Document Type
Issue Area Three
Abstract
While working with the change process in our school district these past five years, I have recognized that educators cannot assume that our students are like those from the past, nor that their parents are Ward and June Cleaver, ever ready to support what we strive to attain in our schools with the students. And just as our students and parents have changed, so has the entire world for which we prepare these students. As the twentieth century's hammers and wrenches are being displaced by numbers and buttons in the twenty-first century, a whole new kind of learning must begin to prepare our students for the dynamic, changing society in which they will live and work. The immediate consequence of this rapid change in society is that the stakeholders-- the board of directors, the administration, the teachers, and even the parents and their students-have had to respond to conditions and needs with which they have had little or no experience. We have recognized that if we are to respond effectively in our district to those needs, then adults talking to and learning with other adults must become the norm on this never-ending journey of change. Study teams were chosen in our district as the vehicle to provide the ongoing organizational development needed for quality in our students' learning to achieve its potential.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
80
Last Page
82
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
Howell, Lou
(1994)
"Study Teams: Our Vehicle for this Journey Called Change,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 24.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss1/24
