Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 9 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Aladjem, Daniel K. | 1 |
Baker, Paul J. | 1 |
Bjork, Lars G. | 1 |
Boyle, Andrea | 1 |
Cancienne, Mary Beth | 1 |
Cawelti, Gordon | 1 |
Chesley, Gary | 1 |
Chi-kin Lee, John | 1 |
Christensen, Georgia J. | 1 |
Conley, David T. | 1 |
Davidson, Mary E. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 8 |
High Schools | 3 |
Higher Education | 2 |
Secondary Education | 2 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Administrators | 3 |
Policymakers | 2 |
Practitioners | 2 |
Location
Illinois | 2 |
Hong Kong | 1 |
Kentucky | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 3 |
American Recovery and… | 1 |
Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Baker, Paul J. – Planning and Changing, 2011
This paper presents an array of structural configurations that invite new consideration of the necessary conditions for developing systemic school reform; first by reviewing the current literature, and then by examining thirty-six existing partnerships as structural configurations, an exploratory typology for the analysis of successful…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Systems Approach, College School Cooperation, Models
Todd, Rebecca Curry – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education released "A Nation at Risk", which triggered an extended era of school reform culminating in today's accountability movement. In Kentucky the school improvement process, in which principals play an integral part, is based on the "Standards and Indicators for School…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis
McLester, Susan – District Administration, 2011
The Obama administration has grand hopes for turning around the nation's lowest-performing schools, in part by allocating $3.5 billion for School Improvement Grants. Unfortunately, there simply aren't enough qualified principals to replace those mandated to be fired under two of the four school improvement models that the federal government says…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Low Achievement, Federal Government, Educational Improvement
McMurrer, Jennifer; Dietz, Shelby; Rentner, Diane Stark – Center on Education Policy, 2011
Over the next three years, states will dedicate an unprecedented amount of federal funding to school improvement efforts at approximately 5,000 of the nation's lowest achieving schools. The $100 billion for education appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, included an…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Low Achievement, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Learning Point Associates, 2010
The purpose of this guide is to help chronically struggling schools restructure. "Restructuring" means major, rapid changes that affect how a school is led and how instruction is delivered. Restructuring is essential in achieving rapid improvements in student learning. The focus is on helping education leaders choose strategies that…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, School Restructuring, School Districts, Educational Change

Chesley, Gary – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
A school's reengineering must first make sense to the leadership team before being sold to a skeptical faculty. The principalship's real power lies in persuasion. The Six "I" Framework, a model to help principals argue persuasively for change, is based on interdisciplinary instruction, integrated instructional targets and assessment practices,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Models
Miller, Robert J.; Rowan, Brian – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
Proponents of school restructuring often promote the purported benefits of professional forms of management that call for staff cooperation and collegiality, teachers' participation in school decision making, and supportive leadership by school principals. A theoretical perspective on organizations known as contingency theory refers to such…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education, School Restructuring, Principals
Chi-kin Lee, John; Levin, Henry; Soler, Pilar – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2005
This article addresses the application of the Accelerated Schools Project (ASP) model in Hong Kong, as well as specific aspects of implementation in two schools. One lesson from the localized project, the Accelerated Schools for Quality Education (ASPQE), is that change is slow. This suggests that time should be given for both cultural change and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, School Restructuring, Educational Change
Stevens, W. David – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2008
Since 2002 the Consortium on Chicago School Research, in collaboration with the Mills College in Oakland, California, has conducted a series of studies on the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative (CHSRI)--a partnership between Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Gates Foundation, and local Chicago foundations to create approximately two dozen…
Descriptors: High Schools, High Achievement, Academic Achievement, Teacher Influence

Bjork, Lars G.; Ginsberg, Rick – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1995
Examines reform debates in educational administration training programs using a theoretical framework derived from Thomas Kuhn's notion of paradigm. Most administrator training programs in the United States are characterized as hybrid/preparadigm departments unlikely to undertake fundamental changes. Using a collaborative school leadership program…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Faculty, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Jetton, Tamara L.; Cancienne, Mary Beth; Greever, Brenda – Theory Into Practice, 2008
This article is a descriptive account of a professional learning community established among university professors, university teacher candidates, a school district instructional supervisor, the high school principal, a high school literacy coordinator, and teachers of a Mid-Atlantic high school in the United States. This learning community…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, High Schools, Principals, Literacy
Kurki, Anja; Boyle, Andrea; Aladjem, Daniel K. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2006
Comprehensive school reform (CSR) is only as effective as its implementation. By using data collected for the National Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform (NLECSR), this article explores the factors that predict CSR model implementation and the ways that CSR model implementation varies. We found little difference in the fidelity…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, School Restructuring
Christensen, Georgia J. – 1993
This paper examines the implications for change in the role of the principal when a school moves from a traditional model to a specific restructured model, an accelerated school. The paper begins with a review of the characteristics of both traditional and restructured schools in general, and the accelerated school as a particular example of a…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Change
Conley, David T. – OSSC Bulletin, 1993
Factors that can powerfully affect an educator's ability to manage school change are culture, leadership, and readiness. Movement from bureaucracy to community, from isolation to collaboration, involves cultural changes. Managing the change process within a cultural context is influenced by the structural, human resources, political, and symbolic…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Culture, Educational Assessment
Hord, Shirley M. – 1992
Schools must change to meet the demands of an increasingly diverse population of children, many of whom are at risk of leaving school unprepared for a productive adult life. Research-based evidence indicates that the process of change has been a neglected area in policy implementation. The key factor is "facilitative leadership,"…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1 | 2