Dream! Create! Sustain!

Francis M. Duffy is a professor of change leadership in education at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. He is the founding editor of Rowman & Littlefield Education's Leading Systemic School Improvement Series and has written numerous books.

Too many educational organizations as well as elected officials view educational reform through the lens of: increase focus, work harder, and reward the best who do so. This paradigm doesn’t work or, at best, doesn’t work on the scale that is necessary. We MUST change from the lens of reform to lens of transformation. Francis M. Duffy agues for a revolution—a revolution of paradigm shifts to create educational systems for the twenty-first-century global, interdependent environment in which we will either thrive or die. Duffy builds on his prior writings of transformational change and about leaders with courage, passion, and vision to create a framework to revolutionize education. The question before us all is 'Will we act?'

• Part 1 Prologue to RevolutionPart 2 Foundational Knowledge for Transforming School SystemsChapter 3 Honoring the Past While Moving Toward the FutureChapter 4 Strapping Wings on a Caterpillar and Calling It a Butterfly: When Systemic Change Is Not SystemicChapter 5 Leadership for Transformational ChangeChapter 6 Chaos Theory and the Sciences of ComplexityPart 7 Mastering AwarenessChapter 8 Paradigms, Mental Models, and Mindsets: Triple Barriers to Transformational Change in School SystemsChapter 9 Scanning the External EnvironmentPart 10 Mastering Deliberate IntentionChapter 11 The Power of Deliberate IntentionChapter 12 Shaping the Future of Your School SystemChapter 13 The Learner-Centered Paradigm of EducationPart 14 Mastering MethodologyChapter 15 Systemic Transformation in Public School SystemsChapter 16 Learning Management SystemsChapter 17 The SST ProtocolChapter 18 Seven Common Objections to Transformational ChangePart 19 The Future of Leadership for Transformational ChangeChapter 20 The AECT FutureMinds InitiativeChapter 21 A National Framework of Professional Standards for Change Leadership in EducationPart 22 Epilogue