ABSTRACT
Experience indicates that adaptability is a vital ingredient because of the abilities and limitations of individual change agents as well as the idiosyncracies of particular school situations and the purposes of specific innovations. The substantial evidence that those who have participated in SUNY/Buffalo's graduate program and in Buffalo Public School's School Improvement Resource Team effort have had important impacts in a variety of educational organizations supports the contention that internal change agents can contribute meaningfully to implementation of innovations in schools. Further, the training of internal change agents can be quite cost-efficient. The concern for improving the impact of change efforts has led author to experiment with strategies that increase the level of involvement of those who will be responsible for implementation. The point is that involvement, commitment and ownership are important considerations in the process of implementing change. There is much potential for improving our ability to change educational organizations through the deployment of internal change agents.
