At the same time the adults are battling at the top over the right changes, the students walk into school every single day hoping to be engaged.

When it comes to change, Michael Fullan says, "Focus on a small number of ambitious goals, stay with those and build capacity." Fullan has spent years trying to get schools and state leaders to create change using the right drivers, which are:

• Capacity building
• Collaborative effort
• Pedagogy
• Systemness

Unfortunately, some schools seem too busy to take these right drivers into consideration because they continue to be under intense pressure to change...for a variety of reasons. State education departments, as well as the U.S. Department of Education, have their own ideas of how all schools should change. That clearly has some good and bad points when we take into account that not all schools are the same and lack the same resources. Yes, this is not new news.

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