To improve the state of Georgia's response to severe weather, Governor Nathan Deal appointed a 28 member task force. A few years ago, when Atlanta educators were accused of changing answers on student tests sheets, the Governor (Sonny Perdue) appointed a panel of...
Systems thinking teaching and learning can happen in any classroom, but it has a better chance of being successful when the school's principles and policies are rooted in systems thinking. However, as you will find out, the qualities that characterize systems...
If You Think Student Output as Measured by Achievement Tests Is a Way to Evaluate Teachers, You'd Be Plug Wrong! What will it take to convince school boards, departments of education and administrators that using student achievement scores, one of the outputs that we...
If You Think Student Output as Measured by Achievement Tests Is a Way to Evaluate Teachers, You'd Be Plug Wrong! What will it take to convince school boards, departments of education and administrators that using student achievement scores, one of the outputs that we...
For the past 13 years, American schools have endured a rebirth of an "industrial culture" that is the product of "mechanistic age thinking," described in-depth by Russell L. Ackoff (public library) in his writings, speeches, interviews and courses. This rebirth has...
In this article I am going to argue that the kind of thinking that will be required to reform education has been part of our culture for decades, but it runs counter to ways that reformists have been "tinkering" with schools, K - college. This "tinkering" is playing...
