What's Worth Fighting for in the Principalship
Michael Fullan's latest book - click 'Download order form' below for details and the order form
In the 12 years since the publication of the first edition of this bestseller, policymakers and school reformers have increasingly pointed to the school principal as the most important agent for needed change in our schools. With this recognition, principals are now expected to do even more in their already overloaded schedules. With a sense of urgency that will spur principals into action, this new edition is more targeted, more specific, and provides more concrete examples from the field to reflect a new agenda for school leaders. In this edition, Michael Fullan incisively characterizes the current state of the principalship and furnishes updated Action Guidelines to help principals and district leaders work for meaningful change. This much-awaited, fully revised edition will help principals fight for:
- Deep and creative learning for all students—not just minimum competency in tested achievement
- Professional learning communities that respect and engage teachers in the quest to improve learning
- Sustainable leadership that creates lasting improvement—rather than quick fixes that fade all too fast after early promise
2006 PISA results
Australian results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 were released at 20:00 AEDT on 4 December 2007. Visit the ACER website to get all the up to date information at www.acer.edu.au/news/2007_PISA.html
What's New
What Does the Future of Management Look Like to You?
Harvard Business: Gary Hamel Management 2.0
Posted on September 26, 2007 11:39 AM
It's hard to imagine how something that has changed so little over the past few decades—in this case, the hierarchical, bureaucratic management system that governs life in large organizations—might change dramatically in the years to come. Nevertheless, a while back my friend Tom Stewart, the editor of Harvard Business Review, and I posted the following question online:
Looking twenty years out into the future, what one characteristic—principle, practice, or structural feature—of the “modern” industrial organization will appear to be the most antiquated or anachronistic?
Join the blog at http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hamel/2007/09/what_does_the_future_of_manage.html and read what others from around the world are saying.
How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top
A new report examines the common characteristics of school systems producing
students who perform well on international tests.
In the Balance: The Future of Australia's Primary Schools
The Australia Primary Principals Association's latest research project,
undertaken by a team led by Professor Max Angus, Edith Cowan University, has
been released. It is the report of an investigation into the state of
Australian primary schooling, based mainly on evidence provided by staff
from a random sample of 160 primary schools.
Click here to download the full report (2.24Mb PDF file).
Click here to download the Executive Summary of the Report. (PDF - 1089 Kb)
