href="#u1eb82ef3-fa34-5847-92cc-de4a46f89801">CHAPTER TWO
Mooresville Graded School District
Driving Factors
Connections to Advance Knowledge
Professional Capital of Teachers: Social Capital
Social Capital
Shared Leadership
Talking the Walk
Social and Human Capital Interrelations
Professional Capital of Teachers: Human Capital
Leadership Pathways
Accountability
Negaholics and Other Problems
Professional Capital of Teachers: Decisional Capital
Hallmarks of Decisional Capital
Decisional Capital at the Day-to-Day Level
Secure the Vision
Build the Culture
Determine Digital Resources
Develop Capacity
Focus on Instructional Design
Cultivate Coherence
Confront Distractors
Align Resources
Southwest: Houston
West: Utah
North: New York
Southeast: South Carolina
Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
East: Virginia
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michael Fullan, PhD, is former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Recognized as an international authority on educational reform, Michael engages in training, consulting, and evaluating change projects around the world. Many countries use his ideas for managing change.
Michael helped lead the evaluation team that conducted the assessment of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy in England from 1998 to 2003. Later, he was appointed special adviser to the premier and minister of education in Ontario, a post that he still holds.
In December 2012, Michael received the Order of Canada, one of Canada’s highest civilian honors. The Order of Canada was established in 1967 to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community, and service to the nation.
Michael bases his work on the moral purpose of education as it is applied in schools and school systems to bring about major improvements. He has written several best-selling books that have been translated into many languages. His latest books include Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change (with Lyle Kirtman); The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact; Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School (with Andy Hargreaves); Freedom to Change: Four Strategies to Put Your Inner Drive Into Overdrive; Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems (with Joanne Quinn); and Indelible Leadership: Always Leave Them Learning.
To learn more about Michael’s work, visit www.michaelfullan.ca or follow him on Twitter @MichaelFullan1.
Mark A. Edwards, EdD, serves as senior vice president of digital learning for Discovery Education. He previously served as superintendent of the Mooresville Graded School District from 2007–2016.
Mark was named the 2013 School Superintendents Association (AASA) National Superintendent of the Year and the 2013 North Carolina Superintendent of the Year. He also served as Superintendent of Henrico County Public Schools from 1994–2004. He was named the Virginia Superintendent of the Year in 2001 and was the recipient of the Harold McGraw Prize in Education in 2003.
Mark was on the founding board of directors of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and AASA’s Digital Consortium. Mark received North Carolina’s prestigious Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award in 2013 and the Public School Forum of North Carolina Jay Robinson Education Leadership Award in 2014.
Mark has been recognized as a pioneer in one-to-one computing and has published two books related to this work, Every Child, Every Day: A Digital Conversion Model for Student Achievement and Thank You for Your Leadership: The
