Drawing on a five-phase model of the change process, this book uses real world examples to examine the discovery, design, development, implementation, and sustaining of educational innovations and improvements.

Class-tested and field-tested, The Challenges of Educational Change provides the most comprehensive and recent examination of research and practice related to educational change. This book is designed for challenge and reform courses in schools of education as well as policy and organizational behavior courses. It addresses the main challenges of change—how to lead, evaluate, and explain educational change. In order to effect change, people need to understand how it occurs and what is most and least likely to occur. By learning how to evaluate change, students will gain valuable skills in addition to learning how that change is created.