Grant Lichtman - Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Lichtman, Grant, 1956 author.

Title: Moving the rock : seven levers WE can press to transform education / Grant Lichtman.

Description: San Francisco, CA : JosseyBass ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017026112 (print) | LCCN 2017010696 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119404460 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119404422 (epub) | ISBN 9781119404415 (cloth)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational change. | Educational leadership.

Classification: LCC LB2806 (print) | LCC LB2806 .L46 2017 (ebook) | DDC 370dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026112

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FIRST EDITION

Grant Lichtman is a globally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K12 education. He keynotes conferences and works with school and community teams, helping them to develop their imagination of schools of the future and a comfort and capacity for change. He is the author of two previous books: #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School. Grant shares resources, articles, connections with other schools and innovative programs, and his blog at www.grantlichtman.com.

For 15 years Grant was a senior administrator at one of the largest and oldest K12 independent schools in California with responsibilities that included business, finance, operations, technology, development, campus construction, and global studies. Before working in education, he directed business ventures in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet Union, South America, and the US Gulf Coast.

Grant graduated from Stanford University with a BS and MS in geology in 1980 and studied the deep ocean basins of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Bering Sea. Grant and his wife, Julie, live in Poway, about 20 miles north of San Diego.

I am sincerely indebted to the many people whose stories, voices, ideas, and passions formed the basis of this book. I have met, worked with, and gathered knowledge from well over 10,000 educators, students, and community stakeholders in the last four years, and each bit of that work is a small piece of the puzzle I have tried to form. This is their story and vision, not mine.

Having said that, there are smaller groups of people who have given much more deeply of their time and ideas, for which I am truly grateful. Many of them you will meet in the book, so I won't rename them here. I interviewed more than 80 educators and education thought leaders for this book, and most of them are quoted in their own words.

Neil Hokanson, Brad Lichtman, Kami Thordarson, Julie Wilson, and Kelly Young were kind enough to read the manuscript and provide extremely insightful input and advice. And of course, my wonderful editor, Kate Bradford, at JosseyBass provided invaluable guidance throughout the process.

There is a group of remarkable, courageous, leading educators in New Zealand with whom I have had the privilege to interact with virtually and in person. There are way too many to name, and I know I will slight some, but Kiwis are so warm and wonderful, they will all forgive me. Among those with whom I have most frequently collaborated are Maurie Abraham, Claire Amos, Becky Hare, Steve Mouldey, and Danielle Myburgh.

A small group of educators and noneducators contributed to the development of my ideas on how virtual realitybased collaborative learning can become radically more accessible to teachers and students right now, not 5 or 10 years down the road. For that work I want to sincerely thank Natalie Bell, Dee Colcord, Kevin Colcord, Andrew Ezokoye, Jill Gough, Maria Guidice, Laura Hazlett, Ann Koufman Frederick, Walter Krumshyn, Michelle Magallenez, Deena Minwalla, David Monaco, Michelle Mullen, Nuket Nolan, Julie Wilson, and Meg Wittman.

Others who are not mentioned in the book with whom I have shared ideas, who helped form the synthesis of the inevitable future of education and the levers that will help make that future a reality include Sara Allan, Pat Bassett, Sara Bird, Kevin Costa, Mark Crotty, Mark Desjardins, Joe Erpelding, Kelly Eveleth, David Farace, Tim Fish, Jordan Greenhall, Megan Henry, Tyler Hodges, Doris Korda, Kawai Lai, Bryan Lakatos, David Leach, Lewis Leiboh, Caryn Lewis, Cassidy Lichtman, Lynn Lillian, Jason Palmer, Stephen Piltch, Megan Powers, Peter Saliba and the entire Tilton School team, Kate Saunders, Jay Scheurle, Kami Thordarson, John Warren, Elliot Washor, Glenn Whitman, and Michael Wirtz.

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Muhammad Ali

The future is hereit's just not evenly distributed.