Ronald J. Newell spent 27 years as a high school history teacher and coach, 4 years in teacher preparation programs at the university level, helped begin the Minnesota New Country School, and now works with the Gates-EdVisions Project replicating the project-based model. He is also the author of Passion for Learning (ScarecrowEducation, 2003).Irving H. Buchen is Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of International Programs for IMPAC University, a member of the doctoral business faculty of Capella University, a Senior Principal of Canis Learning Systems, and training editor of The Futurist, the official publication of the World Future Society.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1. The Future of School GovernanceChapter 4 2. The Teacher Culture of the Past and PresentChapter 5 3. The Past Creates the Future: Democratic SchoolsChapter 6 4. The Future in the Present: The Visions of EdVisionsChapter 7 5. Educational Collaboratives: The Five Facets of MasteryChapter 8 6. Obstacles and Opportunities: Feedback from PractitionersChapter 9 7. Creating the Culture of Collaborative GovernanceChapter 10 Appendix A: Practitioner Responses to the Five Aspects of CollaborationChapter 11 Appendix B: Practitioner Responses to the Four StatementsChapter 12 ReferencesChapter 13 IndexChapter 14 About the Authors

Truly, this is a book whose time has come. The wave of major transformation for school systems has finally begun to crest and can no longer be ignored by the observers on the old traditional shore. Irving Buchen and Ron Newell bring insight, knowledge and, most importantly, experience about the conditions pushed forth in this upswell of change. Schools need to pull students forward into the future, not tie them down in the past. Schools can no longer mirror the Command and Control models of the old Industrial Age. The Knowledge Work era has arrived and requires both schools and organizations in the larger economy become much more democratic and collaborative to survive. The key players in the future success of American schools are those who are most oftenoverlooked, undervalued and ignored in the present educational system ? teachers, parents and students. This book distributes leadership roles to all. A globalized economy is re-writing the rules for American business organizations. The source for the future workforce that will create a successful new American economy currently resides in the schools of today. To create a powerful future in the United States the changes need to happen in the present. Buchen and Newell bring this reality clearly into the

Ronald J. Newell spent 27 years as a high school history teacher and coach, 4 years in teacher preparation programs at the university level, helped begin the Minnesota New Country School, and now works with the Gates-EdVisions Project replicating the project-based model. He is also the author of Passion for Learning (ScarecrowEducation, 2003).Irving H. Buchen is Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of International Programs for IMPAC University, a member of the doctoral business faculty of Capella University, a Senior Principal of Canis Learning Systems, and training editor of The Futurist, the official publication of the World Future Society.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1. The Future of School GovernanceChapter 4 2. The Teacher Culture of the Past and PresentChapter 5 3. The Past Creates the Future: Democratic SchoolsChapter 6 4. The Future in the Present: The Visions of EdVisionsChapter 7 5. Educational Collaboratives: The Five Facets of MasteryChapter 8 6. Obstacles and Opportunities: Feedback from PractitionersChapter 9 7. Creating the Culture of Collaborative GovernanceChapter 10 Appendix A: Practitioner Responses to the Five Aspects of CollaborationChapter 11 Appendix B: Practitioner Responses to the Four StatementsChapter 12 ReferencesChapter 13 IndexChapter 14 About the Authors

Truly, this is a book whose time has come. The wave of major transformation for school systems has finally begun to crest and can no longer be ignored by the observers on the old traditional shore. Irving Buchen and Ron Newell bring insight, knowledge and, most importantly, experience about the conditions pushed forth in this upswell of change. Schools need to pull students forward into the future, not tie them down in the past. Schools can no longer mirror the Command and Control models of the old Industrial Age. The Knowledge Work era has arrived and requires both schools and organizations in the larger economy become much more democratic and collaborative to survive. The key players in the future success of American schools are those who are most oftenoverlooked, undervalued and ignored in the present educational system ? teachers, parents and students. This book distributes leadership roles to all. A globalized economy is re-writing the rules for American business organizations. The source for the future workforce that will create a successful new American economy currently resides in the schools of today. To create a powerful future in the United States the changes need to happen in the present. Buchen and Newell bring this reality clearly into the

Ronald J. Newell spent 27 years as a high school history teacher and coach, 4 years in teacher preparation programs at the university level, helped begin the Minnesota New Country School, and now works with the Gates-EdVisions Project replicating the project-based model. He is also the author of Passion for Learning (ScarecrowEducation, 2003).Irving H. Buchen is Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of International Programs for IMPAC University, a member of the doctoral business faculty of Capella University, a Senior Principal of Canis Learning Systems, and training editor of The Futurist, the official publication of the World Future Society.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1. The Future of School GovernanceChapter 4 2. The Teacher Culture of the Past and PresentChapter 5 3. The Past Creates the Future: Democratic SchoolsChapter 6 4. The Future in the Present: The Visions of EdVisionsChapter 7 5. Educational Collaboratives: The Five Facets of MasteryChapter 8 6. Obstacles and Opportunities: Feedback from PractitionersChapter 9 7. Creating the Culture of Collaborative GovernanceChapter 10 Appendix A: Practitioner Responses to the Five Aspects of CollaborationChapter 11 Appendix B: Practitioner Responses to the Four StatementsChapter 12 ReferencesChapter 13 IndexChapter 14 About the Authors

Truly, this is a book whose time has come. The wave of major transformation for school systems has finally begun to crest and can no longer be ignored by the observers on the old traditional shore. Irving Buchen and Ron Newell bring insight, knowledge and, most importantly, experience about the conditions pushed forth in this upswell of change. Schools need to pull students forward into the future, not tie them down in the past. Schools can no longer mirror the Command and Control models of the old Industrial Age. The Knowledge Work era has arrived and requires both schools and organizations in the larger economy become much more democratic and collaborative to survive. The key players in the future success of American schools are those who are most oftenoverlooked, undervalued and ignored in the present educational system ? teachers, parents and students. This book distributes leadership roles to all. A globalized economy is re-writing the rules for American business organizations. The source for the future workforce that will create a successful new American economy currently resides in the schools of today. To create a powerful future in the United States the changes need to happen in the present. Buchen and Newell bring this reality clearly into the