Operational Components: Key Concepts
To implement paradigm change in school districts, stakeholders in an educational system will need to understand, accept, and apply the following key concepts:
- Personal mindsets about education need to be reframed so that individuals develop a world-view that is more effective for solving local educational problems and meeting new educational needs for the Information-Age.
- Systems thinking and systemic transformational change are needed to solve the complex problem of transforming entire school districts.
- Systematic instructional planning is an integral element of any effort to create and sustain systemic change that aims to transform the core of schooling (classroom teaching and learning)—transforming the core is one of three key sets of transformational changes that must be made(the other two are transform the system’s relationships with its external environment and transform the system’s internal social infrastructure).
- Involving parents and community stakeholders early and often in a district’s transformation journey so that their expectations, dreams, and concerns for their districts are identified and considered is necessary to gain external political support for systemic transformational change.
- Strategically aligning a school system’s vision and strategic goals with the system’s external environment is essential for the success of systemic transformational change.
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