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Ward, Vicky – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
Knowledge mobilisers (people who move knowledge into action) face a number of challenges. These include making sense of diverse definitions, navigating through fragmented literature and identifying helpful models and tools. This paper presents a framework designed to help. Based on a review of 47 knowledge mobilisation models, it consists of four…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Knowledge Management, Models, Literature Reviews
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Watson, Sara; Badagawa, Gideon; Hunt, Jane; Lica, Carmen – Childhood Education, 2018
Education Diplomacy engages the business sector with educators, policymakers, and government agencies by building consensus on policy, practice, and lifelong outcomes and taps into business people's natural skills and influence. The Education Diplomat is an important role for all stakeholders to make a lasting difference in the lives of children,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Change Agents, Social Networks, Educational Policy
Katzman, John; Horn, Michael B. – Independent School, 2016
Technologies used in new business models have disrupted almost every sector of the economy. Many are now beginning to discuss when disruption will come to independent schools. The answer, of course, is that it has already happened; in areas such as admissions, college guidance, and learning content, there are disruptive innovations that are…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Change, Change Agents, Influence of Technology
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Macdonald, R. Heather; Beane, Rachel J.; Baer, Eric M. D.; Eddy, Pamela L.; Emerson, Norlene R.; Hodder, Jan; Iverson, Ellen R.; McDaris, John R.; O'Connell, Kristin; Ormand, Carol J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
Faculty play an important role in attracting students to the geosciences, helping them to thrive in geoscience programs, and preparing them for careers. Thus, faculty have the responsibility to work toward broadening participation in the geosciences by implementing equitable and inclusive practices in their teaching and their programs. Faculty…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2014
Scott Hamilton is the Forrest Gump of education reform, although with a lot more IQ points and fewer chocolates. He worked for Bill Bennett in the U.S. Department of Education and for Benno Schmidt at the Edison Project. He authorized charter schools in Massachusetts, co-founded the KIPP network, quadrupled the size of Teach For America (TFA), and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
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de Bellaigue, Christina – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This article examines the work of educationist Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) to explore the practice of home education in the late nineteenth century. Mason's work reflected and responded to the particular circumstances and concerns of her clientele. She provided a way for parents to compensate for the practical deficiencies of contemporary…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Unions, Parent Influence, Educational Practices
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Roach, Andrew T.; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; Frank, Jennifer L. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2009
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is proposed as a heuristic for school-based consultants interested in identifying impact points for facilitating implementation of research-based practices and programs in classrooms and schools. The article begins with a discussion of the change facilitator's role in promoting changes in educational…
Descriptors: Models, Adoption (Ideas), Heuristics, Consultants
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Tajik, Mir Afzal – Improving Schools, 2008
During the last four decades, educational researchers and practitioners have intensively engaged in bringing about positive changes in schools. Therefore, the kinds of changes introduced to schools have become complex in nature and overwhelming in number--from improving teacher professional knowledge base and teaching repertoires to developing…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Role, Developing Nations, Developed Nations
Goodson, Max R.; Hammes, Richard – 1968
The problems of changing a school system require a systematic approach that coordinates various efforts within the system. A model, developed by Professor Goodson and his staff, deals with the design of a change-agent team and the work that such a team might perform. The model requires four functions to be performed: Diagnosing problems, planning…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices
Miller, Donald R. – 1968
Educational planners and managers are provided with the background knowledge essential to understanding and effecting planned change in education. Several dimensions of planned change are outlined and related to involvement of administrators, operational leaders, and teachers. Also presented is a model of the time-involvement dimensions for…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Diffusion, Educational Change
Kreitlow, Burton W.; MacNeil, Teresa – 1969
This paper describes the Model for Education Improvement and reports on an informal test of the hypothesis that the model is a valid description of the educational change process within a school system. The model combines well known elements of the change process--notions of external and internal inputs, the adoption process, and relating the…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Data Analysis, Diffusion
Robinson, Ronald; Hall, Douglas T. – 1973
The authors, representing the viewpoints of the academic and the practicing consultant, consider the integration of intervention theory and practice in public schools. The first part of the presentation discusses the intervention theory as a guide to the activities of the organizational change agent. The distinctive characteristics of the public…
Descriptors: Administrators, Board Administrator Relationship, Case Studies, Change Agents
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on change and the consultant that was conducted during a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Theory of Consultancy" (Daniel R. Boroto, Douglas A. Zahn, Darren C. Short) presents an emerging theory of consultancy that is based on an analysis of thousands of videotaped…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Consultants, Educational Practices
Thomas, Alex, Ed.; Grimes, Jeff, Ed. – 1995
Increasingly, school services are being guided by a problem solving approach and are evaluated by the achievement of positive outcomes. This shift is explored here in 96 chapters and 11 appendices. The volume provides a comprehensive reference relating contemporary research and thought to quality professional services. Part 1, "Professional…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Change Agents, Credentials, Educational Practices
Plank, David N.; Peterson, Paul E. – 1980
This paper examines the relationship of urban reform and school reform to class conflict and assesses the adequacy of a class conflict model for explaining school reform in Atlanta in 1897. A model which explains urban reform (including school reform in urban areas) in class conflict categories is based on an ideology protective of middle-class…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
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