Balancing the Tensions of Change: Eight Keys to Collaborative Educational Renewal

by Russell Osguthorpe, Robert Steven Patterson

Written to help administrators and teachers deal effectively with the tensions that arise in collaborative work, this book identifies eight positive tensions that emerge when unlikely partners join together to work toward common goals. The authors describe the type of `role flexibility′ that is needed in collaborative change initiatives, and suggest ways for developing this flexibility among all participants.

152 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 1998