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...
Is the Atlanta School Board (APS) going to think differently? Its composition is different than it was a year ago. Six of the nine member board were elected to the Board in November. On January 14th, the Atlanta School Board met to discuss the nature of the school...
