There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all who profit by the new order. This lukewarmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries, who have law in their favor, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not believe in anything new until they have had an actual experience of it.

Machiavelli

Notes and Synopses

• Postman: The End of Education
• Groupthink: the video
• Bolman & Deal: Leading with Soul
• Rost: Leadership for the 21st Century
• Decision Making (book chapter)
• Wheatley: Leadership & the New Science
• Gardner: Leading Minds

Products

1. Professional Goals Statement Approved at second annual review, May 1996 and updated September 5, 1996.
2. Research Critique: Heitmuller, P., Leuzinger, M., McAfee, L., Smith, R., & Pajak, E. (1993). Dimensions of professional growth for educational leaders. Journal of Staff Development, 14 (1), 28-31.
3. Research Critique: Lytle, J.H. (1996, June). The inquiring manager. Phi Delta Kappan, 664-670.

Important Links

• Key dimensions of leadership for sustaining reform. Critical characteristics of school reform leaders are: Partnership and voice, Vision and values, Knowledge and daring, Savvy and persistence, and Personal qualities.
• DuBay: What is Professionalism? You get respect by exercising power and authority.
• Leithwood: The move toward transformational leadership. His emphasis is collaborative leadership.
• Mitchell & Tucker: Leadership as a way of thinking. There are 3 viable alternatives to transformational leadership, depending on your context.
• Jenlink & Carr: Conversation as a medium for change in education. There are 4 types of discourse: dialectic and discussion (transacting), dialogue (transforming), and design (transcending).
• Isaacs: The process and potential of dialogue in social change. Isaacs develops a four-module theory of the evolution of dialogue. Highly theoretical, very insightful.

Contact Information

• L.A. Napier
• Bob Rehm

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