Thrive

Education is undergoing a period of dramatic evolution. The number of options families have for their children’s education is expanding at a rate never seen in human history. Schools that understand and deliver what families want and need will survive and thrive in the future; those that do not risk losing the critical mass of students they need to stay alive. This may not be the hand educators want, but it is the hand we have been dealt.

This book shows education and school community leaders:

• The real roles of strategy and innovation

• How to build and deliver on a cohesive and strong value proposition

• The big tools of strategic design

• Proven tools for bringing about organization-wide change in a department, school, or district

• New and proven ways to engage with, understand, and measure what your community wants and needs

• Ways to ignite and measure the impact of innovative projects in your school or district

Plus, appendices that include:

• Proven, interactive, engaging activities that you can use with your own teams

• Grant’s personal five-year archive “starter kit” list of schools, networks, conferences, and other resources where educators just like you are “doing school differently”.

• Summaries of books that you may not have read that will help your team re-imagine how schools might work now and in the future