Guiding schools through significant change is one of the toughest challenges educational leaders face, but learning
from the examples of those who have succeeded can make it less daunting. In Leading Change in Your School, distinguished
author and researcher Douglas B. Reeves offers lessons learned through his work with educators in thousands of
schools around the world and presents real-life examples of leaders who have met the challenge of change head-on�with
impressive results for their schools and districts. Readers will also find practical resources for engaging their
colleagues in change initiatives.
Expanding on a number of his columns in the journal Educational Leadership, Reeves offers insights and recommendations
in four areas:
� Creating conditions for change, including assessments to determine personal and organizational readiness for
change;
� Planning change, including cautionary notes about strategic planning;
� Implementing change, including the importance of moving from rhetoric to day-to-day reality; and
� Sustaining change, including the need to reorient priorities and values so that individual convenience gives
way to a shared sense of the greater good.