Leadership for School Change

Mike’s Experience

• Developed the Leadership for School Change model, based on leadership lessons learned from MLTI and creating schools designed to motivate kids.
• Co-designed and implemented several school change initiatives including creating motivation-focused contract and alternative schools, facilitating change-focused design teams, and co-authoring and supporting the School District of Philadelphia’s $7.5M Magnet School Grant.
• Worked with several schools, districts and organizations to both implement shared leadership and worked toward creating a community shared vision for learning (including a district in Wyoming, regional meetings in Maine, a Maine middle school, and MLTI).
• Authored Moving the Needle: Proven Strategies for (Successfully) Implementing School Change, soon to be published by AMLE.
• Designed and led numerous workshops on shared leadership, design teams, and leadership for school change.
• Led GEAR UP Maine’s Shared Leadership efforts.

Some of Mike’s Writing on the Topic

• Moving the Needle: Proven Strategies for (Successfully) Implementing School Change, published by AMLE.
• Creating a Shared Vision
• Shared Leadership 
• Positive Pressure and Support
• Not All At Once: Breaking Your Initiative into Phases
• Working Effectively with a Diverse Staff
• Honoring Controversy
• Getting a School’s Initiative Back on Track
• 18 Reasons We Need More Psychology (And Less Logic) In Our Education Thinking