A New Paradigm for Organizational Change: Involving Customers and Stakeholders in the Improvement Process

摘要

Education leaders around the country are focusing their schools on achieving results. Under the strict accountability and sanctions of the No Child Left Behind Act, educators are working diligently to find the right recipe of research-based instructional practices, effective professional development programs, and successful school improvement processes in hopes of increasing test scores. The battle and complexity of closing achievement gaps and increasing student learning is evident and so is the need for a paradigm shift in how leaders approach organizational change.