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Understanding the Dynamics of Change Affecting Schools
Description: The future can be a difficult concept to work with in educational settings because the daily routines overshadow our abilities to think forward. Many feel that looking at the future is no different from the astrologer predicting one’s day. The problem with that assumption is a lack of ability to see relevance of the process to those daily routines. If you are to understand and develop strategies to cope with change, then you must study trends to draw out possible scenarios to help your decision-making abilities. If there is one trend that has and will continue to affect the world in general and education specifically, it is informational technologies and globalization.
Six Skills in Dealing with the Uncertainty of Change
Description: Change is a constant in life. It affects us on multiple levels: personal, organizational, local community, regional, globally, and environmentally. As a leader it is very important that you have a sense of the dynamics of change in order to understand its effects upon people that you have responsibility for leading.

Educational Reform - Lessons from England
Description: An Interview with Sir Michael Barber - Sir Michael Barber was one of the lead architects of education reform efforts in England focused on improving student learning in literacy and math in early elementary school, efforts to turn around failing schools, and teacher training and pay reforms.