Success for All: Improving the Quality of Implementation of Whole-School Change through the Use of a National Reform Network.

Autor/inn/en	Cooper, Robert; Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A.
Titel	Success for All: Improving the Quality of Implementation of Whole-School Change through the Use of a National Reform Network.
Quelle	(1998), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Change Strategies; Educational Change; Educational Innovation; Elementary Secondary Education; Models; Professional Development; Program Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Analogiemodell
Abstract	The role and importance of national reform network participation in the implementation of one of the most successful U.S. whole-school reform efforts--Success for ALL (SFA)--is profiled here. The paper explores this educational network beyond professional development and examines the relationship between participation in SFA's national reform network activities and the quality of program implementation. Part 1 briefly describes the SFA model for school change and its major components. Then, after presenting a theoretical framework for understanding educational networks and how they can be used in supporting whole-school change, the analysis turns to how network activities are used to facilitate quality implementation of SFA. Two types of network activities are explored: (1) participation in a national conference; and (2) participation in local support network activities. The findings illuminate key connections between network participation and the quality implementation of whole-school change. It is suggested that national reform network activities play a key role in the development and expansion of whole-school change models. Appended is a list of the variables explored under the headings outcome measures, program structure, and reading curriculum/strategies. (Contains 18 references.) (RJM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC