Document Type
Issue Area Five
Abstract
The largest single barrier to implementing meaningful change is time. Complex problems resist quick remedies, and no one has enough time to adequately deal with school transformation issues. The more complex the problem facing a school district, the more there is a need for broad-based support in solving it. Finding the time for school and community members to get together is problematic.
A school that is serious about change and about teams of teachers exerting influence beyond the walls of their own classrooms must deal with the issue of time. A school must be committed to giving real time to the process of school improvement. This is the only way to insure that a team of diverse individuals can work collaboratively for real change in the school. The developmental aspect of the collegial model requires a lot of time - and patience.
The group dealing with the issue of time examined it from several perspectives. Most agreed that real solutions to the time dilemma require a rethinking of the many "systems" operating within the school system which effect time. The group identified four critical issues for resolution.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
149
Last Page
152
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
Smith, Daniel H. and Van Hemert, Gary
(1994)
"Issue Area Five: Time to Plan, Implement and Institutionalize School-Based Shared Decision-Making: Where Does it Come From and How Do We Use it Most Effectively?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 42.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss1/42
