Michael Fullan - The New Meaning of Educational Change, Fifth Edition

For many years the First Edition of The New Meaning of Educational Change was my bible for understanding how to improve teaching and learning for all students within complex school systems. The books Fourth Edition continues and deepens that tradition by featuring a knowledge-base that Michael Fullan describes as more profound and accessible.

Dennis Sparks , emeritus executive director, National Staff Development Council

This new edition of a classic and highly influential text significantly extends Fullans remarkable efforts to synthesize and make useful what is known about successful educational change processes.

Ken Leithwood , OISE/University of Toronto

Michael Fullan is at the peak of his knowledge and influence on change and reform in education. There is a sense of urgency in the Fourth Edition because a system-wide breakthrough has not been made at the level of the student and classroom, even though the knowledge of how to do it is at hand. Those who seek to achieve such a breakthrough must read this book.

Brian J. Caldwell , managing director, Educational Transformations Pty Ltd

For those of us committed to teaching, researching, facilitating, and leading school and school system change, Michael Fullan has served as trailblazer, guide, and mentor. This Fourth Edition significantly deepens that legacy.

Lew Smith , director, National Principals Leadership Institute, Fordham University Graduate School of Education

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Copyright 2016 by Teachers College, Columbia University

Quotes from Mel Ainscows Towards a Self-Improving System: Lessons from a City Challenge (2015) are reprinted by permission of Routledge.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fullan, Michael.

The NEW meaning of educational change / Michael Fullan. Fifth edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-0-8077-5680-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)

ISBN: 978-0-8077-5744-4 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0-8077-7403-8 (e-book)

1. Educational changeCanada. 2. Educational changeUnited States. 3. Education and stateCanada. 4. Education and stateUnited States. I. Title.

LA412.F85 2015

370.971dc23

2015027657

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Routledge ISBN: 978-1-138-64139-6 (paper)

Teachers College Press ISBN 978-0-8077-5680-5 (paper)

Teachers College Press ISBN 978-0-8077-5744-4 (hardcover)

Teachers College Press ISBN 978-0-8077-7403-8 (ebook)

To the memory of Matt Miles:
friend, mentor, lover of life,
and the best change agent around.