Moving the Rock

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.