Below you will find a selection of Tony's Commentaries from Education Week and articles from The School Administrator and Phi Delta Kappan. Registered users may download individual PDF copies of these articles for personal use (registration is free). All articles are copyrighted by Tony Wagner. For permission to reprint multiple copies, please email tony_wagner@harvard.edu
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An Action Theory of School Change © Copyright Tony Wagner, 2001 (first published in the Phi Delta Kappan, January 2001) I HAVE worked in education for 30 years -- as a teacher, principal, teacher educator, and consultant and as head of several nonprofit organizations working with schools. For the past 12 years, I have both studied and facilitated the change process in numerous schools and districts in the U.S. and abroad. I spend most of my weeks working in schools and with various groups concerned about education. This article is an attempt to distill what I have learned about how successful leaders create change in schools -- change aimed at improving learning for all students. I call this an "action theory" of change because it is a synthesis of ideas informed by theory but developed primarily from practice -- trial and error and disciplined reflection. The theory describes how to create the conditions and capacities for sustaining change, which must be developed before more specific action plans can be considered. |
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© Copyright Tony Wagner, 2000 (first published in Education Week, June 21, 2000) For most students, high school is a time of life spent precariously between hope and despair. Faced with an increasingly diverse group of teenagers as well as shrinking resources, the American comprehensive high school has become a giant shopping mall of choices. These large, anonymous high schools create an impersonal atmosphere where student success or failure depends largely on the academic track followed. |
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Reasons to Learn in the New Village Schoolhouse |
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© Copyright Tony Wagner, 1999 (first published in School Administrator, December 1999) Most of us achieve more when we have aim for a higher bar. As a motivator, fear gets us only so far. That will be the big "a-ha" in education a few years from now--fear of not being promoted, fear of not graduating, fear of sanctions and, above all, fear of tests. These fears will begin to weigh us down rather than help us over the bar. |
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Standards for The Heart? © Copyright Tony Wagner, 1999 (first published in Education Week, May 12, 1999) Killing classmates is made more imaginable for adolescents by glorified revenge fantasies in the media and video games, and it is easier to accomplish with ready access to guns, but the root cause is neither of these. It is the absence of community for a growing number of young people. And reweaving that safety net of caring and respect for all our youths is everyone's responsibility. |
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From Compliance to Collaboration |
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Four Leadership Qualities Needed to Change Schools © Copyright Tony Wagner, 1998 (first published in Education Week, April 22, 1998) Despite all the rhetoric about shared decisionmaking, top-down, compliance-driven school leadership still seems to be the norm in many communities. The reason is that most school boards still expect new superintendents to come in and "take charge." And superintendents often expect the same of their principals. But these behaviors and expectations are badly out of date. |
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