{"product_id":"the-education-we-need-for-a-future-we-cant-predict-9781071802083","title":"The Education We Need for a Future We Cant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eImprove Schools and Transform Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it comes to the grammar of schooling--or the conventional structures, practices, and beliefs that define educational experiences for so many childrento cast a new vision of what school could be.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  The book addresses current systemic problems and solutions as it:\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cul\u003e      \u003cli\u003eHighlights global examples of successful school change\u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eDescribes strategies that improve educational opportunities and performance\u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eExplores promising approaches in developing new learning opportunities\u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eOutlines conditions for supporting wide-scale educational improvement\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  This provocative book approaches education reform by highlighting what works, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished if we redefine conventional schools. We can make the schools we have more efficient, more effective, and more equitable, all while creating powerful opportunities to support all aspects of students' development.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou won't find a better book on system change in education thanthis one. We learn why schools don't change; how they can improve; what it takes to change a system; and, in the final analysis, the possibilities of system change. Above all,\u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need\u003cem\u003erenders complexity into clarity asthe writing is so clear and compelling. A powerful read on a topic of utmost importance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e~Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOISE\/Universtiy of Toronto\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI cannot recommend this book highly enough  Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an impressive understanding of the challenging complexities, but also feasible possibilities, for ensuring excellence and equity for all students.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e~Carol Campbell, Associate Professor,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor decades Tom Hatch has been engaged in school reform as an observer, researcher, and participant—as well as the involved parent of three children. He has surveyed efforts across the United States and much of the world—notably Norway, Finland, and Singapore—sympathetically but not uncritically. In this magisterial work, he presents the lessons he has learned and offers sage advice to those who seek to improve our schools—anywhere, everywhere.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou won’t find a better book on system change in education than \u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict\u003cem\u003e. It addresses all the key issues and does so from the ground up. We learn why schools don’t change; how they can improve; what it takes to change a system; and, in the final analysis, the possibilities of system change. It has remarkable geographical range based on lived-in familiarity of the countries in question: the US, Finland, Singapore, South Africa, Norway, and more. Above all, \u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need\u003cem\u003e renders complexity into clarity as the writing is so clear and compelling. A powerful read on a topic of utmost importance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is highly unusual and wonderfully refreshing to read a book so carefully pitched to our turbulent times as Tom Hatch’s \u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict\u003cem\u003e. This magnum opus masterfully blends a moving personal memoir, trenchant social and political analysis, and an inspiring vision of a better world. This is must-reading for all serious educators and change leaders in the age of the coronavirus and beyond.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dennis Shirley, Duganne Faculty Fellow and Professor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eis an absolute must read for everyone interested in effective and equitable educational changes. Drawing on Tom Hatch’s extensive expertise from research and direct involvement in educational improvement work, this book provides wise advice and practical actions ranging from micro-innovations for teaching, learning and equity in classrooms, to school improvement and reform, and large-scale change to transform education systems. I cannot recommend this book highly enough – Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an impressive understanding of the challenging complexities, but also feasible possibilities, for ensuring excellence and equity for all students.  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Carol Campbell, Associate Professor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTom Hatch has been ‘in the arena’ where policy, programs, people, and power converge to educate children. In his fantastic, informative new book, \u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict\u003cem\u003e, Tom travelled the globe to study how individuals, classrooms, schools, school systems, and nations ‘try with despair and hope to change and transform educational opportunities.’ Whether you’re a parent, practitioner, or policymaker, this book is written for you to take action to improve schools and communities; and to create new educational possibilities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Pablo Muñoz, Superintendent of Schools\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis educational odyssey is a fascinating story about why we need, now more than ever, to both improve our schools and transform education systems at the same time. In the era of global health crisis, political instability and economic uncertainty, Tom Hatch and colleagues bring us a much-needed message of optimism and hope: We can change schools for better and improve education systems if we really want to do so. This book is a must-read for those who want to think differently about the education and what it takes to have schools that our children need for a future we can’t predict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Pasi Sahlberg, Professor of Education Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTom Hatch has worked at the center of some of the landmark school reform initiatives of our times. He has inside knowledge of the promise and the disappointments of school reform. In this perceptive book, Hatch shares his well-informed vision of what can work in efforts to improve our schools. The book is a timely and valuable contribution to our literature on school improvement.\u003c\/em\u003e -- William Damon, Professor of Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVery few books on school reform contain so many ideas and insights into how to develop and improve education and educational systems for the future challenges. This book underlines in a very interesting and absorbing way the fact that we do not know about the future and we can’t predict it. We can, however, create a future together by offering a right to good teaching and learning in our systems. In this task, our education must focus on humanity, equity, democracy, sustainable way of life and at the same time to take into account the uniqueness of a person and the richness of multi cultures\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mikko Salonen, Educational Leadership Consultant, Coach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere are many reasons to feel discouraged about attempts to substantively transform public education these days. The grammar of schooling has proved remarkably hard to change, most reform efforts have failed to prepare our children for the messy world we’re passing on to them, and we’re now entering a world where disruptions to life and work will likely become part of our everyday realities. If you’re one of those unwilling to give up to hopelessness, or if you’re already on the verge of losing hope, you have to read this book by Tom Hatch. \u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict\u003cem\u003e is at the same time thoughtful and pragmatic, American and global, micro- and macro. Tom provides a thoughtful analysis of why it is so hard to change schools and what it takes to make meaningful change stick in classrooms and across entire education systems. Tom’s book is a good reminder that our way out of this mess and towards a brighter future is to be found in our human agency, understood as our capacity to exercise choice in the face of uncertainty. And it shows, through example, how and why it is so important - even urgent - for the United States to look beyond its borders to learn from the amazing educational transformation work going on abroad, all the way from Europe to Africa, from South-East Asia to Latin America. