I have not thrown in the towel on systemic change for our schools. I continue to worry that the atomization of schools—charters, magnet schools—brings about pockets of excellence in urban school districts opposed to improvement in larger numbers.
Michael Fullan has written extensively on his education reform work with the Province of Ontario in Canada and other large districts in the United States and England. He has a new book “Motion Leadership: the Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy.” It is a quick read (78 pages) and it is a nice companion to some of his other books.
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I’m not sure systemic change and atomization are mutually exclusive. My hope is, since atomization is happening anyway, that it will inspire and motivate more comprehensive systemic change and thus “improvement in larger numbers.”