Professional development as a term and as a strategy has run its course. The future of improvement, indeed of the profession itself, depends on a radical shift in how people conceive learning and the conditions under which teachers and students work. In this article, the author discusses five key ideas that together foreshadow his argument and…

This book has been greatly revised and expanded to make it a definitive up-to-date reference for educational innovators involved in educational reform. Sixteen chapters incorporate new theoretical and empirical knowledge about change processes, provide powerful insights into the complexity of reform, and recommend inspiring and practical…

The definition of implementation, its potential determinants and evaluation methods are explained by reviewing research on the process of curriculum and organizational implementation in the schools. (Author/MV)

Change processes at the school building level are considered in order to formulate a number of locally based strategies, derived from research, for significantly improving schools and classrooms. Part I of the three-part analysis examines, through illustration, what is known about successful change processes at the school and classroom levels.…

The Learning Consortium, a multiyear partnership among four large school districts and two higher education institutions, has been working on a new design to integrate teacher development and school development in the service of continuous educational improvement. Since 1988, the Consortium has undertaken various initiatives and programs that are…