Designing High-Performing Schools: A Practical Guide to Organizational Reengineering, Francis M. Duffy, Ph.D., RODC, 1996. The author provides a detailed, step-by-step process for restructuring schools. The organizational redesign model he has created is tailor-made for school systems. It recognizes the complexity of such organizations and examines school organization as a system of interrelated parts.

Future-focused Leadership: Preparing Schools, Students, and Communities for Tomorrow’s Realities, Gary Marx, 2006. Marx presents principles, tools, and techniques to help leaders steer their organizations confidently into the future and prepare the next generation of leaders for life in the 21st century. Readers will learn to scan the environment to identify and analyze significant trends and issues, manage issues to set priorities and minimize negative fallout, identify the characteristics of an ideal organization and construct scenarios that depict possible futures, engage the larger community in building a future-focused organization, and develop a strategic communication plan that supports the organization's goals and contributes to its ultimate success.

Schools That Learn, Peter Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art Kleiner, 2000. Following the theory he began in The Fifth Discipline, Senge turns his attention this time from the business world to education in this fourth addition to his "Fifth Discipline Resource" series, so named because it focuses on a set of disciplines the author believes are key to organizational learning (personal mastery, shared vision, mental models, team learning, and systems thinking). Senge argues persuasively that we must abandon Industrial Age assumptions about schools. This requires centering learning around the student instead of the teacher, discouraging "homogeneity," and getting away from rote memorization. The book is intended to be used as a resource, rather than read from cover to cover.

Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership, Terrence E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson, 1999. This book discusses in detail how school culture impacts school achievement, change and reform, and student learning. It covers aspects of culture such as mission, purpose, values, rituals, traditions, ceremonies, history, current stories, and school symbols such as architecture and mottoes. It also describes the role school leaders take in shaping school culture and the importance of the relationship between the school and the community culture. Finally, it concludes with an examination of the challenges facing school leaders.

Sixteen Trends, Their Profound Impact on Our Future: Implications for Students, Education, Communities, Countries, and the Whole of Society, Gary Marx, 2006. This book is a follow up to Marx’s Ten Trends (see below) and focuses on just a few of the hundreds of trends that will likely have a profound impact on our institutions and on each of our lives. Each chapter focuses on one major trend, first summarizing the trend and then outlining the trend’s implications for society and education. Each chapter concludes with a listing of questions and activities to stimulate further thought, discussion, and action.

Ten Trends: Educating Children for a Profoundly Different Future , Gary Marx, 2000. This book identifies ten trends that are likely to determine the shape and quality of our education system. There is a chapter devoted to a detailed discussion of each trend, and each chapter concludes with a list of implications for society and directions for schools.