓÇÿsomeday,ΓÇÖ but today.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇö Daniel H. Pink, bestΓÇôselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind ΓÇ£Grant LichtmanΓÇÖs book is a clear and comprehensive guide to the ΓÇ£what" and the ΓÇ£howΓÇ¥ of educational transformation. Organized around essential levers for change, it is a mustΓÇôread for anyone who wants to make a difference in our schools.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöTony Wagner, Harvard Ilab Expert in Residence, and bestΓÇôselling author of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating InnovatorsΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£This book gives me hope for a brighter future in education. Despite the dark clouds imposed by misguided policies, Grant Lichtman diligently tells stories of grassΓÇôroots innovations in the classrooms and schools all over the world. Moving the Rock is an inspiring call to action for all educators.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöYong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas ΓÇ£If you have children, or teach children, or want our children to succeed, this is a mustΓÇôread book.  Grant Lichtman throws down the challenge for all of us; that WE can change education, and he shows us just how successful schools everywhere are overcoming changeΓÇôkilling inertia in our schools.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöTodd Rose, bestΓÇôselling author of The End of Average; Harvard University Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Educationgives educators, parents, administrators, students, and other stakeholders a clear paradigm for transforming our outmoded schools into schools that will help our children to meet the challenges of tomorrow. ItΓÇÖs no secret that our educational system is stuck.  Moving the Rock shows the important roles all of us can play in unΓÇôsticking it by moving seven specific levers that will change the focus of education from what we teach to how we learn. Importantly, moving the levers is completely possible today, and in fact is already happening now in many schools. Drawing on research and extensive experience in the education community, Grant Lichtman outlines the seven essential levers that can profoundly change our schools so that we are teaching all our children how to learn, including ΓÇó    Creating the Demand for Better Schools ΓÇó    Building SchoolΓÇôCommunity Learning Laboratories ΓÇó    Encouraging Open Access to Knowledge ΓÇó    Fixing How We Measure Student Success ΓÇó    Teaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know ΓÇó    and more At the end of each of each chapter there are one or more challenges, ways that all of us can collectively turn the pioneering work of others into transformation for all our schools.

Your formula for managing innovation and transforming learning #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education is a refreshing change from the negativity so common in the world of education today.