Examining Organizational Change through the work of Dr. Anthony Muhammad's book "Transforming School Culture"

2. Why do school employees resist change? “… if school leaders holistically understand the most important variables in unhealthy learning environments and arm themselves with strategies to uproot and replace toxic elements, then they can be successful at creating healthy learning environments in their schools.”

3. Who are these employees? “… in order to transform a toxic to a healthy learning environment, it is essential for leaders to understand and influence change within these groups of educators within the school” (Muhammad, 2009, p. 29).

4. Believers Success for All Students “ If schools are to transform their cultures into fertile ground for positive experimentation and student nurturing, they must increase their population of Believers, and their Believers must become more vocal members of the school community” (Muhammad, 2009, p. 41).

5. Tweeners To Find Comfort Zone Within the Organization “ The future of our schools is in jeopardy if we cannot create a system that protects and grooms our Tweeners into the types of educators that will ... adopt the types of philosophies and practices that increase student learning… Socializing them in the progressive and visionary goals of public school will ensure that Tweeners do more than stay in the profession; it will ensure their effectiveness for years to come” (Muhammad, 2009, p. 53).

6. Survivors Survive “ The state of the Survivor cannot be ignored or easily fixed. The best and only real solution is to remove the Survivor from the conditions that caused the depression until he or she can get proper treatment. Wishful thinking or turning a blind eye will not solve the problem, and leaving Survivors in the environment that caused their psychological breakdown can only make matters worse” (Muhammad, 2009, p. 59).

7. Fundamentalists Maintain the Status Quo “ Fundamentalists pose the biggest and most critical challenge to schools seeking to create a healthy culture… Leaders in the public schools of the 21 st century and beyond must realize that change is an inevitable part of organizational evolution. Those who are not poised to evolve and meet the ever-changing needs of the students they serve are doomed to eventually fail” (Muhammad, 2009, p. 81).

9. STATUS QUO CHANGE clash stalemate Fundamentalists School