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Fowler, David S. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2022
The focus of this paper is to promote the awareness of higher-education administration and faculty of the opportunities presented by developing and implementing lean operational models in their institutions. The paper provides a brief account of the author's observations of small liberal arts colleges that are operating in non-efficient models. It…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Liberal Arts, College Administration
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Irby, Decoteau J.; Meyers, Coby V.; Salisbury, Jason D. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2020
This introduction to the special issue "Improving Schools by Strategically Connecting Equity Leadership and Organizational Improvement Perspectives" establishes the need for and presents an overview of the issue's empirical research accounts of how anti-racist and social justice-oriented school leaders established organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Leadership, Social Justice
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Perry, George S., Jr.; Richardson, Joan; Jackson, Tiffiny Shockley – Learning Professional, 2022
Systems, structures, and practices perpetuate disparities because they reinforce barriers that sort and separate students based on assumed success or failure. When students are disadvantaged in this way, the implicit message is that their learning doesn't matter. The counterpoint to these discriminatory systems is an asset-based approach, which is…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Organizational Development
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Weston, Cynthia; Ferris, Jennie; Finkelstein, Adam – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
While educational development has long been aligned with organizational development in the literature (Berquist & Phillips, 1975; Gaffe, 1975), in practice this link has faded with time. Schroeder (2011) has recently asserted that given the broad-based changes in teaching and learning that are taking place at universities, it is important that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Organizational Development, Educational Development, Teaching Methods
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Andrade, Maureen Snow – New Directions for Higher Education, 2016
This chapter describes organizational structures and processes at the institutional and project levels for the development and support of distance learning initiatives. It addresses environmental and stakeholder issues and explores principles and strategies of effective leadership for change creation and management.
Descriptors: Distance Education, Leadership Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Models
Scott, Stacy L.; Khanani, Jasmine; Scott, Kristin R. – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2022
Even though equity has become a hot topic, the pathway to making it a reality has not necessarily become clear. The national agenda on race, racial equity, and dealing with COVID-19 has pushed the challenge of equity to the front and center for schools. This pressurized moment in history has raised important questions: (1) What are the steps to an…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Strategic Planning, Educational Resources, Race
Kim, Daniel H. – Educational Technology, 2014
The importance of public education has never been greater as we enter the dawn of a new millennium. Innumerable efforts have been focused on improving public education, but the unfortunate result has been an array of fractured, piecemeal efforts. What is needed is a systemic approach to go from "tweaking" to "transforming"…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Case Studies
Edmondson, Jeff; Zimpher, Nancy L. – SUNY Press, 2014
In 2006, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky had been suffering from many of the same challenges facing metro regions across the country. Despite significant investments in education from the public and private sectors, outcomes were alarming: Kindergarten readiness was below fifty percent, and nearly half of the students in the Cincinnati Public…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational History, Metropolitan Areas, Public Schools
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David, Kevin M.; Sivadon, Angela D.; Wood, Donna G.; Stecher, Sarah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
In 2007, Tulsa Community College (TCC) joined the national Achieving the Dream (ATD) network, which is dedicated to developing data-informed interventions to increase persistence and completion among community college students. TCC's participation in the national initiative set it down a path for positive institutional change, but it was the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Program Improvement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Beriwal, Madhu; Clegg, Stewart; Collopy, Fred; McDaniel, Reuben, Jr.; Morgan, Gareth; Sutcliffe, Kathleen; Kaufman, Roger; Marker, Anthony; Selwyn, Neil – Educational Technology, 2013
Scholars representing the field of organizational science, broadly defined as including many fields--organizational behavior and development, management, workplace performance, and so on--were asked to identify what they considered to be the most exciting and imaginative work currently being done in their field, as well as how that work might…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Development, Job Performance, Imagination
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Laiken, Marilyn E.; Milland, Russ; Wagner, Jon – Open Praxis, 2014
Organizations today are faced with the challenges of expanding their traditional classroom-based approaches into blended learning experiences which integrate regular classrooms, virtual classrooms, social learning, independent reading, on the job learning and other methodologies. Our team converted a two-day classroom-based program, taught from…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Classroom Techniques, Online Courses, Best Practices
Trentin, Guglielmo – Educational Technology, 2012
The research and development in Europe of new educational technologies and methodologies is in continuous progress. We are not, however, seeing at the same time an equally wide diffusion of these technologies and methodologies in organizational contexts (Blain, 2011). In short, there is a quite marked difference between the speed with which…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Organizational Development, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning
Smith, Susan – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
As he prepares to leave for National American University (NAU), Dr. John E. Roueche, the longtime director of the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, is criticizing the direction of the program that he helped develop. Roueche is concerned that at a time when community college enrollment is…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Community Colleges, Educational Development, Change Strategies
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Ittner, Anne; Helman, Lori; Burns, Matthew; McComas, Jennifer – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Research highlights the importance of individualized approaches and coaching to ongoing professional learning (Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, & Orphanos, 2009). The purpose of this article is to describe an initiative that set out to help all students become proficient readers by 3rd grade. It demonstrates how coaching can support…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Organizational Objectives, Educational Needs, Teacher Education
Policy Innovators in Education Network, 2012
Education reform advocacy organizations have been working at the state-level for more than twenty-five years, but the last decade has seen a significant increase in their number and in the intensity of their focus and methods. It's no coincidence that as reform organizations proliferate the movement accelerates: the mission of such organizations…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Advocacy, Excellence in Education, Organizational Climate
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