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This book chapter by LEC Forum authors from Redesigning Schools for the New Century: A Systems Approach (Keefe & Howard, 1997, NASSP) contrasts traditional and comprehensive approaches to the school change process and explains the components of the School Improvement Process and School Design Statement advocated by LEC International for systemic school renewal.
Implementing and Living with Change
This original LEC Forum article discusses the historical background, successful program characteristics, implementation barriers and some special features of change process in American schools.
This book chapter by LEC Forum authors from Redesigning Schools for the New Century: A Systems Approach (Keefe & Howard, 1997, NASSP) discusses the basic components of the School Design Statement and cites sample design descriptors and specifications.
The Systemic Design Components
This book chapter by LEC Forum authors from Redesigning Schools for the New Century: A Systems Approach (Keefe & Howard, 1997, NASSP) discusses the systemic components of the School Design Statement and presents excerpts of sample design descriptors and pecifications that are provided in greater detail in the original.
The School as a Learning Organization
This NASSP BULLETIN article by LEC Forum authors describes the school in terms of Peter Senge’s Five Disciplines and the interplay of school cultural values, norms and expectations. The characteristics of successful learning organizations are discussed as well as strategies that school leaders can embrace to become a learning team.
This book chapter by LEC Forum authors from Redesigning Schools for the New Century: A Systems Approach (Keefe & Howard, 1997, NASSP) contrasts transactional and transformational leadership approaches and explains the three critical roles of leaders –as designers, stewards and teachers — described by Peter Senge.