{"product_id":"moving-the-rock-isbn-9781119404415","title":"Moving the Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance Praise for \u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone — teachers, parents, administrators, government officials — intent on helping young people succeed not ‘someday,’ but today.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eDrive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Whole New Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Tony Wagner, Harvard Ilab Expert in Residence, and best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Global Achievement Gap\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCreating Innovators”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspiring call to action for all educators.”\u003cbr\u003e—Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Todd Rose, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Average\u003c\/i\u003e; Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education\u003c\/i\u003egives 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt’s no secret that our educational system is stuck.  \u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ewhat we teach\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003ehow we learn\u003c\/i\u003e. Importantly, moving the levers is completely possible today, and in fact is already happening now in many schools.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e•    Creating the Demand for Better Schools\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e•    Building School-Community Learning Laboratories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e•    Encouraging Open Access to Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e•    Fixing How We Measure Student Success\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e•    Teaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e•    and more\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Why, What, and How of Educational Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOvercoming Inertia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere This Book Takes Us\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResources for This Book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat We Will Not Cover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Goal Is Deeper Learning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Couple of Other Points\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLet’s Roll\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One: The Future of School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedesigning the School Operating System\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere the Rock Is Going to Roll\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Will the Learning Experience Change?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Will Schools Function Differently?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Will Our Mission Shift?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Is This Future Inevitable?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two: Lever #1: Create the Demand for Better Schools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating Demand at the National Level\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating Demand at the School Level\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating Demand in the Community\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three:  Lever #2: Build School-Community Learning Laboratories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigning for the Real World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpreading Student Confidence in the Thinkabit Lab\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePartnering with a Giant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoing to Scale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Lever #3: Encourage Open Access to Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Open Educational Resources\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Problems of OER\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Huge Benefits of OER\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBack to Wolfram Alpha: The (Kind of Scary?) Future of Open Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five: Lever #4: Fix How We Measure Student Success and Admit Students to College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe Don’t Measure What We Value\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Health of Our Children\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wrong Results\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCracks in the Dam\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRe-Framing the High School Transcript\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Six: Lever #5: Teach the Teachers What They Really Need to Know\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Legacy Problem\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Models That Work\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seven: Lever #6: Connect, Flow, and Re-think “School”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChange Requires Connectivity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nurture of Networks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrossing Curves\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Cognitosphere: A System of Structured “Flow”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreat Learning Is Relational\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Stepping Stone: Augmented Reality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Game Changer: Virtual Reality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eight: Lever #7: Lead Change from Where You Are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Missing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSharing the Leadership Experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormal Training in Leadership\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScaling Up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow We Will Press This Lever\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Nine: How YOU Will Transform Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTeachers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchool Site and District Administrators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBusiness and Community Leaders\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilanthropists and Foundations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollege and University Presidents, Admissions Officers, and Education and Business School Deans and Faculty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fourth Estate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Ten:  Let’s Roll\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Your Extra Chunky?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpringtime in the Desert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bad, Good, and Great News\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, Trajectory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValuable and Cited Websites\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGRANT LICHTMAN\u003c\/b\u003e is a globally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K-12 education. He is the author of \u003ci\u003e#EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School\u003c\/i\u003e. Grant shares resources, articles, connections with other schools and innovative programs, and his blog, “The Future of K-12 Education,” at www.grantlichtman.com.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education\u003c\/i\u003e gives 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt’s no secret that our educational system is stuck. \u003ci\u003eMoving the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e shows the important roles all of us can play in un-sticking it by moving seven specific levers that don’t require permission from the forces that have created such monumental inertia in the first place. Importantly, moving these levers and changing the focus of education from \u003ci\u003ewhat we teach \u003c\/i\u003eto\u003ci\u003e how we learn\u003c\/i\u003e is completely possible today. In fact, it is already happening now in many schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreating the Demand for Better Schools\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilding School-Community Learning Laboratories\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEncouraging Open Access to Knowledge\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFixing How We Measure Student Success\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTeaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnd more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989657305317,"sku":"NP9781119404415","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119404415.jpg?v=1761784986","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/moving-the-rock-isbn-9781119404415","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}