Document Type
Issue Area Two
Abstract
"Changing the system" is never easy. For a district to move to shared decision-making requires an understanding of how organizations and the people within them function. Let me an athletic analogy. Suppose a coach wants to change his team's playing. That coach wants to move from a methodical, half-court game to an up-tempo, pressure style. How does he make that happen? He could go out and get all new players, but that is unlikely. A good coach will ask himself some vital questions. What skills do the players need to be successful? What principles do they need in to make this new style work? How do they have to change their mental approach to the game even if the new process or style is in place? He would never just tell the players the game strategy is going to change and then expect them to do it without significant preparation. It is too bad that educators have taken this latter approach to systemic change issues such as shared decision-making.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
65
Last Page
68
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1994 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wittmer, Mark J.
(1994)
"Shared Decision Making: Proceed . . . But With Caution,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 21.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss1/21
