Award Winners to be announced at Systemic Change Membership Meeting

Ali (our incoming president) wanted to remind everyone to attend the general membership meeting for both your input and to congratulate (and/or to receive ) award winners.

 

Reminder to Vote; Agenda Items

Hard to believe it has almost been a year since our last AECT conference! Look forward to seeing everyone again soon.

 

A couple of quick requests in preparation for the meeting:

1. Please vote! The Systemic Change Award voting deadline is Sept. 15th, 2009 .

Email A li Carr-Chellman at aac3@psu.edu  to nominate someone for one of four awards.  

2. Agenda items for our business meeting are needed.

Please give us your input for the agenda  ( Note to visit this survey more than once from the same computer clear your browser’s cookies ).

 

Systemic Change 09-10 and 10-11 Incoming Officers and Board Members

Congratulations to all incoming officers and board members for the Systemic Change Division! 

Incoming Officers, October, 2009 (Ali, Gene, and Brian became officers-elect at the October, 2008 AECT conference. They will transition into the officer positions at the October, 2009 conference)

1. Ali Carr-Chellman, president-elect, becomes president in October, 2009
2. Eugene Kowch, communications officer-elect, becomes communications officer, October, 2009
3. Brian Beabout, secretary-elect, becomes secretary, October, 2009
4. Francis Duffy, immediate past president in October, 2009

Incoming Officers-Elect, October, 2009 (these people were elected to the officer-elect positions this past spring but they do not officially become officers-elect until the October, 2009 AECT conference)

1.  Sunnie Lee Watson, becomes president-elect in October, 2009 and president in October, 2010
2.  Kurt Richter, becomes communications officer-elect, October, 2009 and communications officer in October, 2010
3. William Watson, becomes secretary-elect, October, 2009 and secretary in October, 2010.

2009-2010 Division Board Members starting October, 2009

1. Charles Reigeluth
2. Jerry Kemp
3.  Luis Almeida
4. Francis Duffy becomes Division representative on the AECT board of directors

 

AECT’s Systemic Change Division Sponsors 2009 Awards

AECT’s Systemic Change Division is sponsoring four different awards to recognize significant contributions to the field of systemic change.  Read More….

 

2009-2014 Strategic Directions for Systemic Change Division (Download)

Download Strategic Directions

Hello colleagues,

I hope this note finds each of you happy, healthy, and functioning at peak performance.

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he didn’t present solutions to problems. He didn’t say “We’ve got race problems in this country and I have some ideas for changing that.”

No, he said, “ I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream .” And, in expressing his dream for the future of race relations in the United States of America he captured the hearts and minds of a generation of Americans.

Our challenge is to create an idealized future for the Division for Systemic Change—a future that is deeply and irrevocably connected to AECT and one that is sharply focused on transforming the way teachers teach and the way children learn in school systems.

Our challenge, of course, is not the same as the one that Dr. King and people of color faced back then. Nevertheless, it is an important challenge because if we succeed in creating the future we envision for the Division we will have a profound and enduring effect on teaching and learning in the United States and throughout the world. We recognize this challenge and we must rise up to meet it.

The attached document represents our dream for the future of the Division. It serves as a blueprint for creating an idealized future for the Division for Systemic Change. We cannot create the idealized future that we envision without your help. Please review the scenarios in the attached document and find a place for yourself in those scenarios. We know there is a place in there for you. Find a way to help. Identify a task in which to engage. Help us, please, to create a division that is a powerful and highly respected advocate for transforming teaching and learning in school systems.

After you find a place for yourself in the strategic plan, please contact me and let me know. Also, as you engage in tasks that support the plan, please report your results to me so we can keep track of our progress.

Thank you.

Frank

Download Strategic Directions

 

Change Division Call for Proposals Now Open

Hi All you Change Members!

The Change Division call for proposals is now live: http://aect.org/events/Call/login.asp?

Here it is pasted below as well so you can get a sense of what we’re looking for this year.

ALSO– if you’d like to review proposals , please do send me your information as I’d love to have assistance with that part of the process as well. Thank you and I look forward to reading your wonderful ideas on systemic change throughout the proposal process.

Ali
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True Systemic Change represents significant transformation in broad ways. One of the most important sub-themes in this year’s AECT conference is centered on change that really transforms learning and instruction. The systemic change division remains interested in not just transformation of learning and instruction, but broader forms of school and organizational transformation as well. The division is particularly interested in multi-disciplinary work, stakeholder involvement, technology integration in transformative ways, and the connection of research to practice in ways that can help us see the real world potential of true systemic change. We will be particularly interested in proposals which help us to understand the sustainable transformative power of systemic change, and not just change of any sort.

For questions regarding proposals to then Division on Systemic Change please contact:
Alison Carr-Chellman at aac3@psu.edu.

 

Systemic Change Division 2008 AECT Meeting Overview

Led by incoming 08-09 Systemic Change Division officers President Frank Duffy, Secretary-Treasurer Sunnie Lee Watson, and Communications Officer Anthony Chow, the meeting, which was attended by 13 additional members, addressed the division’s goals for the coming year. As a result of the meeting, President Frank Duffy will be drafting two to three major scenarios identifying where the division would like to work towards and achieve; he will bring this to the general membership for discussion and ratification.

Download minutes taken by Secretary-Treasurer Sunnie Lee Watson

Download additional minutes taken by 07-08 Communications Officer Brian Beabout

 

CHANGE listserv down, stay tuned to this blog for conference updates

Since the ongoing problem with the AECT listservs has not been resolved, be sure to stay tuned to this blog for important updates on next week’s AECT conference in Orlando. I’ll be posting updates on the conference, here and if division members have information to be shared with the group, send it to me at: bbeabout@uno.edu. Sorry for the inconvenience, and I’ll be doing what I can to keep the information flowing until we get the listserv back.

Thanks, and see you all in a few days.

 

Special Sessions @ AECT in Orlando

Here are two sessions I have been asked to draw your attention to as you put your schedule together for Orlando:

 

1) Presidential Session: “The Purpose of Education in the United States and How Systemic Change can Help Achieve that Purpose” 2:15 to 3:15 P.M. on Thursday, November 6, 2008 in Great Hall West.

This year the speaker for our Presidential Session is Dr. G. Thomas Houlihan. Dr. Houlihan is the retired executive director for the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The CCSSO is the professional association for state superintendents of school. Dr. Houlihan is highly regarded in the field of education as a transformational leader with a deep and profound interest in systemic change.

 

2) Informal Learning: A Discussion with George Strawn; NSF CIO Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1:00-2:00; Cambridge Room

 

This discussion will address the potential impact of the informal learning on the formal learning process and visions for the future directions. The National Science Foundation supports many initiatives that study with informal learning settings. These settings offer fewer constraints for the use of emergent technologies but can be adapted to learning objectives. NSF is averaging around $17 million per year on interactive systems for learning. How do gaming, virtual environments or other interactive environments affect informal learning? Join Keynote speak, George Strawn, to discuss the impact of these new ways of learning.

 

 

 

Deborah Meier on Education

From John Merrow’s Learning Matter’s Group. An interview with NYU faculty member and former Central Park East principal Deborah Meier. Touches on the purposes of formal education, NCLB, the role of policymakers, inequality, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/merrow/rss/media/120.mp3