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• Systems & Change Theory

  • The Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning (Link)
    as published in The Dance of Change.
  • Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (Link)
    by Peter Senge et al.
  • Why Change is so Challenging for Schools (Link)
    An interview with Peter Senge. By Dennis Sparks.
  • The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change (Link)
    by Andy Hargreaves & Dennis Shirley
  • Thinking in Systems (Link)
    by Donella H. Meadows (recommended by Tracy Benson)
  • Tracing Connections, Voices of Systems Thinkers (Link)
    with a foreword by Jay W. Forrester. Peter Senge's chapter discusses our current education system and how it must change utilizing a systems perspective.
  • The Fifth Discipline (Link)
    An updated version of Peter Senge's classic.
  • Reflectively Weaving to Learn (Word)
    A reflection by Leslie James

• 21st Century Skills & Classrooms

  • 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times (Link)
    by Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel
  • Nevada's 21st Century Partnership Plan (Word)
    Diane Mugford has prepared a document that summarizes Nevada's engagement with the 21st Century Partnership and puts the Exemplars initiative in context.
  • Creating the 21st Century Classroom (Link)
  • The Global Achievement Gap (Link)
    a book by Tony Wagner
  • The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (Link)
  • 21st Century Student Outcomes (Word)
    by Leslie James
  • The Global Achievement Gap (Word)
    excerpts from the intro and conclusion
  • Disrupting Class (Link)
    How Dispruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
  • Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition (PDF)
    Produced by the New Media Consortium (NMC).
  • Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (Link)
    edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

• Transformational Leadership

  • Theory U Tools (Link)
    by Otto Scharmer
  • Presence (Word) (Link)
    by Peter Senge, et.al., plus notes from Jan Morrison
  • Leadership and the Inner Journey (PDF)
    an Interview with Parker Palmer
  • Center for Courage & Renewal (Link)
  • Solving Tough Problems (Word) (Link)
    by Adam Kahane
  • Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn (Link)
    An NSDC article on improving school quality through principal professional development.
  • Connecting to Source: The U-Process (PDF)
    by Zaid Hassan
  • Addressing the Blind Spot of Our Time (Link)
    An executive summary of Theory U, by Otto Scharmer
  • Theory of Change (Word)
    a paper by Leslie James

• Supporting Educator Professional Learning

  • Professional Learning In The Learning Profession (Link)
    A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad (published by NSDC)
  • Professional Learning in the Learning Profession (Link)
    The full technical report for the NSDC document listed above.
  • How Nations Invest in Teachers (Link)
    High-Achieving Nations Treat Their Teachers as Professionals By Ruth Chung Wei, Alethea Andree, and Linda Darling-Hammond Educational Leadership, ASCD, February 2009
  • Staff Development for Teachers Deemed Fragmented (Link)
    by Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week, Feb. 11, 2009 (Vol. 28, #21, p. 7)

• Reflective Writing

  • Reflective Writing Rubric (Link)
    From Read, Write, Think.

• Time Management

  • Time Management and Leadership (Link)