Chapter 7: The Head and Heart of Change: Leaders’ Advice about Change

This chapter provides practical advice and pointers for new principals or those who are about to embark on a change in a different school. We include the personal thoughts, reflections, and insights of school leaders who were tasked with the challenge of implementing a time-sensitive change. This chapter presents leaders’ explanations of why they chose to pursue significant changes in the first place, and what drove their decision to institute change(s) from the moment of inspiration to the final considerations, that is the pre-planning stages and final considerations for sustainability. These leaders identified key strategies that they found successful and expressed their moral imperative for doing the right thing for students, and if this meant change, then that is what they committed to.