The Power to Transform: Leadership that Brings Learning and Schooling to Life Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.

Drawing upon a lifetime in education and her experience as the founding President of the internationally recognized Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Stephanie Pace Marshall is one of our nation’s most innovative educational thinkers and leaders and writes courageously and wisely about transforming learning and schooling in the United States and around the world. In this  pionerring book, Dr. Marshall asks an essential question: 

“What would it take to create a generative and life-affirming system of learning and schooling that liberates the goodness and genius of all children and ignites and nurtures the power and creativity of the human spirit for the world?”

The Power to Transform, is her response. “It will take a NEW STORY, a NEW MAP and a NEW LANDSCAPE of LEARNING and SCHOOLING that is “naturally right” by design. Using the principles and dynamics of natural living systems as our mentor and model, this “new learning story” transforms the current contexts and conditions of schooling that have created false proxies for learning and eroded the potentially vibrant intellectual life of our schools and offers a new story, map and landscape for creating generative and life-affirming learning communities that thrive by design. Such communities have their roots in meaning, not memory; engagement, not transmission; inquiry, not compliance; exploration, not acquisition; personalization, not uniformity; interdependence, not individualism; collaboration, not competition; and trust and joy, not fear.” (Stephanie Pace Marshall)

“A lucid, beautifully drawn map to schools of the future by an exceptional educator who has made the journey. Every teacher should read the book and do it, every administer should read this book and enable it, every parent should read this book and demand it, because every learner aches to experience it.”

—Dee W. Hock, founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA; and author, One from Many

Seed + Spark: Using Nature as a Model to Reimagine How We Learn and Live
A Collaborative Design Project
180 Studio + Eckenhoff Saunders

Seed + Spark builds upon Dr. Marshall’s pioneering work, The Power to Transform, Leadership that brings learning and schooling to life. As a lead collaborator of 180 Studio, her transformational thinking and applications around a new story of learning are integrated into a visually dynamic framework in print and digital form. In addition to reimagining how we learn, this collaborative design project between 180 Studio and the Architectural Firm Eckenhoff Saunders broadens the lens to include how we live and work. Seed & Spark is an eclectic, provocative series of interviews, ideas, and case studies in which parallel worlds collide and our basic understanding of our place in the planet is forever altered. 

Science Literacy for the Twenty-first Century
by Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A Scheppler and Michael J Palmisano, editors

This outstanding collection of essays commemorating the 80th birthday of Nobel Laureate, Dr. Leon Lederman, was authored by eminent scientists and science educators including:  Bruce Alberts, Howard Gardner, Margaret Geller, Stephen J. Gould, George A.Keyworth, Lawrence M .Krauss,  Leon Lederman, Stephanie Pace Marshall, Sheila Tobias, and James Trefil. 

Each essay uniquely offers innovative and thought-provoking recommendations for enhancing science education and scientific understanding throughout the world and improving the scientific knowledge and fluency of our global citizenry. 

“Scientific literacy alone is not sufficient to thoughtfully engage the global commons in understanding and solving the complex issues of our time. Our children must be taught to “speak” the language of science.” (Stephanie Pace Marshall)

This collection of essays offers powerful insights, as to how we might begin.

Work is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose from the World's Greatest Thought Leaders
(Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum) Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah MacArthur, editors.

Chapter 12 - The New Work of Leaders: How does your Leadership Narrative Show Up? Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.

Offering original essays from some of the world’s greatest thought-leaders, Work is Love Made Visible, illuminates the journey of leaders toward finding purpose, explores some of life’s most difficult questions and candidly shares defining moments and personal insights of what it means to live a life of purpose and service. 

Together, these powerful essays examine our fundamental questions about seeking and finding purpose and illuminate the responsibility of leaders to empower others to find purpose and meaning in their own  lives.

The Organization of the Future (The Drucker Foundation)
by Frances Hesselbein (Editor) Marshall Goldsmith (Editor) Richard Beckhard
Chapter 18 - Creating Sustainable Learning Communities for the Twenty-First Century Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.

This unique compendium of original essays written by some of the world’s top authors, consultants and leaders in the field of organization and management offers a self-led seminar on the organization of the future.  It presents the latest and best thinking of acclaimed visionaries and practitioners who ponder the future of human enterprise everywhere in government, business and community.  The authors provide their own perspectives on tomorrow and together, underscore where, when, and how organizations and their leaders must evolve, not only to survive, but to prosper.