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HS and Brookhaven

HS and Brookhaven. Lee McCaig McLin Steel Meurer  Sullins   Sowders Harlin Kennedy Louis. “… the schools in America must be improved. … reform is not enough. What is needed is transformation.”.

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HS and Brookhaven

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  1. HS and Brookhaven Lee McCaig McLin Steel Meurer  Sullins   Sowders Harlin Kennedy Louis

  2. “… the schools in America must be improved. … reform is not enough. What is needed is transformation.”

  3. “programs are seldom overtly abandoned. Rather, the programs disappear, and the old systems are reestablished without fanfare.” “ ‘Learning how to learn’ may be an admirable aim, but it is hard to measure progress toward such a goal.”

  4. Bureaucratic vs. Learning Organizations “… learning organizations provide a more flexible and creative mode of organization.” “ … profound learning calls on the student to think and reason as well as to remember.” “Bureaucracies do not encourage creativity.” “… procedures needed to produce superficial learning are relatively easy to rationalize and standardize and submit to bureaucratic control.”

  5. Power Systems Rational / Traditional Charismatic Based on the ability to impress and empower Based on stated rationales and on “assumed expertise”

  6. Perceived Bureaucratic Models of Schools Factory Warehouse/ Prison “stored for safekeeping rather than educated.” Delivery System “… facilitating the distribution of talent to various end users.” “Students are clients and will be served if they will submit to the teacher.”

  7. Learning Organizations “ … personally interact, face to face or electronically, and are bound together by the pursuit of common questions, problems, or issues.” “ … skills needed for the survival of democracy are needed for the survival of democracy.” • “think critically” • “work in groups’ • “discipline ideas with facts” • “adopt purposeful and disciplined learning as a habit of life.”

  8. The Uphill battle versus Bureaucracy “Anyone who challenges the standards-based movement will face the possibility that he or she will be perceived as indifferent to the demand for a quality education for all children or, equally damaging, wanting to escape the public accountability the standards-based reformers hope to provide.”

  9. A Theory of Action • Become a Transformational Leader • Learn to Think Strategically • Build Internal Support • Recruit Advisors and Confidants • Have Focused Discussions • Do Active Research • Follow Through and Be Persistent

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