ABSTRACT
How can we bring about positive and productive change in schools? This chapter narrates a powerful new approach to school change called the “whole-faculty study group process” that has the potential to increase school effectiveness, enhance student learning, and move schools toward becoming learning organizations. The core element in this transitional process is synergistic, multiple-level comentoring, teachers-toteachers, administrators-to-teachers, and administrators-to-administrators. The discussion is based on my work in change management and experiences with the whole-faculty study group process in over 75 schools and 700 study groups in those schools. It provides both the practical knowledge required to implement and successfully use this new approach and a theoretical foundation to understand its key components. This chapter also draws many of the process fundamentals and practices from the comprehensive study group book by Carlene Murphy and myself (1998).
