This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of change implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
Slide presentation of Henry County’s school redesign process.
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of centralized or decentralized implementation of new instructional models and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Find out how Henry County supports personalized learning leaders throughout the district.
Developed by The Friday Institute, the goal of the Digital Learning Plan is to build upon the existing foundation to develop a coherent long-term strategy that sets directions and priorities, supports innovation, and provides resources to enable the State’s educators and students to benefit fully from digital-age teaching and learning.
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are organizing in new ways and attempting to provide students with a more personalized learning experience.
But even principals who use their newfound independence to aggressively reallocate resources say that persistent district, state, and federal barriers prohibit them from doing more. The authors of this report investigated the barriers principals cited, sometimes with the assistance of state education agencies, to determine whether there were work-arounds that principals didn’t realize. What the authors found is simultaneously troubling and encouraging: principals have far more authority than they think. Only 31% of the barriers cited were “real” – immovable statues, policies, or managerial directives that bring the threat of real consequences if broken.
This playlist, created by Summit Public Schools, outline’s the organization’s framework and practice strategies for managing your stakeholders in the midst of a change process.
Dr. John Kotter has researched the processes of leaders trying to transform or execute their strategies for over four decades. Through this work, he identified and described success factors in a framework for chance called the 8-Step Process for Leading Change.
The district supports strategic vision setting and action planning through change management structures.
Learn more about Pleasant View’s decision to move to a blended and personalized model.
