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Learning Point Associates, 2010
The purpose of this guide is to help chronically struggling schools restructure. "Restructuring" means major, rapid changes that affect how a school is led and how instruction is delivered. Restructuring is essential in achieving rapid improvements in student learning. The focus is on helping education leaders choose strategies that…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, School Restructuring, School Districts, Educational Change
Houston, Paul D., Ed.; Blankstein, Alan M., Ed.; Cole, Robert W., Ed. – Corwin, 2007
In this second volume of "The Soul of Educational Leadership" series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines…
Descriptors: Caring, School Restructuring, Educational Administration, Educational Change
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Kilgore, Sally – Educational Leadership, 2005
The comprehensive school reform (CSR) models build consistency throughout a district while addressing the needs of individual schools. The high-quality CSR programs offer a most effective option for urban education reform.
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Urban Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Hassel, Bryan – 1998
This guide is designed to help educators make good decisions about comprehensive school reform (CSR). Since CSR takes different forms in different schools, the booklet should help schools craft a unique plan that builds on unique strengths. It emphasizes the importance of choosing carefully one or more research-based CSR models to serve as the…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Keefe, James W.; And Others – 1992
This guidebook is designed to serve as a resource and road map for restructuring schools, focusing on the development of a systematic process to implement and manage change. Chapter 1 defines restructuring as the reform of school-organizational relationships and processes to increase student learning and performance, with a focus on the following…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Penrod, James I.; Dolence, Michael G. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1991
The concept of reengineering is examined as it applies to colleges and universities, with emphasis upon information technology units. Covered are the purposes, principles, and process of reengineering; organizational change; leadership; reengineering the information technology unit; and critical success factors for reengineering higher education.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Engineering, Higher Education, Information Technology
Stanford, Barbara – 1998
Although models of successful school innovations exist, some reformers are giving up on the public schools. To address this problem, some suggestions for educators who want usable concepts to reform education are presented. The book is intended for the busy professionals devoted to education-teachers, teachers, administrators, curriculum…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Boyer, Naomi R. – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2004
Life-long learning, reflection, and teamwork are all attributes that enhance leadership capacity and school reform efforts. Yet, the skills and the process to build these skills are not traditionally integrated into university coursework in teacher education or aspiring leader programs. A framework has been developed that incorporates social…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Research Methodology, Web Based Instruction, Technology Integration
Conley, David T. – OSSC Bulletin, 1993
Factors that can powerfully affect an educator's ability to manage school change are culture, leadership, and readiness. Movement from bureaucracy to community, from isolation to collaboration, involves cultural changes. Managing the change process within a cultural context is influenced by the structural, human resources, political, and symbolic…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Culture, Educational Assessment
Vernez, Georges; Karam, Rita; Mariano, Louis T.; DeMartini, Christine – RAND Corporation, 2006
This study was designed to fill the "implementation measurement" gap. A methodology to quantitatively measure the level of Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) implementation that can be used across a variety of CSR models was developed, and then applied to measure actual implementation of four different CSR models in a large number of schools. The…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, School Restructuring, Parent Participation
Thornton, Shirley A.; Spiesberger, Bonnie – 1994
This manual is designed to assist California school personnel to respond to the increasing diversity in student populations, with a change process based on principles of shared leadership through a decentralized site-based management method. The organization change model utilized by the pilot schools is the California Local Education Reform…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals, Ann Arbor. – 1990
This monograph is written to be used by school personnel and is a compilation of many ideas. The first chapter discusses the two key ingredients that school districts must consider to promote restructuring: leadership and teacher participation. Eight steps in the process and planning of restructuring are listed. As schools begin the process of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competency Based Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Cole, Cassandra McCrory – 1992
In this information packet for special education administrators, the literature on collaboration between regular and special educators is reviewed, issues relative to the implementation of collaboration are discussed, and eight model sites are described. After an introduction, distinctions between collaboration and consultation are drawn. Key…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
Quint, Sharon – 1994
This book describes how an urban public school assumed ownership of the problems of its homeless students and their families and assumed responsibility for correcting social ills and building a better society. The B. F. Day School in Seattle (Washington) was transformed through the efforts of the principal, Carole Williams. When she took over the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Case Studies, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Adams, Charles F.; Mecca, Thomas V. – 1990
An educational planning model and instructional approach to prepare school administrators for the role of strategic planners are described. The model, ED QUEST, integrates future research techniques and divergent thinking modes into a participatory group process that provides visions of alternative futures. Primary activities in the process…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrators, Committees
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