Asking the Right Questions: A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement

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Audience(s): Administrators and Policymakers

Product Description:

This guidebook is designed to help school leaders, particularly principals, think systemically as they examine school improvement issues and make decisions about change.

Key Ideas:

• Small changes in systems, such as schools, often have complex and unforeseen effects. Despite the neat, pyramid-like structure often ascribed to schools through organizational charts, schools tend to operate much more like living systems. But thinking about school reform on a systemic level is often easier said than done.
• Because of the difficulty involved in that process, the goal of this publication is to offer a straightforward process that school leaders can use to think systemically about their schools.

APA Citation:

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning. (2000). Asking the right questions: A leader's guide to systems thinking about school improvement. Aurora, CO: Author.