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Leading Schools as Living Systems: A Model of Organizational Survival--A Delphi Study
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Romero, Ricardo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the most necessary and the most feasibly practicable future leadership behaviors of the educational leader of a California Schools to Watch-Taking Center Stage middle school necessary to lead a school organization toward continued survival. Methodology: The participants in the present study were…
Descriptors: Institutional Survival, Delphi Technique, Middle Schools, School Organization
A Cross-Case Study of the Impact of Organizational Change through the Diffusion of the Classrooms for the Future Initiative
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Slamecka, Brian Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 2006, Governor Edward Rendell announced a three-year, $200 million Classrooms for the Future program to provide technology and technology support to schools across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, beginning in the 2006-2007 school year. The purpose of this research study is to examine the change process of the diffusion of technology within…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Change, Adoption (Ideas)
Brokering Boundaries: Literacy Change Agents at Work
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VanDeusen-MacLeod, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this mixed-method descriptive case study is to investigate the role technical assistance providers within the context of one state's large-scale literacy grant program. This study provides an in-depth examination of one state's technical assistance providers known as Reading First Facilitators (RFF) through the study of a group of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Adult Learning, School Districts, Educational Technology