By Anna Bryan This summer, we have reposted Anna Bryan’s articles on Adaptive Change as reminders that change is hard, important, messy, necessary, and can be managed. In this last post, The Middle Season: Thriving All the Way through Change she reminds us of the energy we have for change at the beginning of the school year, but how in November and December the momentum dissipates, or we can find ourselves lost in the mess. […]

By Anna Surratt The Middle Season In my last post, I offered encouragement to school leaders endeavoring on change initiatives at the beginning of the school year. While I hope that the encouragement from that post inspired a strong start to the school year, I know very personally that we are in a much different season as we head into the second semester of school. In this Harvard Business Review article, Rosabeth Moss Kanter calls […]