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Millians, Emily Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The goal of this study was to learn how school leaders in a complex adaptive system that is a suburban public high school influenced a process of adaptive change to the instructional core and how they were influenced by the process. For many years, U.S. public school leaders have faced challenges from the rapid pace of change in their internal and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Educational Change, Leadership, Instruction
John Jacobs; David Lopez – WestEd, 2023
Despite long-standing efforts to address and eliminate disproportionality in special education, inequities remain and continue to negatively impact Black, Indigenous, and other students of color with Individualized Education Programs. This brief from the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) supports state education agencies, local…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education, Educational Practices
Sengeh, David; Winthrop, Rebecca – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
Today, the topic of education system transformation is front of mind for many leaders. Ministers of education around the world are seeking to build back better as they emerge from COVID-19-school closures to a new normal of living with a pandemic. In response, the authors have developed this shared vision of education system transformation. This…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, State Departments of Education, Educational Improvement
Baron, Kathryn; Roberts, Christine; Shin, Sujie; Yang, Yee – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
Continuous improvement is a holistic and research-based approach to education grounded in the belief that every system is designed to achieve the results it gets; therefore, change must be systemwide, not piecemeal. California is a national leader in the continuous improvement movement that is spreading throughout local school districts as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Change Strategies, Systems Approach, Cooperative Learning
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Thomas, Veronica G.; Parsons, Beverly A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
The authors of this article each bring a different theoretical background to their evaluation practice. The first author has a background of attention to culturally responsive evaluation (CRE), while the second author has a background of attention to systems theories and their application to evaluation. Both have had their own evolution of…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods, Alignment (Education)
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Raffe, David – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
Vocational qualifications in England are undergoing another round of reform. This paper starts by reviewing the alleged weaknesses of English vocational qualifications, but argues that these do not necessarily establish a case for radical reform. The issue is not so much whether the system needs to be changed as the nature of the change that is…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Qualifications, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Watson, William R.; Watson, Sunnie Lee – Educational Technology, 2014
Higher education is under enormous pressure to transform itself and embrace a new paradigm. Operating under an outdated model that no longer aligns with the realities of modern society, institutions of higher education are recognizing the need to drastically remake themselves or possibly cease to exist. This article explores the current landscape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Systems Approach
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Baber, Lorenzo; Fletcher, Randy; Graham, Edmund – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2015
Through an illustrative example of Together We Achieve at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois, this chapter outlines an institutional approach for improving conditions for Black men on campus.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, African American Students, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Boyd, Sally – Teachers and Curriculum, 2016
How do schools maintain momentum with change and enter new cycles of growth when they are attempting to do things differently? This article draws on a two-year evaluation of the "Positive Behaviour for Learning School-Wide" initiative to identify key factors that enabled schools to engage in a long-term and iterative change process.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Planning, Systems Approach, Student Behavior
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Lane, Andy – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and has found its latest instantiation within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all". Open education, in the form of resources and…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Shared Resources and Services, Educational Technology, Educational Practices
Lichtman, Grant – Independent School, 2014
As recently as five years ago, educators politely listened to, and largely ignored, suggestions that the world is changing at a dramatic rate and that education must adapt. Today, many educators agree that the traditional Industrial Age model of learning no longer adequately prepares students for their futures. As a result, many schools, and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Educational Practices
Chatmon, Chris; Gray, Richard – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
African American males are three times more likely than their White male counterparts to be suspended or expelled in public schools. Changing these odds requires not only addressing disparities in discipline practices, but also lifting up a new narrative of hope, possibility, and brilliance so that young Black men can see and realize their…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, African American Achievement, Educational Change
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Webb, Mary – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
This paper presents an analysis of ways in which pedagogy with information and communications technologies (ICTs) may need to adapt to accommodate to a major shift in our conceptions of knowledge and learning. A holistic approach to this analysis based on Checkland's "systems thinking" suggested changes in pedagogy needed for 21st…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Change Strategies
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Yuen, Mantak; Fong, Ricci W. – High Ability Studies, 2012
A. Ziegler and S. N. Phillipson draw upon the Actiotope Model of Giftedness (AMG) to give an overview of a systemic approach to gifted education. They argue the value of such a systemic approach for understanding the development of exceptionality. The reviewers certainly agree that the achievement of excellent performance is not only the result of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Talent Development, Skill Development
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Gobet, Fernand – High Ability Studies, 2012
Ziegler and Phillipson (Z&P) advance an interesting and ambitious proposal, whereby current analytical/mechanistic theories of gifted education are replaced by systemic theories. In this commentary, the author focuses on the pros and cons of using systemic theories. He argues that Z&P's proposal both goes too far and not far enough. The future of…
Descriptors: Gifted, Educational Methods, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories
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