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The Age of Identity
Published by Corwin The Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Honourable Mention 2025 LEARN MORE
A perfect storm is upon us and educators are in the middle of it. Identity issues often incite and divide us, but they are actually our way out of the storm. No one should be oppressed or have to hide who they are, and young people need to be prepared for a future where they can learn to live together and help others belong. In their beautifully written book, Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves brilliantly show how we can and must engage with young people’s identities in their fullness and complexity. Rooted in classical and contemporary theories of identity, extensive research, and in sheer common sense, their book takes us from bitterness to belonging and includes:
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Leadership From the Middle Published by Routledge The Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Honourable Mention 2025 LEARN MORE
In the face of a global pandemic, catastrophic weather events, war, racism, and attacks on democracy, how should educational leaders respond? How can leaders enable their schools and districts to be agile, safe, and effective places of learning that help young people develop the knowledge and character that will empower them to shape their futures? While some schools and districts have taken top-down or bottom-up approaches, renowned education scholar Andy Hargreaves explores a new type of leadership – "leadership from the middle" – which becomes a driver of transformational change. Drawing from research with educational leaders across the US, UK, and Canada, Hargreaves discusses a type of leadership that regards obstacles as opportunities, embraces leadership paradox, and is collaborative, inspiring, and inclusive. This ground-breaking book unpacks not only what this type of leadership looks like, but also how this leadership approach is most effective in addressing complex problems and in educating young people to develop diverse global competencies to prepare them for their futures. |
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Well-Being in Schools
Published by ASCD LEARN MORE
This timely resource for teachers, leaders, and policymakers provides breakthrough insights into how to improve students' well-being in schools. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, students' well-being was an increasingly prominent concern among educators, as issues related to mental health, global crises, and social media became impossible to ignore. But what, exactly, is well-being? What does it look like, why is it so important, and what can school systems do to promote it? How does it relate to student achievement and social and emotional learning? World-renowned education experts Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley answer these questions and more in this in-depth exploration of the underlying ideas and research findings related to well-being, coupled with examples of policies and implementations from around the globe. The authors make the case for putting well-being ahead of other priorities, such as scores on high-stakes assessments, and explain the three powerful forces that educators can leverage to set up effective well-being policy and practice: prosperity for all, ethical technology use, and restorative nature. Inspiring, thoughtful, and provocative, Well-Being in Schools: Three Forces That Will Uplift Your Students in a Volatile World offers hope in a time of unprecedented challenges. Looking within and beyond the classroom, it charts a path toward a lofty but achievable goal: improved well-being not only for students but also for society as a whole. See the table of contents and read excerpts (PDF). |
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Five Paths of Student Engagement
Published by Solution Tree LEARN MORE
This is a breakthrough book on student engagement. Join Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves, two award-winning authors and leaders in their field, on a profound educational quest that will take you through exciting and challenging terrain. Five Paths of Student Engagement will open your eyes, heart, and mind and empower you to implement practices that lead directly to your students' well-being, learning, and success. By integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, and using inspiring examples from seven years of research, this book delves deeply into the what, why, and how of student engagement. It reveals who and what the true enemies of student engagement are, and shows you how to defeat them. It will enrich and reward your work for years to come. Utilize research-based strategies to promote active engagement in the classroom and build the foundation for student growth:
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Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility
Published by Solution Tree LEARN MORE
Social mobility—the chance, through education, to achieve greater success compared to one’s parents—is one of the most compelling issues of our time. In Moving, renowned professor, government adviser, and global change agent Andy Hargreaves shares candid, poignant, and occasionally hilarious personal experiences of social mobility. Deeply revealing, emotionally direct, and intellectually insightful, the book begins in 1950s Northwest England and takes readers up to Hargreaves’s university education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hargreaves openly shares how class movement has affected him throughout life, links his narrative to classic and contemporary research and realities, and calls on society to reverse the increasing levels of social immobility and inequity worldwide.
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Collaborative Professionalism: When Teaching Together Means Learning for All
Co-authored with Michael T. O'Connor, published by Corwin Impact Leadership Series, June 2018. LEARN MORE
Ask any educational professional about collaboration and chances are they’ll tell you it’s one of their core values. But this familiar sentiment doesn’t always translate into meaningful professional experiences that help educators or their students grow. Addressing this critical gap head-on, this book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration. Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including:
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Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance
Co-authored by Alan Boyle and Alma Harris, published by Jossey-Bass, June 2014. LEARN MORE
What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees’ passions, intellects, and commitments produce remarkable results. Based on original research from a seven-year global study, Uplifting Leadership reveals how leaders from diverse organizations inspired and uplifted their teams’ performance. Distilling the six common characteristics of leaders at high-performing organizations across business, sports, and education, authors Andy Hargreaves, Alan Boyle, and Alma Harris explore the nature of uplift, its impact on performance, and the ways to achieve it within and beyond an organization’s walls, revealing how leaders:
Featuring case studies of organizations as diverse as Shoebuy.com, Fiat, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Marks & Spencer, Cricket Australia, Burnley Football Club, and the Vancouver Giants, as well as world-leading educational systems, Uplifting Leadership provides tools for leaders to incorporate these performance-driving strategies into their own. For leaders who want their people to try harder, transform what they do, reach for a higher purpose, and stay resolute and resilient when opposing forces threaten to defeat them, Uplifting Leadership provides a path to better performance across any organization. |
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The Global Fourth Way
Co-authored with Dennis Shirley, published by Corwin Publishing, September 2012. LEARN MORE
Deep and lasting educational reform doesn't happen overnight, even in this fast and flexible 21st century. This example-packed sequel to The Fourth Way draws upon inspiring examples unearthed by brand new research to challenge educational leaders, teachers, and policy makers to put proven strategies to work promoting student learning and achievement and the high quality teaching that drives it. With striking success stories from diverse systems around the world, Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley present a bold new vision for education aimed at:
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Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
Co-authored with Michael Fullan, published by Teachers College Press, March 2012. LEARN MORE
The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities―who know teaching and leadership inside out―set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore. Book Features:
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Second International Handbook of Educational Change
Co-edited by Ann Lieberman, Michael Fullan, and David Hopkins, published by Springer, September 2010. LEARN MORE
The two volumes of the second edition of the International Handbook of Educational Change comprise a totally new, and updated collection of the most critical and cutting-edge ideas in educational change. Written by the most influential thinkers in the field, these volumes cover educational change at both the theoretical and practical levels. The updated handbook remains connected to the classical concerns of the field, such as educational innovation, reform, and change management, and also offers new insights into educational change that have been brought about by social change and shifting contexts of educational reform. Like the first best selling Handbook, this one will also undoubtedly become an essential resource for people involved in all spheres of education, from classroom teachers, teacher leaders and administrators to educational researchers, curriculum developers, and university professors. No other work provides such a wide-ranging and comprehensive examination of the field of educational change. |
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The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change
Co-authored by Dennis Shirley, published by Corwin, August 2009. LEARN MORE
In an expressive and absorbing style, this penetrating volume offers a plan for viable and sustainable educational reform that reflects research on traditional methods and new findings from successful school initiatives around the globe. Beginning with an incisive analysis of the three major educational change efforts of the past 25 years, Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley offer a plan that integrates government policy, professional involvement, and public engagement to create an environment of greater inclusiveness, security, and humanity. Drawing on "Four Horizons of Hope"—examples of promising implementation and practice—the book demonstrates how districts and schools can achieve dramatic improvement built on:
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Change Wars
Co-edited by Michael Fullan, published by Solution Tree, September 2018. LEARN MORE
Change Wars is the third book in the Leading Edge™ series. The Leading Edge series unites education authorities from around the globe and asks them to confront the important issues that affect teachers and administrators the issues that profoundly impact student success. The experts contributing to this anthology do not prescribe one method to transact change. They embrace the mission, trusting that teachers and administrators the true change leaders will venture to the Leading Edge to embrace the challenges and opportunities that will guarantee the success of their students. In today's era of educational change where reforms proliferate, initiatives abound, legal responsibilities are constantly expanding, and both teachers and leaders complain constantly of overload, the challenge is no longer just how to implement particular changes, but how to choose between changes, prioritize them, and create coherence among all of them. This is a challenge for the teacher in the classroom, the principal in the office, and for policymakers in government. How do we do the right things well, not get distracted by the wrong things, involve and include everyone who is affected, keep the momentum and the impact going, and prevent burnout by ensuring the change agenda is manageable and coherent? The 13 contributors to Change Wars tackle these difficult questions by offering their own theories-in-action of educational change the changes they want, why they want them, and how they believe they can be brought about and sustained so readers can reflect on change in their own situations and perhaps find areas of broad agreement. Change Wars provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of education reform from system, district, and classroom standpoints and examines the many perspectives of effective reform and implementation. Change Wars contains more theory than On Common Groundand Ahead of the Curve. The contributors are largely researchers and not practitioners. The majority of the contributors focus on system change from a broader perspective than the classroom level. |
