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! Read More….

 

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)

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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

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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

 

Official AECT Conference Schedule

See http://www.aect.org/events/program/MyAECT.asp?clientid= for the most up-to-date conference schedule for CHANGE sessions plus all the rest. Visit http://www.aect.org to register.

The CHANGE division membership meeting is Friday @ 3:30 in the Coventry Board Room. All division members and those who are INTERESTED in becoming members should make every effort to attend.

See you all in a month!

 

Extra! Extra! CHANGE Sessions announced for Orlando Conference

Much thanks goes out to the work of Frank Duffy who served as conference planner, the AECT members who served as reviewers, and to the many wonderful scholars who submitted proposals to the CHANGE division for this year’s AECT Conference in Orlando, FL (Nov. 4-8, 2008).

While presenters were notified a few weeks ago, we wanted to share this list of accepted proposals to whet your appetites for the conference and to assist you in planning your week in Orlando. Some of these times/locations may change as conflicts arise, and those changes will be posted here as they come up. If you notice errors in this posting, please contact Frank Duffy or Mary Herring.

One-to-One Computing can Change How and What Teachers Teach

Description:    This session describes year one results of Pennsylvania’s “Classrooms for the Future” program, a high-school reform program that involves one-to-one access to laptop computers in the classroom. Results from surveys, observations, and interviews reveal that the program has significantly: reduced the time teachers spend lecturing; increased the time teachers spend with individuals and groups; increased the attention paid to “21st Century Skills;” increased the “authenticity” of assignments and student activities; and increased constructivist practices.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Barbara Rosenfeld, Brooklyn College

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Captain 

Keywords:    Technology Integration, Research Studies         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Kyle L. Peck, Penn State University

 Copresenter(s):   Robin Clausen, Penn State University 

 

Large Scale Innovations in Dutch Secondary Education: The Voice of School Managers, Teachers, Parents and Students  

Description:    This research gives a voice to school managers, teachers, parents, and students on their experiences concerning three recent large scale, country-wide innovations in Dutch secondary education: the introduction of (1) Basic Secondary School Curriculum in the first few years of secondary education, (2) Second Stage in the upper years of senior secondary education, and (3) pre-vocational secondary education. Results indicated that the stakeholders experienced only minor educational benefits and major negative effects.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Sunnie Watson, Ball State University

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center I 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Evaluation         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Paul Kirschner, Utrecht University

 Copresenter(s):   Frans Prins, Utrecht University 

  

A Case Study of Participatory School Reform in a High-Poverty District

Description:    While there is a consistent call for broad-based stakeholder participation in systemic school reform projects, the costs and the uncertainties of this process have discouraged many schools from involving more than a token number of stakeholders in the reform process. This case study of a citywide attempt at involving citizens in a redesign of an urban school system shows the challenges and successes of this ambitious effort. The impact of political power, both internally and externally is described as a major challenge to such inclusive efforts.

URL:   http://fs.uno.edu/bbeabout/index.htm

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Sunnie Watson, Ball State University

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center I 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Transformational Change         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Brian Beabout, Pennsylvania State University

 

New Ways to Measure Systemic Change: Map & Analyze Patterns & Structures Across Time (MAPSAT)  

Description:    Transforming a school district is a daunting task, likely to take many years. How do we know we are moving in the right direction? Results from standardized tests tell only part of the story. For example, if curriculum structure has substantially changed, how can we measure change in that structure? The authors have developed new methods to measure temporal and structural properties of systems, called MAPSAT. Examples of how MAPSAT can be used in evaluating systemic change will be discussed.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Jim Ellsworth, U.S. Naval War College

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Emerald 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Assessment         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Ted Frick, Indiana University®

 Copresenter(s):   Rodney Myers, Indiana Uiversity® | Kenneth Thompson, System-Predictive Technologies | Sean York, e-College 

 

The Future of Systemic Educational Change – Across Two Horizons  

Description:    This concurrent session will discuss a recent proposal for educational reform in K-12 education in China, and a proposal for transformational systemic change that was implemented last year by AECT, call the Futureminds Initiative. The session will discuss the similarities and contrast between the initiatives in the two countries in terms of historical context and current economic and cultural issues. The last third of the session will be left for discussion and questions.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Paul Kirschner, Utrecht University

