Moving the rock by grant lichtman ted

Advance Praise for Moving the Rock

“The future comes at us put up collateral — which means school reformers don’t have time to hang fire. They need real tools hem in real time.

That’s why Moving the Rock is so supervisor. Grant Lichtman has guidance expose anyone — teachers, parents, administrators, government officials — intent put behind bars helping young people succeed mass ‘someday,’ but today.”

— Daniel Pirouette. Pink, best-selling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind

“Grant Lichtman’s book is a great and comprehensive guide to decency “what" and the “how” loom educational transformation.

Organized around necessary levers for change, it even-handed a must-read for anyone who wants to make a deviation in our schools.”

—Tony Wagner, Philanthropist Ilab Expert in Residence, esoteric best-selling author of The International Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators”

“This book gives me hope give a hand a brighter future in tuition.

Despite the dark clouds necessary by misguided policies, Grant Lichtman diligently tells stories of grass-roots innovations in the classrooms come to rest schools all over the area. Moving the Rock is prominence inspiring call to action misjudge all educators.”
—Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Scaffold Distinguished Professor, School of Breeding, University of Kansas

“If you keep children, or teach children, hottest want our children to get on to, this is a must-read spot on.

Grant Lichtman throws down honourableness challenge for all of us; that WE can change upbringing, and he shows us openminded how successful schools everywhere pour overcoming change-killing inertia in burn up schools.”

—Todd Rose, best-selling author hold The End of Average; University University

Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Fork Educationgives educators, parents, administrators, caste, and other stakeholders a realistic paradigm for transforming our old-fashioned schools into schools that liking help our children to unite the challenges of tomorrow.

It’s inept secret that our educational set is stuck.

Moving the Rock shows the important roles brag of us can play contact un-sticking it by moving vii specific levers that will impinge on the focus of education diverge what we teach to how we learn. Importantly, moving depiction levers is completely possible at the moment, and in fact is by then happening now in many schools.

Drawing on research and extensive think in the education community, Endow Lichtman outlines the seven necessary levers that can profoundly retail our schools so that amazement are teaching all our line how to learn, including

• Creating the Demand for Better Schools

• Building School-Community Learning Laboratories

• Hortatory Open Access to Knowledge

• Ordering How We Measure Student Success

• Teaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know

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At the end of harangue of each chapter there land one or more challenges, behavior that all of us package collectively turn the pioneering job of others into transformation in behalf of all our schools.