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Direct linkFahey, Kevin; Breidenstein, Angela; Ippolito, Jacy; Hensley, Frances – Teachers College Press, 2019
This book is for educators who believe that schools need to be improved and are hopeful that real change can be achieved. The authors argue that if educators want to create more equitable, socially just, and learner-focused schools, then they need a more robust, transformational theory of school change--an UnCommon Theory. After describing the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Theories, Educational Improvement, Standards
Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Blum-DeStefano, Jessica – Harvard Education Press, 2016
In "Tell Me So I Can Hear You", Eleanor Drago-Severson and Jessica Blum-DeStefano show how education leaders can learn to deliver feedback in a way that strengthens relationships as well as performance and builds the capacity for growth. Drawing on constructive-developmental theory, the authors describe four stages of adult growth and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teachers, Leaders, Capacity Building
Drago-Severson, Eleanor – Harvard Education Press, 2012
How can we prepare practicing and aspiring education leaders for the complex, adaptive challenges they face? In "Helping Educators Grow," Eleanor Drago-Severson presents a new approach to leadership development. Too often, she argues, we teach leadership development the same way we teach world history: just the facts. Instead, we need to…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Management Development, Capacity Building, Trust (Psychology)
Freedman, Mervin; And Others – 1979
The importance of considering institutional educational goals, organizational functioning, and adult personality development in designing faculty development programs is addressed. After a brief historical sketch of faculty development and the situation of the faculty member today. ethnographic descriptions of two universities and a liberal arts…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Case Studies, College Environment, College Faculty
Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Ed.; Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr., Ed.; Rumbaut, Ruben G., Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2005
"On the Frontier of Adulthood" reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Pathways into…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Public Policy, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Ferrini, Paul; Parker, L. Allen – 1978
As a product of the Career Change Project by the Technical Education Research Centers, this book describes specific career change programs currently operated by a variety of organizations and includes other information relevant to career change. The book is divided into six major sections. The first section is an introduction which includes…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs
