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The Devil Is in the Details

System Solutions for Equity, Excellence, and Student Well-Being

Our world needs a major overhaul in how we deal with climate and inequity. This book shows how we can re-think the education system and contribute to dramatic transformation for the betterment of all.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781544317977
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2020
  • Page Count: 216
  • Publication date: March 12, 2020

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Develop equity, excellence, and well-being across the whole system! The world is troubled!

We need to combine a moral imperative and a system transformation to survive for the better. Education is crucial to our future but needs to play a more direct role in shaping our future. The Devil is in the Details shows how we can re-think the education system and its three levels of leadership—local, middle, and top—so that each level can contribute to dramatic turnaround for education and society. The focus is on examining details to ensure effective actions are taken, rather than assuming large pronouncements and policies will drive change. Readers will find:

• Details and analysis about successful systems in California, Ontario, and Australia
• Ideas for how leaders at all levels can take steps to begin
• Vignettes, actions and strategies that illustrate how to address equity, excellence and well-being

With the goal of transforming the culture of learning to develop greater equity, excellence, and student wellbeing, this book will help you liberate the system and maintain focus.
Author(s)

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Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan served as Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. He received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012 and holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His ‘interim autobiography’, Surreal Change, covers his work to 2018. Michael and his colleagues are now working diligently on field-based comprehensive system change in several countries. This work operates under the umbrella of what they call the ‘shared humanity paradigm’ —Equity, Engagement, Excellence--Deep change that integrates local (school and community), middle (district/regional), and state (policy) entities.

Fullan’s favorite method of learning is to partner with groups that are engaged with change; and to learn together with them. (And then to write another book about the experiences, and what was learned).

Michael Fullan’s latest books are: Nuance (2019), Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration (with Mark Edwards, 2022), The Principal 2.0 (2023), and The Drivers (with Joanne Quinn, 2023).

For more information on books, articles, videos, podcasts please go to: www.michaelfullan.ca



Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


PART I: SYSTEM CHANGE


Chapter 1: The Nature of the Beast

The March of Evolution

The Dramatic Toll of Rising Inequity

The Serious Deficiency of Current Policies

Conclusion

Chapter 2: The Emergence of System Solutions

The Limits of Complexity

The Phenomenology of Good System Change

Transition Time

Leadership From the Middle

Conclusion

PART II: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS


Chapter 3: The School: The Leading Edge of Change

Living Locally

The New Moral Imperative

Equity

Excellence

Well-Being

How Does a School Improve in These Ways?

Conclusion

Chapter 4: The Middle: Fuel and Glue

Who Is “the Middle”?

Successful Districts: Still in the Minority

More System Change

Guidelines for the Middle

Conclusion

Chapter 5: The Macro: Direction and Liberation

Ontario, Canada; California, United States; Victoria, Australia: Good Start-Ups at Different Places in the Learning

Beware of (Seductive) Distractors

Layered, Connected Autonomy

Conclusion

PART III: THE NEW WORLD


Chapter 6: Where Do We Go From Here?

Details, Details, Details

System Change

The Global South and the Global North

A Necessary Convergence

Conclusion: As Human as You Get

References


Index


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


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