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media type="custom" key="2572013" media type="custom" key="2574507" media type="custom" key="2575681" [|Creating the Capacity to Support Innovations (Occasional Paper #2)]Schlechty defines and focuses on capacity building in schools. "Unless schools can be repositioned," writes Schlechty, "it is unlikely that they will have the capacity to support the kind of disruptive innovations that will be needed to ensure a healthy future for public education in America." //(From Phillip C. Schlechty, Schlechty Center, Louisville, Ky.)// [|Meeting of Minds Along the Merrimack: Principals Networking to Enhance Instruction]Two minds, it is said, are better than one. This is especially true when we are trying to break out of old patterns and ways of doing things to create ways of doing things that are better fitted to the present and its needs. The efforts of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), the Northeast and Islands Regional Laboratory at Brown University (LAB) and a group of serving principals in old industrial New England were focused on the creation of a collaboration-driven initiative to find practical solutions to the fundamental questions of the practice of education in the third millennium for the benefit of their most vulnerable children. //(From Cheryl Riggins Newby, NAESP, in collaboration with the Education Alliance at Brown University)// [|Managing Change in Education in the 21st Century: Repositioning State Schools in Challenging Times]This speech given at a conference of principals in Australia focuses on the need for better change management in schools. Change “myths” are broken down and recommendations and ideas for successful change are suggested. It is a very valuable text for any administrator seeking to avoid mistakes when implementing change. //(From Scott, Geoff. NSW Secondary Principals’ Conference, Leura, Australia, 2000)// [|PLOT Homepage] - You can contact Joan and David for temporary access code to this website. You may then choose to opt into this online environment after this.
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