Description
Educators will find more than sixty strategies and reflections to help guide the success of any new or experienced school leader. Beginning with methods of assessing the organization's culture, the book expands on ways to empower staff, students, and community members to embrace change. It is filled with creative approaches that make more out of less, work with individuals from an asset model, and assess results. This book examines the process used by one Colorado school to achieve two, five-year visions and to change its image in the community. Once staff, students, parents, and community stakeholders "catch the vision," programs, people and resources are aligned to promote success. As a result, the school, once slated for the financial chopping block, effectively moved from potential closure to national recognition as an exemplary program. Like its unique programs, most of the visions strategies can be replicated and adapted to any organizational setting. For aspiring or veteran principals or school leaders.
About the Author
Bill Lamperes is the director of Transitional Services in the Peoria Unified School District #11, in Glendale, Arizona. He is engaged in the process of inventing several alternative programs for the district including redesigning summer school, community education, alternative schools, and the creation of a high-tech high school. He has taught elementary, junior high and senior high school social studies, was a social studies curriculum specialist for ten years, and served as a high school principal for twelve years.
Reviews
This book is a story of dreaming high and working hard, pragmatically, and strategically to make dreams become reality for many 'throw-away' kids. This book is a 'must-read' for anyone interested in re-thinking schooling. -- Dr. Ann B. Miser, assistant professor, University of Hawaii at Hilo and co-author of On Becoming a School Leader: A Person-Centered Challenge
This book offers a very comprehensive and practical guide for creating a high performing, meaningful school. It clarifies the role of administrators, teachers, staff, and students....This is a must read and a practical guide for educators committed to creating schools where all students can learn and grow. -- Joe Hendrickson, adjunct professor in Special Education at The University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colorado
By reading Bill's book, you will feel the passion he brings to his work and the systemic changes he is leaving behind with his unorthodox and insightful vision. -- Dr. Suzanne M. Zentner, principal, Indian Mound Middle School, McFarland, Wisconsin
This book is a must read for all current and future school leaders. -- Thomas E. MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant superintendent, Curriculum & Instruction, Peoria Unified School District Peoria/Glendale, Arizona
...uniquely phrased strategies and examples...much more than a guide for our school improvement team in implementing the change process. It is the foundation for focusing our change efforts, beginning with a clear vision that embodies purpose. -- Pat Burckhard, principal, Sunrise Mountain High School in the Peoria Unified School District, Glendale, Arizona
After reading...this...I feel more energized to keep going with the reason that I became a school leader in the first place....I like the concept of asset based classroom observations....there is a list of points for productive information sharing. I intend to post this in my office. The information is...practical and realistic. It is well written and concise and full of quotes and short lists that I want to keep handy. -- Maria Elena Thomas, assistant principal, Billie Martinez Elementary School, Greeley, Colorado
In this book he [Lamperes] describes how he and his faculty changed their school and shares strategies others can use to improve their own organizations....It [Making Change Happen] tells an inspiring success story and contains a wealth of good ideas and practices for anyone who cares about making schools better for students and those who teach them. -- Ann Wescott Dodd * Nassp Bulletin *
...the principal explains how he fixed the school and...turned it into an award-winning jewel....Maybe his story will provide inspiration for your own fixer-upper. -- Rebecca Jones * American School Board Journal *
Bill Lamperes...was the principal of Centennial High School in Fort Collins, Colo., where he coordinated the successful transformation of a school on the brink of closing. His book is filled with practical lessons in direct leadership. New principals and central-office administrators will benefit especially from his specific references on how to court key people and develop professional relationships. Making Change Happen is a well-organized reference starting with the author's commitment to the task at Centennial and ending with his reflections on the cycles of vision and change. * School Administrator *
Book Information
ISBN 9781578861743
Author Bill Lamperes
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Education
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 422g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 155mm * 23mm
About the Author
Bill Lamperes is the director of Transitional Services in the Peoria Unified School District #11, in Glendale, Arizona. He is engaged in the process of inventing several alternative programs for the district including redesigning summer school, community education, alternative schools, and the creation of a high-tech high school. He has taught elementary, junior high and senior high school social studies, was a social studies curriculum specialist for ten years, and served as a high school principal for twelve years.
Reviews
This book is a story of dreaming high and working hard, pragmatically, and strategically to make dreams become reality for many 'throw-away' kids. This book is a 'must-read' for anyone interested in re-thinking schooling. -- Dr. Ann B. Miser, assistant professor, University of Hawaii at Hilo and co-author of On Becoming a School Leader: A Person-Centered Challenge
This book offers a very comprehensive and practical guide for creating a high performing, meaningful school. It clarifies the role of administrators, teachers, staff, and students....This is a must read and a practical guide for educators committed to creating schools where all students can learn and grow. -- Joe Hendrickson, adjunct professor in Special Education at The University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colorado
By reading Bill's book, you will feel the passion he brings to his work and the systemic changes he is leaving behind with his unorthodox and insightful vision. -- Dr. Suzanne M. Zentner, principal, Indian Mound Middle School, McFarland, Wisconsin
This book is a must read for all current and future school leaders. -- Thomas E. MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant superintendent, Curriculum & Instruction, Peoria Unified School District Peoria/Glendale, Arizona
...uniquely phrased strategies and examples...much more than a guide for our school improvement team in implementing the change process. It is the foundation for focusing our change efforts, beginning with a clear vision that embodies purpose. -- Pat Burckhard, principal, Sunrise Mountain High School in the Peoria Unified School District, Glendale, Arizona
After reading...this...I feel more energized to keep going with the reason that I became a school leader in the first place....I like the concept of asset based classroom observations....there is a list of points for productive information sharing. I intend to post this in my office. The information is...practical and realistic. It is well written and concise and full of quotes and short lists that I want to keep handy. -- Maria Elena Thomas, assistant principal, Billie Martinez Elementary School, Greeley, Colorado
In this book he [Lamperes] describes how he and his faculty changed their school and shares strategies others can use to improve their own organizations....It [Making Change Happen] tells an inspiring success story and contains a wealth of good ideas and practices for anyone who cares about making schools better for students and those who teach them. -- Ann Wescott Dodd * Nassp Bulletin *
...the principal explains how he fixed the school and...turned it into an award-winning jewel....Maybe his story will provide inspiration for your own fixer-upper. -- Rebecca Jones * American School Board Journal *
Bill Lamperes...was the principal of Centennial High School in Fort Collins, Colo., where he coordinated the successful transformation of a school on the brink of closing. His book is filled with practical lessons in direct leadership. New principals and central-office administrators will benefit especially from his specific references on how to court key people and develop professional relationships. Making Change Happen is a well-organized reference starting with the author's commitment to the task at Centennial and ending with his reflections on the cycles of vision and change. * School Administrator *
Book Information
ISBN 9781578861743
Author Bill Lamperes
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Education
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 422g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 155mm * 23mm
