Leading professional learning: think 'system' and not 'individual school' if the goal is to fundamentally change the culture of schools

School Administrator, Nov, 2006 by Michael Fullan

* Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Building Professional Learning Communities (2006) by R. Dufour, R. Dufour, B. Baker, and T. Many, Solution Tree, Bloomington, Ind.

* Managers not MBAs (2004) by H. Mintzberg, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco.

* Reform as Learning (2006) by L. Hubbard, H. Mehan, and M.K. Stein, Routledge, London.

* School Reform From the Inside Out: Policy, Practice and Performance (2004) by R.F. Elmore, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

* The New Meaning of Educational Change (in press) by M. Fullan, 4th edition. Teachers College Press, New York, N.Y.

* Turnaround Leadership (2006) by M. Fullan, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.

Michael Fullan is professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON M5S 1V6. E-mail: mfullan@oise.utoronto.ca