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  10:30 AM – 11:30 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Captain 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Transformational Change         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Hoyet Hemphill, Western Illinois University®

 Copresenter(s):   Lixin Zhang, Hebei University | Leaunda Hemphill, Western Illinois University® 

  

The Use of Virtual Workshops: A Study of Innovations in the Systemic Change Process    

Description:    In this presentation I discuss the results of a study of the innovative use of technology to facilitate learning within the systemic change initiative. This initial case we refer to as a virtual workshop, and it allows further understanding of the use of web based learning environments within the context of systemic change. This study serves as a formative evaluation of the use of such workshops while simultaneously constructing a model for future virtual workshop design and implementation.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Paul Kirschner, Utrecht University

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  10:30 AM – 11:30 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Captain 

Keywords:    Distance Education, Systemic Change         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Claudius Rodgers, Indiana University

 

Variables Affecting the Performance of Leadership Teams Pursuing Systemic Change in their Educational Systems

Description:    This presentation will discuss results and ongoing research about effects of different group dynamics (e.g., personality type, attendance, decision-making) affecting the performance of a Leadership Team attempting to implement systemic change in a school district. This presentation intends to provide meaningful information for educational systems that could result in powerful analytical and evaluative tools, and may become instrumental to the improvement of their own design/redesign and implementation of practices and transformation.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Brian Beabout, University of New Orleans

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  10:30 AM – 11:30 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center I 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Leadership         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Daniel Pascoe, Indiana University

 Copresenter(s):   Sari M. Pascoe, Indiana University 

  

Characteristics of High Capacity, Semi-Autonomous Systemic Change Teams: Leaders – Are You Prepared For This?

Description:    Are your large scale innovation/change efforts staying on track? Do you understand the nature of flexible, semi-autonomous teams that mark the organization of the future? This interactive session uses research findings and new models for systemic change to help participants understand what key characteristics are necessary to lead successful, powerful system-wide change teams. Please join us.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Brian Beabout, University of New Orleans

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  10:30 AM – 11:30 AM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center I 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Strategies         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Eugene Kowch, University of Calgary – Faculty of Ed.

 

Innovative Results and Products within the Instructional Technology Academic Community

Description:    This session will explore innovation as a desired result in academic institutions. Innovation will be defined and reasons for having innovation within an organization will be presented. Suggestions for creating an environment for institutions, instructors, and students will be discussed. An instructor with a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology and forty years of experience as a practitioner and teacher will be accompanied by a doctoral student in this presentation.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  TBA

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  2:15 PM – 3:15 PM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Great Hall East 

Keywords:    Faculty Development, Instructional Design         Session Type: Roundtable

Key presenter:   Jessica Frumkin, WSU College of Education IT Offices

 Copresenter(s):   Timothy Spannaus, Wayne State University 

  

 

Presidential Session

 The Purpose of Education in the United States and How Systemic Change can Help Achieve that Purpose  

Description:    In this 60 minute presidential session, Dr. G. Thomas Houlihan will share his views on what he thinks the purpose of education should be in the U.S. and talk about how he thinks systemic change can help achieve that purpose.

Sponsor(s):    Presidential Session, Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Francis Duffy, Professor of Change Leadership in Education

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  2:15 PM – 3:15 PM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Great Hall West 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Transformational Change         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   G. Thomas Houlihan, invited by Francis Duffy  

 

 Conflict Management in Leadership Teams Implementing Change in Educational Systems: A Workshop

Description:    This workshop will provide attendants with a theoretical framework and facilitate interactive exercises to assist the participants’ estimation of important variables of their personal profiles. Participant’s data will assist in the application of team-dynamic and conflict-management taxonomies that could help them learn, develop, and design consensus-building and/or conflict-resolution strategies in their leadership teams; strategies that could be instrumental to their team’s design, development, and implementation of development or change in their educational systems.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Beth Rajan Sockman, East Stroudsburg University

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center F 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Leadership         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Daniel Pascoe, Indiana University

