Given the complex nature of system-wide change for leading and learning, Francis M. Duffy and Patti L. Chance offer the definitive resources for system leaders to go from surviving to thriving. Strategic Communication During Whole-System Change: Advice and Guidance for School District Leaders and PR Specialists should be on the bookshelves of every system-level leader, board of education member, and other constituents. These professionals would be well served by the contemporary thinking that Duffy and Chance provide and the voices from the field offered by the practitioners who have written about their experiences of leading and learning from whole system change. -- Sally J. Zepeda, Ph.D., associate professor and graduate coordinator, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, University of Georgi Solid information is presented...The book provides a great amount of information. School Administrator, February 2009 This book is essential reading for district leaders. The available resources in this book are a treasure trove of ideas, strategies, and practical applications related to organizational change. Duffy and Chance compiled, in one place, a clear understanding of systems thinking and related it to the power of communication and its direct application to change in school organizations. -- Dr. Raymond L. Calabrese, professor and graduate coordinator, Department of Educational Leadership, Wichita State University
