Michael Fullan

Leading Student Achievement: Our Principal Purpose Symposium - April 2005

Dr. Michael Fullan, Author, Educator and Consultant; appointed April 2004 as Special Advisor to the Premier and Minister of Education; Head of Leadership for Change; Former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

In the video segments below, Dr. Michael Fullan begins by reviewing the ten guidelines in the book What's Worth Fighting For in the Principalship? and then outlines the six fundamental issues in education today. He next defines "school capacity" and uses a video of Montview School in Colorado to illustrate this definition.

Video Segments:

What's Worth Fighting For in the Principalship? (Length: 7 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSA2005/d1S20.wmv

The Six Fundamental Issues Today (Length: 7 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSA2005/d1S21.wmv

School Capacity Defined (Length: 18 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSA2005/d1S22.wmv

Conclusion (Length: 10 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSA2005/d1S23.wmv

Leading Student Achievement: Our Principal Purpose - May 2007
In the video segments below, Dr. Michael Fullan highlights a number of 'newish' concepts that underpin successful educational reform and describes six key insights regarding successful change. He also touches on the topics of tri-level reform and the principalship.
Video Segments:

Introduction (Length: 3 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s1fullan.wmv

Factors in School Reform Which Lead to Improvement in Student Achievement (Length: 7 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s2fullan.wmv

Theory of Action That Underpins Our Strategies: Seven Newish Concepts (Length: 7 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s3fullan.wmv

Six Insights That Lead to Action and Result in Improvement (Length: 10 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s4fullan.wmv

The Three Levels: School, District, and Province (Length: 8 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s5fullan.wmv

The Principalship (Length: 3 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s6fullan.wmv

Conclusion: Questions and Answers (Length: 13 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/s7fullan.wmv

View Full Video (Length: 53 minutes)
http://media.curriculum.org/curriculum/LSAAug2007/ALLfullan.wmv