Garth Nichols’ review of Nuance puts into perspective how well suited Michael Fullan’s writing is even in these times of disruption and uncertainty. Leadership is as important now as it ever was and this book offers key concepts and characteristics of what ‘Nuanced Leaders’ need to know to make a difference.
Garth Nichols
Cohort 21 Member Blog
April 2, 2020
The battle of the century: Catastrophe versus evolutionary nirvana
Michael Fullan
AEL 42 Issue 1: Lead Article
The first edition of Leading in a Culture of Change (LCC) was published in 2001. It was the first book that I wrote for education and business leaders alike. Several readers contacted me and said that the book made them realize how much they had failed to appreciate culture as foundational.
Now, 20 years later I re-wrote all of the chapters and updated them with the latest research, including that of our own.
Part Two: Education Week Blog
Peter DeWitt’s Finding Common Ground
… Read more Most Examples of Deep Learning Are Not Deep Enough
Part One: Education Week Blog
Peter DeWitt’s Finding Common Ground
… Read more The Unity of the Human Race: Our Precarious Future
Going Deeper:
What today’s teens need most from schools is learning that fosters engagement and connection. That may mean changing everything.
Teens are disengaged in school and need learning environments that foster engagement, connection, and a greater sense of purpose. The most important change required in education is cultural. Are high schools doing enough to help students engage with meaningful challenges?
To read the article, click here.
Michael Fullan
Mag Gardner
Max Drummy
ASCD
Educational Leadership
May 2019,
Break the cycle of surface-level change and failure
How do leaders become clearer as complexity increases? We live in a world where decisions require judgment, getting people on board, drawing on local knowledge, ingenuity, and commitment. As leaders, how do you get beneath surface-level change to tackle complex challenges with depth and clarity.
Nuance is the answer.
Michael Fullan returns with an eminently readable, compelling and practical guide on the three habits of nuance: joint determination,
… Read more nuance: why some leaders succeed and others fail
Press Release
California on the Right Track to Improve Education
with Recommended Strategies for Improvement by Michael Fullan
In Taking Stock: Leadership from the Middle, Michael Fullan and Santiago Rincón-Gallardo report on how the transformation of California’s education sector is faring in terms of its strengths, weaknesses and accomplishments.
California’s approach, called by some The California Way, is expressed in the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and its companions the Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs).
… Read more California is on the Right Track to Improve Education
Il me fait plaisir de vous transmettre la version française de Find your own Finland, Créer sa propre Finlande. Le texte et le diagramme ont été révisés et son équipe et il peuvent être utilisés dans vos organisations.
Merci à Claude St-Cyr, Directeur de projet, Foundation Lucie et André Chagnon et Marc Denis pour la traduction.
En collaboration avec Google, Michael a écrit un blog pour Google’s Keyword, leur destination centrale pour les dernières nouvelles mises à jour et des histoires à l’intérieur de Google.
Developing Humanity:
Education’s Emerging Role
This 3-page article, written by Michael Fullan for Principal Connections, the Catholic Principals’ Council, addresses declining student engagement in traditional classrooms, the lure of the digital world, and millennials’ motivation to help humanity. The new leadership required is emerging at the school, district and system levels, in part through the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL) and six factors outlined in the article.
December, 2016