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Santiago Rincon Gallardo, Education Consultant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEducation is plagued by an absent of knowledge on the intricacies related to \"making change happen\" in education focused governmental and non-governmental organizations. Tom Hatch provides numerous examples of change efforts in the United States and in numerous countries that dot the globe. Global and local change approaches are described in ways that are helpful to leaders struggling to design strategies to inform strategic and tactical approaches that are evidenced based and relevant to common struggles organizations face in diverse geographic, demographic and political contexts. The lessons learned draw upon research and practical knowledge derived from the vantage point of a highly skilled researcher and his family’s real-life journey in educational systems in Norway, Sweden, and the United States.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe various conceptualizations of change strategies included in this book provide a much-needed resource for practitioners, reformers and policy makers to consider in planning and implementing change in complex times in a variety of educational settings across the globe. Tom’s personalization of research offers excellent case studies offer a variety of ways to think about making change happen. Readers are certain to identify with a rich array of relevant research and practice whether planning change for an education oriented non-profit, schools, districts, or state and national change projects. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Larry Leverett, Retired Executive Director\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHatch has written a deeply personal and reflective book that weaves decades of personal and global research evidence with his own personal experience as a student, parent and scholar in different countries. As a result, \u003c\/em\u003eThe Education We Need\u003cem\u003e provides a unique, timely and compelling argument for how lives within schools and education systems are inextricably linked to local and national context.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003e This book will be essential reading for my students!\u003c\/em\u003e -- Karen Edge, Reader in Educational Leadership\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA well written and well-argued book, bringing in the value of small scale changes in improving whole educational systems across the developed and developing world. It is healthily critical, reflective and humble while seeking to be constructive and ultimately optimistic, too. The book shows that educational transformation without social transformation is extremely unlikely on any significant scale, but that substantial improvement of what already exists is feasible, desirable and, of itself, can make significant contributions to equity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Andy Hargreaves * Research Professor, Boston College, Director of CHENINE (Change, Engagement \u0026amp; Innovation in Education), University of Ottawa, President \u0026amp; Co-Founder, ARC Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Programs Preface    An Education in Schools    An Education in School Reform    Why This Book? Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction    School Improvement in (Norwegian) Perspective    Improving Schools and Transforming Education    Design and Organization PART 1: WHY SHOULD SCHOOLS CHANGE? Chapter 1: Increasing Access and Quality    What Has Improved in Schooling in the Developing World?    What Has Improved in Established Educational Systems?    Improvement Is Not Enough    The Bottom Line Chapter 2: Establishing Equitable Learning Opportunities    Equity, Opportunity, and Education    The Vicious Cycle: Economic Inequality + Inequality of Educational Opportunity    Separate and Unequal    How Inequality Adds Up    The Bottom Line Chapter 3: Learning With Purpose    What Are Schools For?    The Power of Unanticipated Learning    The Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict    The Bottom Line    Key Ideas From Part 1 PART 2: WHY DON’T SCHOOLS CHANGE? Chapter 4: The “Grammar of Schooling” Always Pushes Back    The Possibilities of Incremental Improvement    The Challenges of Radical Change    What It Really Takes to Improve Chapter 5: Beliefs Endure, but Times Change    “Real School” and “Real Learning”    Real Differences in Values    Turbulent Conditions    Improving in “Niches”    Key Ideas From Part 2 PART 3: HOW CAN SCHOOLS IMPROVE? Chapter 6: From Common Concerns to High-Leverage Problems    Identifying Common Needs and Concerns    From Common Concerns to High-Leverage Problems    High-Leverage Problems and Foundational Skills    From High-Leverage Problems to Systemic Improvement    Looking for Leverage: Finding Productive Problems Chapter 7: Solving Problems and Developing Micro-Innovations    Micro-Innovations for Teaching and Learning    Expanding the Power of Educators    Micro-Innovations Across the System    Micro-Innovations Beyond the Classroom    An Abundance of Needs and Possibilities    Key Ideas From Part 3 PART 4: HOW CAN EDUCATION CHANGE? Chapter 8: The Conditions for Learning    Plugging Into Schools    Finding the Right Fit    Scaling Into School Systems Chapter 9: From Possibilities to Practice    Building the Infrastructure for New Forms of Learning    Evolution and Expansion of the Infrastructure for Learning    Spandrels: Planning for Unpredictable Opportunities    Creating the Conditions for Improvement    Key Ideas From Part 4 PART 5: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE SCHOOL SYSTEMS? Chapter 10: Capacity-Building    Investing in Expertise and Materials    Relationships and Social Networks    From “Best Practice” to Comprehensive Support Chapter 11: Coherence and Common Understanding    What Does Curriculum “Renewal” in Finland Really Entail?    Coherence Inside and Outside Schools in Singapore    Beyond Alignment Chapter 12: Collective Responsibility    Trust in Society    Accountability, Answerability, and Responsibility    Building the Capacity for Collective Responsibility    Improvement in a Norwegian Context    The Mechanisms That Can Support Education Into the Future    Key Ideas From Part 5 PART 6: CONCLUSION\/REPRISE Chapter 13: From Improvements to Movements    Pursue a Series of High-Leverage Problems    Develop New Approaches to Critical Challenges    Take Small Steps to Make Big Changes    Key Ideas for Creating the Education We Need    Condense Schooling and Increase Learning Chapter 14: The Problems and Possibilities for Improvement in Every System    Improvement in Context    Steering Toward the Future    Between Nudges and Disruption    High-Leverage Leadership References Index","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738523939159,"sku":"9781071802083","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781071802083.jpg?v=1720049211","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-education-we-need-for-a-future-we-cant-predict-9781071802083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}