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Theory Page

Models

School Effectiveness Framework-Wales

Ontario

ASCD Whole Child/Georgia

Chicago Public Schools

Specialized Model (Faithbased School)


Theories unique to field

  • School Effects Research - the study of the scientific properties of school effects, including the existence, magnitude, consistency, and stability.

  • Rutter, M. (1983). School effects on pupil progress: Research findings and policy implications. Child Development, 1-29.

    

  • Effective Schools Research- focuses upon the processes of effective schooling using outlier schools and case studies.

  • Purkey, S. C., & Smith, M. S. (1983). Effective schools: A review. The Elementary School Journal, 83(4), 427-452.

  • Scheerens, J., & Creemers, B. P. (1989). Conceptualizing school effectiveness. International Journal of Educational Research, 13(7), 691-706. READ HERE

    

  • School Improvement Research - examines the processes by which schools can be changed, including and extending to increasingly sophisticated models.

  • Joyce, B. R. (1991). The Doors to School Improvement. Educational leadership, 48(8), 59-62.

  • Fink, D., & Stoll, L. (2005). Educational change: Easier said than done. In A. Hargreaves, A. Lieberman,M. Fullan, & D. Hopkins (Eds.), Extending educational change: International handbook of educational change (pp. 17–41). Dordrecht: Springer.

    

See Teddlie, C. (2009). The legacy of the school effectiveness research tradition. Second International Handbook of Educational Change, 23(3), 523–554.


Five phases of school & system improvement

PHASE 1-Understanding the organizational culture of the school

  • Organizational Development tradition

  • School culture inherent to change

PHASE 2-Action research and research initiatives at the school level

  • School review

  • Teacher research

PHASE 3-Managing change and comprehensive approaches to school reform

  • Centralized policy change

  • Comprehensive school reform

PHASE 4-Building cpacity for student learning at the local level and continuing emphasis on leadership

  • PLCs

  • Leadership and student achievement

PHASE 5-Towards systemic improvement

  • Benchcmarking

  • Differentiated approaches

Hopkins, D., Stringfield, S., Harris, A., Stoll, L., & Mackay, T. (2014). School and system improvement: A narrative state-of-the-art review. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 25(2), 257-281.


What Makes Good System Leaders?

Kirtman & Fullan

Seven Key Competencies for System Reform



Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning

Preparing leaders for deeper learning

New Pedagogies for Deeper Learning

Great Teachers in Latin America

Video-Coherence-Fullan

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University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
St. Augustine

ph: 868-477-1500

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