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More About This Title Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE can Press to Transform Education
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Advance Praise for Moving the Rock
“The future comes at us fast — which means school reformers don’t have time to wait. They need real tools in real time. That’s why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone — teachers, parents, administrators, government officials — intent on helping young people succeed not ‘someday,’ but today.”
— Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind
“Grant Lichtman’s book is a clear and comprehensive guide to the “what" and the “how” of educational transformation. Organized around essential levers for change, it is a must-read for anyone who wants to make a difference in our schools.”
—Tony Wagner, Harvard Ilab Expert in Residence, and best-selling author of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators”
“This book gives me hope for a brighter future in education. Despite the dark clouds imposed by misguided policies, Grant Lichtman diligently tells stories of grass-roots innovations in the classrooms and schools all over the world. Moving the Rock is an inspiring call to action for all educators.”
—Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas
“If you have children, or teach children, or want our children to succeed, this is a must-read book. Grant Lichtman throws down the challenge for all of us; that WE can change education, and he shows us just how successful schools everywhere are overcoming change-killing inertia in our schools.”
—Todd Rose, best-selling author of The End of Average; Harvard University
Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Educationgives educators, parents, administrators, students, and other stakeholders a clear paradigm for transforming our outmoded schools into schools that will help our children to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
It’s no secret that our educational system is stuck. Moving the Rock shows the important roles all of us can play in un-sticking it by moving seven specific levers that will change the focus of education from what we teach to how we learn. Importantly, moving the levers is completely possible today, and in fact is already happening now in many schools.
Drawing on research and extensive experience in the education community, Grant Lichtman outlines the seven essential levers that can profoundly change our schools so that we are teaching all our children how to learn, including
• Creating the Demand for Better Schools
• Building School-Community Learning Laboratories
• Encouraging Open Access to Knowledge
• Fixing How We Measure Student Success
• Teaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know
• and more
At the end of each of each chapter there are one or more challenges, ways that all of us can collectively turn the pioneering work of others into transformation for all our schools.
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GRANT LICHTMAN is a globally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K-12 education. He is the author of #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education, and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School. Grant shares resources, articles, connections with other schools and innovative programs, and his blog, "The Future of K-12 Education," at www.grantlichtman.com.
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword
Introduction
The Why, What, and How of Educational Change
Overcoming Inertia
Where This Book Takes Us
Resources for This Book
What We Will Not Cover
The Goal Is Deeper Learning
A Couple of Other Points
Let’s Roll
Chapter One: The Future of School
Redesigning the School Operating System
Where the Rock Is Going to Roll
How Will the Learning Experience Change?
How Will Schools Function Differently?
How Will Our Mission Shift?
Why Is This Future Inevitable?
Chapter Two: Lever #1: Create the Demand for Better Schools
Creating Demand at the National Level
Creating Demand at the School Level
Creating Demand in the Community
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Three: Lever #2: Build School-Community Learning Laboratories
Designing for the Real World
Spreading Student Confidence in the Thinkabit Lab
Partnering with a Giant
Going to Scale
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Four: Lever #3: Encourage Open Access to Knowledge
The Rise of Open Educational Resources
The Problems of OER
The Huge Benefits of OER
Back to Wolfram Alpha: The (Kind of Scary?) Future of Open Knowledge
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Five: Lever #4: Fix How We Measure Student Success and Admit Students to College
We Don’t Measure What We Value
The Health of Our Children
The Wrong Results
Cracks in the Dam
Re-Framing the High School Transcript
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Six: Lever #5: Teach the Teachers What They Really Need to Know
The Legacy Problem
New Models That Work
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Seven: Lever #6: Connect, Flow, and Re-think “School”
Change Requires Connectivity
The Nurture of Networks
Crossing Curves
Welcome to the Cognitosphere: A System of Structured “Flow”
Great Learning Is Relational
The Stepping Stone: Augmented Reality
The Game Changer: Virtual Reality
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Eight: Lever #7: Lead Change from Where You Are
What Is Missing
Sharing the Leadership Experience
Formal Training in Leadership
Scaling Up
How We Will Press This Lever
Chapter Nine: How YOU Will Transform Education
Teachers
School Site and District Administrators
Parents
Students
Business and Community Leaders
Philanthropists and Foundations
College and University Presidents, Admissions Officers, and Education and Business School Deans and Faculty
The Fourth Estate
Chapter Ten: Let’s Roll
What Is Your Extra Chunky?
Springtime in the Desert
The Bad, Good, and Great News
Finally, Trajectory
Valuable and Cited Websites
Bibliography
Index
