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Davenport, Gina – Educational Leadership, 2022
Adaptive leadership focuses on helping leaders act in a way that encourages others to adapt and embrace change. Adaptive leaders engage in activities that "mobilize," "motivate," "organize," "orient," and "focus the attention of others." Instead of single-handedly trying to solve all problems and…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership, Adjustment (to Environment), Equal Education
Walsh, Jackie Acree; Sattes, Beth Dankert – Educational Leadership, 2015
The authors have seen an inspiring phenomenon in certain classrooms--students thinking through their answers to teacher questions, responding thoughtfully to other students' answers, even self-correcting or providing more information after they've answered a teacher aloud. The strategy behind these student actions is a skillful use of "wait…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Thinking Skills, Student Participation
Alberti, Sandra – Educational Leadership, 2013
Over the last two years, the author has talked with thousands of educators about the Common Core State Standards, and she has realized that one of the biggest risks they currently face is full-speed implementation without an understanding of the changes that the standards require. When a new reform initiative comes around, the instinct of teachers…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Change, Academic Standards, Change Strategies
Levin, Barbara B.; Schrum, Lynne – Educational Leadership, 2013
This article observes that schools that use technology well have key commonalities, including a project-based curriculum and supportive, distributed leadership. The authors' research into tech-rich schools revealed that schools used three strategies to integrate technology successfully. They did so by establishing the vision and culture,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Effective Schools Research, Technology Integration

Brickley, Dan; Westerberg, Tim – Educational Leadership, 1990
Describes the efforts of a Denver (Colorado) comprehensive high school to develop a "Direction 2000" plan to restructure its purposes, goals, and program. In the awareness and planning stages, participants listed the school's strengths, compiled a "why change?" list, and outlined 10 attributes of a restructured school. (MLH)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Planning, High Schools

Wood, Fred H.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1984
The School Improvement Project of the Institute for the Development of Educational Activities, first instituted in 1980, offers high schools a method for selecting and implementing recommended changes from among the many proposed in recent reports on high school improvement. (JBM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation

Ledell, Marjorie A. – Educational Leadership, 1994
Critics of outcomes-based education and proponents of vouchers, school choice, creationism, and tax limitation measures often seem to be advocating publicly funded private education. School leaders attempting to implement OBE or other improvement programs should describe programs properly, involve the community, develop and implement a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Democratic Values, Educational Improvement

Storm, Jeanne – Educational Leadership, 1993
One fifth-grade teacher feels it is unfair if some students learn one thing, while others learn something else. Teachers must agree on some core of specific content and resolve to teach it at appropriate levels. Core Knowledge Sequence for grades 1-6 provides model of grade-by-grade content including literature, U.S. and world civilization,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Core Curriculum, Educational Change, Elementary Education

Wiske, Martha Stone; Levinson, Cynthia Y. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Policy initiatives from Kentucky to California are espousing curriculum based on NCTM-backed core concepts that students understand through induction rather than memorization, teaching based on guided mastery rather than didactic instruction, and assessment that is open-ended rather than machine-scorable. This article highlights obstacles to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Policy, High Schools, Induction

Shoemaker, Berry Jean Eklund; Lewin, Larry – Educational Leadership, 1993
Eugene (Oregon) Public Schools want to replace the traditional content-driven curriculum with a general concepts-based curriculum stressing the relationships among ideas. To help district educators understand the new model, a coin metaphor describing the two interlocking areas of curriculum (learning core conceptual knowledge and strategic…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum

Guskey, Thomas R. – Educational Leadership, 1990
When a well-conceived combination of innovative learning strategies is used, the results are generally more favorable than those attained using any single strategy. Broadening the scope of planning and implementation will not only help integrate innovations, but will enhance opportunities for collegial sharing. Integration guidelines are provided.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Collegiality, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education

Anderson, Beverly L. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Presents a matrix-continuum of systemic change defining six developmental stages (old system maintenance, awareness, exploration, transition, emerging new infrastructure, and predominating new system) and six key change elements (vision, public and political support, networking, teaching and learning changes, administrative roles and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Definitions, Educational Change

Sapon-Shevin, Mara; Schniedewind, Nancy – Educational Leadership, 1990
Cooperative learning could transform our schools, our communities, and our society. Reexamining classroom reward structures and implementation strategies could provide opportunities for reflecting on content, harmonizing content and process, coordinating cooperative learning with other classroom values, empowering teachers and students,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Competition, Cooperative Learning

Klausmeier, Herbert J.; Weber, Laurence J. – Educational Leadership, 1984
Based on individual educational and instructional programing and goal-setting strategies, the Wisconsin Program for the Renewal and Improvement of Secondary Education has improved student achievement, attitudes, and attendance in Wisconsin high schools. The program has worked largely because of its adaptability to each individual school's needs.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement

McGhan, Barry – Educational Leadership, 1994
Choosing outcome-based education over a traditional time-based approach means that students will progress through a given set of outcomes at different rates. To prevent scheduling difficulties, schools could make the transition to flexible scheduling and performance contracts within a traditional curriculum. Then teachers could develop…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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