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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Readings & More</h2>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">For each unit, we curate a set of readings that can help you better understand and explore the ideas presented. </span><strong style="text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">We recommend choosing one reading that looks engaging and relevant, and skimming, perusing, or glancing at the others.</strong></p>
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<li>Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 2016. <em><a href="https://www.oecd.org/edu/school/school-learning-organisation.pdf" target="[object Object]">What Makes a School a Learning Organisation? A Guide for Policy Makers, School Leaders and Teachers</a></em>. OECD. </li>
<li>Schwartz, Katrina. 2016. "<a href="https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/11/21/how-one-school-changed-culture-from-within-so-students-could-succeed/" target="[object Object]" style="font-size: 1em;">How One School Changed Culture From Within So Students Could Succeed</a><span style="font-size: 1em;">." </span><em style="font-size: 1em;">MindShift</em><span style="font-size: 1em;">, November 21. KQED. </span></li>
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<p>Our course sponsor, Microsoft, has developed the Microsoft School Transformation Framework, a set of white papers and resources that summarize decades of research about school leadership and school change. Here are some of the resources that are relevant to this unit:</p>
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<li>Microsoft. 2015. <em style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><a href="https://msp2l1160225102310.blob.core.windows.net/ms-p2-l1-160225-1023-13-assets/18287_Learning%20Communities_151116_en-US.pdf" target="[object Object]">Developing a Learning Community</a></em><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">. </span></li>
<li>Sessums, Christopher. 2015. <em style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><a href="https://msp2l1160225102310.blob.core.windows.net/ms-p2-l1-160225-1023-13-assets/18261_8%20Learning%20Communities%20and%20Support_v3_en-US.pdf" target="[object Object]">Learning Communities and Support</a></em><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">. Microsoft. </span></li>
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