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PDF pending restorationFirestone, William A.; Corbett, H. Dickson, III – 1980
This study examined cooperative planning for change between educational linkers and 11 schools. Qualitative field research methods were used to determine the effects that school context factors, the school-agency relationship, and linking agent behavior had on project outcomes. Results showed that the school context and the school-agency…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Change Agents, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change
Download full textFirestone, William A.; Corbett, H. Dickson, III – 1979
This report covers the first year of a five-year study of 11 school districts that are involved in school improvement activities. The schools are attempting to create new programs that will increase the effectiveness of linking agents working with the schools in three curriculum areas: basic skills, career preparation, and citizen education.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Heller, Marjorie F.; Firestone, William A. – 1994
Research on leadership for change should focus more on what leaders do and less on who the key leaders are. This study identifies a set of change leadership functions, including providing and selling a vision of change, obtaining resources, providing encouragement and recognition, adapting standard operating procedures, monitoring the improvement…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Central Office Administrators, Change Agents, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedFirestone, William A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1989
School district use of state educational reform is reviewed. Active users want to and can respond positively. A dominant coalition, which believes it can set its own agenda and sees the reforms as ways of meeting its own ends, promotes willingness. Systems for managing key change functions/linkages are essential. (TJH)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFirestone, William A.; Wilson, Bruce L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1985
Principals can influence teachers and instructional behavior by working through linkage mechanisms within the organizational structure of the school. Two types of linkages are identified: bureaucratic and cultural. Principals have access to linkages of both kinds; using linkages effectively, they can generate a common purpose in their schools. (MD)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Change Agents, Cultural Context, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedHeller, Marjorie F.; Firestone, William A. – Elementary School Journal, 1995
Identifies a set of change leadership functions including sustaining a vision for change, encouraging staff, modifying standard operating procedures, and monitoring progress. Suggests that these functions do contribute to change, but are also performed redundantly by persons in a variety of overlapping roles, including central office personnel,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Administration, Educational Change
