This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change and offers insights that might help committed professionals better serve the needs of students as they seek to implement their own reforms in the ever-shifting organizations public schools have become.

Jeffrey S. Brooks is assistant professor of educational leadership at Florida State University.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Exploring the Dark Side of School Reform Chapter 4 Theschooldayisfastandtheschoolyearisfaster! Chapter 5 Add Duties, Subtract Duties; Add Responsibility, Subtract Responsibility; Add Rigmarole, Subtract Rigmarole Chapter 6 Teaching as an Everyday Ambiguity: Who Is Doing What, Where, When, Why, and How? Chapter 7 The "Old Guard" versus the "New Way" Chapter 8 Snake Charmers in the Star Chamber Chapter 9 Strangers in a Strange School: Isolated Instructors, Divided Departments, Fractured Faculty Chapter 10 There's No "I" in the Word "School" Chapter 11 Distraction + Disorientation = Disaffection Chapter 12 Leading with Smoke and Mirrors: Of Misty Missions, Vague Values, and Floating Philosophies Chapter 13 Coda or Refrain? Reforming Again and Again and Again and Again... Chapter 14 Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia Chapter 15 Methodological Appendix