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Dr. Spady’s pioneering work on Transformational OBE, leadership development, future-focusing, strategic planning and alignment, systemic change, instructional design, and elevating and empowering learning systems is reflected in his eleven widely acclaimed books, scores of published papers, and chapters in the books of many colleagues. His books include:
Education Reform
Outcome-Based Education’s Empowering Essence
Outcome-Based Education’s Empowering Essence is a powerful tool to guide Educators toward an understanding of positive education reform. This book explains OBE’s Philosophy, Principles and Power to transform our education system in a clear and concise way. Often called the Father of OBE, Dr. Spady gives examples of how these concepts are best applied and even shares current examples of successes. Throughout the book, you are guided to expand your thinking to consider how you can use the gems within these pages to empower the future of Education and create a high functioning society.
Education Reform
Bringing Heart and Soul to Education
Bringing Heart and Soul to Education-it’s a possibility for a better future in education. Eleven insightful and caring writers have lent their voices to a volume that cries out to be heard about education policy and reform, leadership, aims and objectives, and teacher resources. These courageous and enlightened teachers and education theory experts offer a broad range of perspectives on the alternatives open to us if we’re willing to confront today’s obsession with standardization and ‘reclaim the heart and soul of education.
Education
Learning Communities 2.0
Learning Communities 2.0 is an insightful, incisive, and paradigm-shifting critique of today’s coercive, ‘inside-the-box,’ Industrial Age testing and accountability movement, which authors Spady and Schwahn describe as a politically driven, backward-facing juggernaut masquerading as reform.
Leadership
Total Leaders: Applying The Best Future-Focused Change Strategies to Education (1998)
Leadership
Total Leaders 2.0
Total Leaders 2.0 is the twenty-first-century’s quick guide to leadership and successful change. It places the best thinking of several dozen, cutting-edge leadership and change gurus of the past two decades into an integrated, compelling, easily understood, and practical leadership framework: the Total Leader 2.0 Model.
Education Reform
Beyond Counterfeit Reforms: Forging an Authentic Future for All Learners (2001)
Education Reform
Outcome-Based Education: Critical Issues and Answers (1994)
Paradigm Lost: Reclaiming America’s Educational Future (1998)
Education Reform
Curriculum 2005: A Guide for Parents (2000), co-authored in South Africa with Anne Schlebusch
Spirituality
Opening to Greater Realities: An Amazing Journey of Spiritual Awakening (2013)
Unpublished Papers about Education
Challenging the Myths that Uphold the ‘Numbers Game’
Implementing the Essence and Power of ‘Real’ OBE
Some First Principles on Which an Ideal Educational Model Should be Based
Shifting Education’s Paradigm of Fairness and Opportunity Beyond Race or Class
The Limitations of STEAM, and Better Alternatives to It
Parents: Don’t Be Fooled by School Reform Hype!
Using Life-Performance Outcomes to Guide Professional Preparation Programs
‘Reforming’ American Education Back into the Industrial Age
Reversing the Three R’s of Education Reform
Saying “NO” to Standardized Tests Isn’t Enough!
Shifting My Paradigms
Spady’s ESEA Input to the U.S. Senate, April, 2010
The Seven Paradigms of Outcome Based Education: How Far is Education Willing to Evolve?
We’ve Waited Eight Years for This?
Unpublished papers about Inner Development
A New Paradigm Perspective on Conscious Living
Big ‘Takeaway’ Messages from The Last Jedi – February 24, 2018
Has OBE Awakened Our Educational Consciousness?
Learning is Transformation of the Self: Initial Insights
My Enlightened Contemporary ‘Teachers’ of Our Vast Human Essence
Notable Quotes about Oneness