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Developing Organizational Capacity for Implementing Complex Education Reform Initiatives: Insights from a Multiyear Study of a Teacher Incentive Fund Program
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Malen, Betty; Rice, Jennifer King; Matlach, Lauren K. B.; Bowsher, Amanda; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney; Hyde, Laura H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: This article seeks to enhance our understanding of the ever-present challenge of developing organizational capacity to implement complex education reform initiatives. We analyze the strategies in one large metropolitan education system used to address the district-level and site-level capacity challenges that surfaced as they implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Capacity Building, Teacher Salaries, Incentives
Levels of Leadership: Effects of District and School Leaders on the Quality of School Programs of Family and Community Involvement
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Epstein, Joyce L.; Galindo, Claudia L.; Sheldon, Steven B. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: This study tests key constructs of sociocultural and organizational learning theories with quantitative methods to better understand the nature and impact of district and school leadership and actions on the quality of programs of family and community involvement. Research Design: Survey data from a "nested" sample of 24 districts and 407…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Community Involvement, Program Implementation, Program Development
Organization and Change: The Effects of School Linkages on the Quantity of Implementation.
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Wilson, Bruce L.; Corbett, H. Dickson – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis support the proposition that tight cultural, structural, and interpersonal linkages in a school's organization increase the degree of implementation of new classroom practices. The three-year study involved 14 schools engaged in instructional improvement projects with an external…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Interprofessional Relationship