Preface
Part I: Adaptivity
Chapter 1: The Context
Chapter 2: What is an Adaptive School?
Part II Collaboration Matters
Chapter 3: The Importance of Professional Community
Chapter 4: Developing Collaborative Norms
Chapter 5: Two Ways of Talking That Make a Difference for Student
Learning
Part III: Meetings are Teachers’ Work
Chapter 6: Well Run Meetings Enchance Social Capital
Chapter 7: Save Time With Smart Agendas
Chapter 8: The Confident and Skilled Faciliator
Part IV: Resources for Inquiry
Chapter 9: Developing Groups: Six Domains of Maturity
Chapter 10: Developing Groups for Sustainable Change
Chapter 11: Facilitating Data Teams
Part V: Conflict, Change and Communty
Chapter 12: Constructive Conflict
Chapter 13: Capacities for School Change
Chapter 14: Community Doesn’t Just Happen
References
Appendices
Robert J. Garmston presents to educators and managers throughout
the United States as well as in Canada, Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, the Middle East and South America. Emeritus Professor of
Educational Administration at California State University,
Sacramento, Bob has previously been a classroom teacher, principal,
director of instruction and acting superintendent. Co-Developer of
Cognitive Coaching with Dr. Arthur Costa and co-founder of the
Center for Adaptive Schools with Bruce Wellman,
www.thinkingcollaborative.com, his work has been translated into
Arabic, Hebrew, Italian and Spanish. He is director of Facilitation
Associates, a consulting firm specializing in leadership, learning,
personal and organizational development.
Bruce M. Wellman, Co-Director Miravia LLV, has served as a
classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator, and staff developer in
Oberlin, Ohio, and Concord, Massachusetts, public schools. He
consults with school systems and professional groups and
organizations throughout North America, presenting workshops and
courses for teachers and administrators on the patterns and
practices of learning-focused classrooms, learning-focused
conversations for supervisors and mentors, presentation skills, and
facilitating and developing collaborative groups.
In this timely Third Edition of their important ground-breaking
book on Adaptive Schools, Garmston and Wellman have incorporated
new research and recent experience on leadership and organizational
development to flesh out with concrete and practical guidance how
an adaptive school, teacher, principal and administrator can
successfully navigate through the constant, rapid change and future
uncertainty which is our new normal. If we are going to prepare
young people to be successful in this reality, we ourselves have to
learn and practice the skills for acting adaptively and for
creating schools, human systems as they are, that can survive and
thrive under these conditions. This revised edition is a powerful
but not hostile counterweight to the push toward measurement and
short-term accountability that threatens to suck the life out of
individuals, organizations, communities and, yes, schools where
inspiring lifelong learning and capacities for adaptation has to be
the most important goal.
*Marty Linsky, co-author, "Leadership on the Line" and "The
Practice of Adaptive Leadership"*
Through The Adaptive Schools Sourcebook, Garmston and Wellman
develop the language and structures of the learning organization in
a choreography of collaboration, diversity, and energy. The book
provides school leaders with tools, strategies and conditions for a
responsive mindset, setting the stage for perpetual growth,
innovation and a capacity to thrive. This sourcebook makes sense of
the ever-changing landscape and complexity of our schools as we
work to access the limitless power of learning.
*Michael Webb, elementary principal, Airport Heights, Anchorage
Alaska, architecture writer, co-founder*
Whether or not you’ve seen or read The Theory of Everything, this
is 'The Practice of Everything' in educational change. In this
magnum opus, two living legends of coaching, mentoring and
consulting show us the bold designs and build the bricks and mortar
of adaptive change. Adaptive change, they demonstrate brilliantly,
is incremental and disruptive, involves loss and growth, must be
viewed from the balcony and on the dance floor — and is remarkably
complex and incredibly simple all at the same time. Read. Think.
And be inspired to act.
*Andy Hargreaves, Brennan Chair in Education, Boston College;
Adviser to the Premier and Minister of Education of Ontario*
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