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Wyatt, Lisa G.; Scragg, Benjamin S.; Stein, Jennifer Y. G.; Mishra, Punya – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
This case study, framed within a school-university partnership, highlights the tensions inherent to employing design-based approaches for educational change. The case illustrates core tensions between an abductive, open-ended, design-based approach to change versus more traditional (deductive/inductive) approaches to managing change in schools.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Design, College School Cooperation
Wheeler, Louanne M. – Principal, 1993
In July 1992, New American Schools Development Corporation (private, tax-exempt organization) announced selection of 11 designs to serve as models for schools of future. Nationwide competition sought to improve existing public schools with new ideas and money from corporate donations. Winning proposals incorporate concepts such as longer school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Pilot Projects
McCarthy, Jane – 1991
The Accelerated Schools model attempts to restructure schools with high at-risk student populations and mainstream these students by the end of elementary school. A 6-year process of collaborative unity is used to identify challenge areas and move the school toward individualized solutions. The Accelerated Schools Satellite Center Project emerged…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Administrator Education, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education
Johnson, William L.; And Others – 1994
School culture has recently emerged as a framework for the study and interpretation of the structure and development of schools. This paper reviews a work culture productivity model and reports the development of a culture instrument. The use of second-order component analysis shows areas of generalization across primary factors. The School Work…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperation, Culture, Educational Environment
Smith, J. Lea; And Others – 1992
In 1988 the Kentucky Supreme Court upheld a previous decision that the state public education system had failed to provide an efficient system of common schools. The Kentucky Educational Reform Act (KERA, 1990) came from this decision. This paper reviews the restructuring of a primary school under the KERA, focusing on one collaborative effort…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment