| This tutorial is designed to help school leaders
change and improve their schools. It allows the user to explore
processes and strategies shown to be effective in successful
Florida schools and endorsed by some of the nation’s leading
experts on change. It offers the opportunity to learn more about
the elements of change and how they work to produce immediate
and long-term results. As you work in the tutorial, you will
find references and support resources as well as links to key
sites, including those of the “Best Practices” schools.
The visual representation of the process, below, shows the
change process at the heart of each school’s journey—change
driving action.
The
visual illustrates four separate quadrants of this change
process. These four quadrants correspond to the four modules
listed below. Each module presents information at two levels
of change: Immediate Results and Continuous Improvement.
The process of change and school improvement starts with
an evaluation of your school’s current performance,
using Florida School Report (FSR) Data.
FSR Data Analysis
The process continues as you work through each module at
the Immediate Results or Continuous Improvements levels,
as appropriate for your school.
It is recommended that all the individual modules be examined
by administration and faculty for the purposes of appreciating
the scope of change that may be involved. It should come
as no surprise that while individual modules are presented
for clarity’s sake, there is overlap with other modules,
indeed, like the heart and brain of a human, these components
operate in concert with one another for the benefit of the
whole.
Moreover, the process is dynamic. As student population,
community and business partnership, and societal changes
compel constraints and adaptation, the educational process
is circular in that change brings more change.
Next: Module
1: Leading Change
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