How Change Takes Place
These links are of interest to those who want to know more about how change takes place.
- Change or Die
- Alan Deutschman highlights the importance of speaking to people's feelings and being positive in order to effect change.
- The Tipping Point
- Malcolm Gladwell explains how seemingly small changes can make a big difference in spreading ideas and effecting change.
- How Change Happens and How It Doesn't
- Susan Rosenthal explains that providing social support to overcome feelings of powerlessness, presenting problems as solvable and patience are important for effecting change
- Social Movements: A Summary of What Works
- Charles Dobson identifies the factors that make social movements (e.g., civil liberties movement, don't drink and drive campaign etc.) successful.
- Common Ground Principles
- Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert discusses the value of a shared framework based on commonly agreed principles to bring about change.
- Facilitating Innovations in the Classroom
- The Bergland Center Summer Institute explains the factors that facilitate teacher implementation of innovations in the classroom.
- Keeping Early Adopters of a Change
- Devising strategies for keeping the early adopters of an innovation can help the innovation spread widely and go mainstream.
- 12 Steps for Policy Change
- The Center for Global Development outlines 12 steps for effecting policy change.
- The Effect of Political Shifts
- Larry Cuban explains how political shifts in wider society can have a profound influence on change initiatives in schools.
