Learning to Learn: South Australia
At the heart of the Learning to Learn Project is the concept of moving beyond reform to redesign.

The Role of the Head in School Improvement.
Michael Fullan, Background paper for the National College of School Leadership England, June, 2000. It has often been observed that the head of the school is a key factor in how effective the school is. In this brief paper I will characterize the nature of school improvement in relation to the role of the head, and then raise questions about how we could produce more effective leadership.

The National Forum to accelerate Middle Gradesl reform
The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform is an alliance of over 60 educators, researchers, national associations, and officers of professional organizations and foundations committed to promoting the academic performance and healthy development of young adolescents.

Educational Systems Design
Collection of resources to assist people trying to bring important changes to schools.

Educational Reform Implementation: A Co-Constructed Process
Formulating the reform implementation process as a "conditional matrix" coupled with qualitative research is helpful in making sense of the complex and often messy process of school reform.

School Improvement
At McREL, our staff of highly respected educators and researchers focuses on providing the highest quality, field-tested, research-based products and services available in PreK-16 education today. Many resources and links.

The Question of the Student In Educational Reform
As the would-be beneficiaries of reform, students, and their interaction with the educational system, have been almost entirely overlooked in the pursuit of educational excellence.

Islands of Hope in a Sea of Dreams
A Research Report on the Eight Schools That Received the USA National Award for Model Professional Development

Pathways to School Improvement
The Trip Planner Survey Tool helps prioritize your use of resources within Pathways Web Site based on your responses to any or all 11 surveys. Each survey comprises about 25 statements that invite you to think critically about the topic as it applies to your school or district.

Education Reforms and Students at Risk - Ch11 - Toward Schools as High Reliability Organisations
If we are to address the needs of all children at risk, whole systems must work with levels of reliability that surpass the U.S. experience to date.

The Role of Leadership in Sustaining School Reform
This report summarizes principal's answers, retells some of their leadership stories, and explains some of the strategies for self-assessment that these innovators use themselves or think might be worth using in approaching school reform .

The Role of Leadership and Professional Development in a Design Approach to School Development, Hill & Crevola, Melbourne University
There have been many attempts at raising standards by one means or another, but reformers have invariably found that it is difficult to improve student learning in a sustained way across more than a handful of schools at any one time.

SEDL - School Change
SEDL carried out two projects that hold significant progress. The first involves the creation of communities of continuous inquiry and improvement as an infrastructure to support improvements in schools. The second focuses on comprehensive school reform, improvement efforts that involve deeper and more extensive change .

Coordinating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies for Educational Reform, Michael Fullan
First, I review briefly some evidence that corroborates the proposition that neither centralized nor decentralized change strategies work. Second, I present the conceptional and empirical case that a blend of the two strategies is essential. Finally, I consider two levels of the problem - school-district, and school/district-state.

MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School and Middle Grades Reform
Articles, links and many resources for Middle Schooling

Issues About Change: School Reform
Issues...about Change is a series of briefing papers designed to address issues related to the implementation of comprehensive, long-term models for school reform.

Coalition of Essential Schools
The Coalition sees school reform as an inescapably local phenomenon, the outcome of groups of people working together, building a shared vision and drawing on the community's strengths, history, and local flavor.

Restructuring Education: Maturing Outcomes: Arthur L. Costa, Robert J. Garmston
In this article we present a systematic map of educational outcomes, intended for use by educational leaders. The map represents increasingly broader levels of curricular and instructional decision making.

School Improvement Research Series: Research You Can Use
This series include Topical Syntheses of research findings and bibliographic information on special topics.

Why Change
This module provides information and tools that you can use as an education leader to involve your colleagues and communities in building successful change practices in your district or school.