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Elizabeth Lopes Viveiros – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study provides insight on the organizational changes and experiences that teachers, administrators and support staff at one elementary school in Rhode Island have had with the implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Framework. The Burke and Litwin (1992) Causal Model of Organizational Performance and Change…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Administration, Teacher Attitudes
Ryan Jackson, Kathleen; Fixsen, Dean; Ward, Caryn – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2018
The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) and the National Center for School Turnaround (2018) published the "Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: An Implementation Framework" as a companion to the Center for School Turnaround's (2017) recent publication of "The Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, School Districts
Opalka, Alice; Jochim, Ashley; DeArmond, Michael – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2019
In 2017 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) launched the Systems of Great Schools (SGS) initiative. With a combination of incentives and capacity building, SGS attempts to transform how school districts approach school improvement. It calls on districts to manage school performance in new ways, expand access to school choice options, and take a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Plank, David N.; Humphrey, Daniel C.; O'Day, Jennifer – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
In this brief we summarize findings from three surveys that sought to learn how county offices of education (COEs) are changing in response to the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and the Statewide System of Support (SSS). COEs have been assigned critically important responsibilities in the implementation of these…
Descriptors: Counties, Public Agencies, Agency Role, Funding Formulas
Coby V. Meyers; Sam Redding; Dallas Hambrick Hitt; Carlas McCauley; Lenay Dunn; Katy Chapman; Eric Ambroso; Min Chen-Gaddini – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2017
The Center on School Turnaround at WestEd has developed a framework to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvement efforts. The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains, or areas of focus, that research and experience suggest are central to…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Models, Systems Approach
Stephanie Myers – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This capstone examines how a newly formed senior-level team worked together to complete a complex task, while driving towards a larger goal of becoming a learning organization. For the 2014-2015 academic year, central office leaders in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) worked to develop a new approach to the execution of their…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Areas, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Morgan, Nicholas; Killion, Joellen – Learning Forward, 2018
This report investigates factors that drive teachers to embrace or challenge the use of products and services designed to support improvements in practice. Key elements of the study include: (1) Technology-based resources studied include those designed for video observations, peer feedback and collaboration, online professional learning, and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Barriers, Educational Resources, Technology Uses in Education
McCauley, Carlas; Cashman, Joanne – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2018
As researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners focus on continuous improvement in education, local-level change is gaining importance. Yet, many local school improvement efforts fail to be fully implemented. Even those that are fully implemented often fail to sustain improvements because the schools are embedded in systems that face multiple…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Stakeholders, School Districts
Dowling-Hetherington, Linda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
Over the past decade, universities in Ireland have been implementing large-scale institutional change designed to better prepare them for the multitude of pressures they face. Changes have been taking place, for example, in approaches to institutional management and leadership practices and in decision-making structures. However, despite the rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, Educational Administration
Lindahl, Ronald A.; Beach, Robert H. – Planning and Changing, 2013
Although evaluation serves many purposes in education, there is virtually unanimous agreement that evaluation is a critical component of all school improvement processes. Hamilton et al. (2003) asserted that "assessment and evaluation should be built into reform programs from the outset" (p. 26). Kimball, Lander, and Thorn (2010)…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evaluation Utilization, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Change
Legutko, Lee V. – School Business Affairs, 2012
During the past several years, school systems have implemented a variety of organizational improvement initiatives, such as Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecards, Baldrige Criteria, activity-based costing, and managing for results. Unfortunately, evidence of sustained success is fleeting as school districts remain trapped in a time warp of command,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Improvement, School Districts, Organizational Change
Arnold, Alison; Flumerfelt, Shannon – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2012
The authors' purpose for this article is to describe a K-12 public school district's journey to internalize and actualize its mission, strategic planning and vision as one coherent engagement using Lean principles and tools. Lean jointly comprises an organizational philosophy and management toolkit prominent in private, government, and nonprofit…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Institutional Mission
Protheroe, Nancy – National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 2011
School improvement can be a complex, messy business. At its most basic, school improvement is change--change that might require people to abandon long-held beliefs and practices, shift roles, and learn new skills. Kilgore and Reynolds (2011) suggested that successful change requires that people change their perceptions as well as their actions.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Organizational Change, Program Implementation, Sustainability
Honig, Meredith I.; Rainey, Lydia R. – Educational Policy, 2012
New "autonomy initiatives" aim to increase schools' decision-making authority as a strategy to leverage school improvement. These policies build on lessons of previous reforms such as site-based management in ways that bode well for their success. However, how are these policies actually faring in implementation? The authors addressed that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Institutional Autonomy, Decision Making
Levin, Ben – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
This paper discusses the challenge of making large-scale improvements in literacy in schools across an entire education system. Despite growing interest and rhetoric, there are very few examples of sustained, large-scale change efforts around school-age literacy. The paper reviews 2 instances of such efforts, in England and Ontario. After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Literacy, Educational Improvement