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Sustainable Leadership
Co-authored by Dean Fink, published by Jossey-Bass, September 2005. Translations in Portuguese & all Nordic languages, Lithuanian and Chinese. LEARN MORE
In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement rather than superficially tested performance; Length of impact over the long haul, beyond individual leaders, through effectively managed succession; Breadth of influence, where leadership becomes a distributed responsibility; Justice in ensuring that leadership actions do no harm to and actively benefit students in other schools; Diversity that replaces standardization and alignment with diversity and cohesion; Resourcefulness that conserves and renews leaders' energy and doesn't burn them out; and Conservation that builds on the best of the past to create an even better future. |
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Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity
Published by Teachers College Press, May 2003. Translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese. LEARN MORE
We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out what it means to teach in the new knowledge society―to prepare young people for a world of creativity and flexibility and to protect them against the threats of mounting insecurity. He provides inspiring examples of schools that operate as creative and caring learning communities and shows how years of “soulless standardization” have seriously undermined similar attempts made by many nonaffluent schools. Hargreaves takes us beyond the dead-ends of standardization and divisiveness to a future in which all teaching can be a high-skill, creative, life-shaping mission because “the knowledge society requires nothing less.” This major commentary on the state of today’s teaching profession in a knowledge-driven world is theoretically original and strategically powerful―a practical, inspiring, and challenging guide to rethinking the work of teaching. |
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Learning to Change: Teaching Beyond Subjects and Standards
Co-authored by Lorna Earl, Shawn Moore, and Susan Manning, published by Jossey-Bass, April 2008. LEARN MORE
The success of school reform measures greatly depends on the support and commitment of teachers. This book examines the realities of educational change from the frontline perspective of reform-minded teachers. It charts the perceptions and experiences of twenty-nine teachers in grades 7 and 8 from four school districts--showing how they grappled with such initiatives as integrated curriculum, common learning standards, and alternative modes of assessment. This book moves beyond the bandwagons of rhetorical change and examines how these changes work in practice for better and for worse. Authors Andy Hargreaves and Lorna Earl focus on how reform proposals have brought new complexities to teaching practice and why major investments of time and support are required if teaching innovations are to become lasting and effective. Most importantly, they highlight the intense emotional demands that school change imposes on teachers, and they outline practical strategies for helping teachers through the difficult transition process--thus ensuring that worthwhile reforms flourish and endure. |
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Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age
Published by Teachers’ College Press and University of Toronto Press, 1994. Translations in Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Slovenian. LEARN MORE
'The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them' This is the challenge which Andy Hargreaves sets out in his book on teachers' work and culture in the postmodern world. Drawing on his current research with teachers at all levels, Hargreaves shows through their own vivid words what teaching is really like, how it is already changing, and why. He argues that the structures and cultures of teaching need to change even more if teachers are not to be trapped by guilt, pressed by time and overburdened by decisions imposed upon them. Provocative yet practical, this book is written for teachers and those who work with teachers, and for researchers who want to understand teaching better in the postmodern age. |
Book Series
Routledge Leading Change Series
Co-edited by Pak Tee Ng, published by Routledge. Series includes:
Co-edited by Pak Tee Ng, published by Routledge. Series includes:
- Michael Fullan: Surreal Change: The Real Life of Transforming Public Education (2018)
- Pak Tee Ng: Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes (2017)
- Dennis Shirley: The New Imperatives of Educational Change: Achievement with Integrity (2016)
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The world is crying out loud for quality education, and for the type of leadership and change to make quality education a reality. Never has there been a greater need for grasping the big pictures of leadership and change in education, which creates the world of tomorrow by developing future generations today. In this series, you will find some of the world's leading intellectual authorities on educational leadership and change. From the pens of writers such as Dennis Shirley, Pak Tee Ng, Andy Hargreaves, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, Alma Harris, Yong Zhao and Karen Edge, come wise insights and breakthrough ideas on this subject. They ask what the new imperatives of educational change are. They explore the paradoxical nature of educational change in celebrated Asian cultures and systems like those of Singapore. They point to the power of leading from the middle in schools, networks of schools and across the world, rather than just driving change from the top. They highlight the surreal nature of leadership and change at this critical moment in world history. This series of books is for the stout-hearted reader who is keenly looking for inspiration to unlock the potential of educational leadership and change in this turbulent world. |
Featured Translations
Drie maal Andy Hargreaves: Opstellen over onderwijs leiderschap en duurzaamheid
Published by Kluwer, 2011.
More Books by Andy
What's Worth Fighting For Out There?
Hargreaves, A. and Fullan, M. (1998). Toronto: Ontario Elementary School Teachers’ Federation, New York: Teachers’ College Press. (also translated into Spanish)
The International Handbook of Educational Change
Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M. and Hopkins, D. (Eds.). (1998). The Netherlands: Kluwer Publications.
Rethinking Educational Change with Heart and Mind
Hargreaves, A. (Ed.). (1997). 1997 ASCD Yearbook, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Beyond Educational Reform
Hargreaves, A. and Evans, R. (Eds.). Buckingham: Open University Press. (1997).
What’s Worth Fighting For In Your School?, Second Edition
Fullan, M. and Hargreaves, A. (1996). New York: Teachers’ College Press. (also translated into Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and Chinese).
Schooling for Change
Hargreaves, A. Earl, L., and Ryan, J. (1996). London and New York: Falmer Press. (also translated into Spanish and Portuguese).
Teachers’ Professional Lives
Goodson, I. and Hargreaves, A. (eds.). (1996). New York: Falmer Press.
Understanding Teacher Development
Hargreaves, A. and Fullan, M. (Eds.). (1992). New York: Teachers’ College Press. (also translated in Greek).
Teacher Development and Educational Change
Fullan, M. and Hargreaves, A. (Eds.), (1992). New York: Falmer Press.
Curriculum and Assessment Reform
Hargreaves, A. (1989). Toronto: OISE Press and Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Educational Policies: Controversies and Critiques
Hargreaves, A. and Reynolds, D. (Eds.). (1989). New York: Falmer Press.
Personal and Social Education: Choices and Challenges
Hargreaves, A., Baglin, E., Henderson, P., Leeson, P., and Tossell, T. (1988). Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.
Two Cultures of Schooling: The Case of Middle Schools
Hargreaves, A. (1986). New York: Falmer Press.
Classroom and Staffrooms
Hargreaves, A., & Woods, P. (Eds.). (1984). Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press.
Curriculum Practice: Some Sociological Case Studies
Hammersley, M. & Hargreaves, A. (Eds.). (1983). New York: Falmer Press.
Middle Schools: Origins, Ideology and Practice
Hargreaves, A. & Tickle, L. (Eds.). (1980). London: Harper and Row.
Hargreaves, A. and Fullan, M. (1998). Toronto: Ontario Elementary School Teachers’ Federation, New York: Teachers’ College Press. (also translated into Spanish)
The International Handbook of Educational Change
Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M. and Hopkins, D. (Eds.). (1998). The Netherlands: Kluwer Publications.
Rethinking Educational Change with Heart and Mind
Hargreaves, A. (Ed.). (1997). 1997 ASCD Yearbook, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Beyond Educational Reform
Hargreaves, A. and Evans, R. (Eds.). Buckingham: Open University Press. (1997).
What’s Worth Fighting For In Your School?, Second Edition
Fullan, M. and Hargreaves, A. (1996). New York: Teachers’ College Press. (also translated into Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and Chinese).
Schooling for Change
Hargreaves, A. Earl, L., and Ryan, J. (1996). London and New York: Falmer Press. (also translated into Spanish and Portuguese).
Teachers’ Professional Lives
Goodson, I. and Hargreaves, A. (eds.). (1996). New York: Falmer Press.
Understanding Teacher Development
Hargreaves, A. and Fullan, M. (Eds.). (1992). New York: Teachers’ College Press. (also translated in Greek).
Teacher Development and Educational Change
Fullan, M. and Hargreaves, A. (Eds.), (1992). New York: Falmer Press.
Curriculum and Assessment Reform
Hargreaves, A. (1989). Toronto: OISE Press and Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Educational Policies: Controversies and Critiques
Hargreaves, A. and Reynolds, D. (Eds.). (1989). New York: Falmer Press.
Personal and Social Education: Choices and Challenges
Hargreaves, A., Baglin, E., Henderson, P., Leeson, P., and Tossell, T. (1988). Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.
Two Cultures of Schooling: The Case of Middle Schools
Hargreaves, A. (1986). New York: Falmer Press.
Classroom and Staffrooms
Hargreaves, A., & Woods, P. (Eds.). (1984). Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press.
Curriculum Practice: Some Sociological Case Studies
Hammersley, M. & Hargreaves, A. (Eds.). (1983). New York: Falmer Press.
Middle Schools: Origins, Ideology and Practice
Hargreaves, A. & Tickle, L. (Eds.). (1980). London: Harper and Row.
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