 Copresenter(s):   Sari M. Pascoe, Indiana University

 

Integration of a Decision-Making Process and a Learning Process in a Newly Formed Leadership Team for Systemic Transformation of a School District    

Description:    This study sought to improve some of the process guidelines described in the Guidanace System for Transforming Education (GSTE) by using the qualitative research methodology described as formative research. This methodology asked what worked well, what did not work as well as it could have, and what could be done to improve the process. The current study examined the application of the GSTE in the Leadership Team formation stage of the transformation process.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Rod Myers, Indiana University

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center G 

Keywords:    Transformational Change, Leadership         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Kurt Richter, Indiana University    

 

What Not To Do in Systemic Change: Lessons from a Middle School Change Process

Description:    Change is a difficult and treacherous process. It frequently generates divisiveness and resistance. However, the change process is even more difficult when it attempts to bring about fundamental changes in the culture and structure of a school. This presentation describes the process that one middle school has used to try to bring about such fundamental, systemic transformation, identifies negative consequences that arose from that process, and identifies what the literature on systemic change says about avoiding those problems.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Rod Myers, Indiana University

Length:    30 Minutes (Paired Session)         Timeblock:  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Event Center G 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Strategies         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Charles Reigeluth, Indiana University Bloomington, Dept of Instructional Technology

 Copresenter(s):   Kurt Richter, Indiana University

 

Factors and Components of Mindset Change: A Study of Mindset Change in a Systemic Change Initiative

Description:    The systemic change efforts in a mid-western school district provided an environment for participants to interact with several concepts. These concepts included systems thinking, participatory leadership, and the learner-centered paradigm of instruction. Helping participants to integrate these concepts into their existing ways of thinking is one of the keys to transforming the education system in the district. In this study we identify the factors that influenced the mindset of participants as well as the components of their new mindset.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  TBA

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM        Date: 11/6/08        Location: Great Hall East 

Keywords:    Systemic Change, Transformational Change         Session Type: Roundtable

Key presenter:   Claudius Rodgers, Indiana University

 Copresenter(s):   Chun-Yi Lin, Indiana University

 

Learning Management System Features for Learner Centric Schools  

Description:    The purpose of this session is to; a) present the results of our analysis of the functions and features for an Information-Age LMS that we think will be ideal; and b) present the results of the information sent to us about the features of current LMSs. In addition to presenting our findings, a primary goal of this session is to seek participants’ feedback regarding our ideal features and vendor information, as well as additional ideas that we may have overlooked.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change        Session Facilitator:  Cynthia Holubik, Texas Tech University

Length:    1 Hour         Timeblock:  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM        Date: 11/7/08        Location: Knave 

Keywords:    Management, Technology Centers         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Sunnie Watson, Indiana University

 Copresenter(s):   Charles Reigeluth, Indiana University ® | William Watson, Purdue University ® | Pratima Dutta, Indiana University ® | Clare Chen, Indiana University ® | Nate Powell, Indiana University    

 

High School Evaluation: Determining the Effectiveness of Small Learning Communities

Description:    The purpose of this research study is to determine the effectiveness of the redesign process for a high school into small learning communities.

Sponsor(s):    Division on Systemic Change     Session Facilitator:  Jason Ravitz, Buck Inst. for Education

Length:    1 Hour      Timeblock:  2:15 PM – 3:15 PM      Date: 11/7/08      Location: Coventry Board Room 

Keywords:    Evaluation, Research Studies         Session Type: Concurrent

Key presenter:   Pamela Green, Indiana University

 Copresenter(s):   Charles Reigeluth, Indiana University | Kurt Richter, Indiana University | Sunnie Watson, Indiana University | Chun-Yi Lin, Indiana University® | Clare Chen, Indiana University® 

 

Systemic Change Membership Meeting  

Description:    Systemic Change Membership Meeting  

Length:    1 Hour      Timeblock:  3:30 PM-4:30:00 PM     Date: 11/7/08     Location: Coventry Board Room 

Keywords:    Meetings,         Session Type: Governance Meeting

Key presenter:   Systemic Change Division