December 14, 2009
Please accept our warmest wishes of this season – for this season (and spring) invite change. At this time of year we celebrate renewal, kinship, well wishes and hope for a great new year ! Let’s all ”raise a glass” to change, renewal and to great happenings in 2010 !
November 25, 2009
We are proud to present/celebrate colleagues who won the prestigious Systemic Change Awards at the 2009 AECT International Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. 
2009 AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE CHANGE DIVISION: Dr. Charles M. Reigeluth (Change Division Founder – and patient mentor!).
2009 OUTSTANDING CHANGE JOURNAL ARTICLE AWARD: 
Dr. Sunnie Lee Watson & Dr. Charles M. Reigeluth: Community members perceptions on social, cultural changes and its implication for education transformation in a small school district community. See this fine article here in the Journal of Organization Transformation and Social Change.
2009 OUTSTANDING CHANGE BOOK AWARD: Dr. Francis M. Duffy & Dr. Patti L. Chance: 
November 25, 2009
AECT Change Division Members! Thank you all for a fantastic conference, Louisville was fantastic and we’re so proud of our award winners in our inaugural awards program. Ali.
April 19, 2009
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
September 26, 2008
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.
April 19, 2008
This 1999 New york Times article discusses the Celebration School, which was a collaboration between a number of well-known educational reformers and the Disney-created town of Celebratoin, Florida. It’s a classic example of the tension between theory-based reforms (created outside of schools) and the public who has the ultimate authority to reject or accept a particular school.
Perhaps some of those invovled in this reform attempt might be invited to a panel discussion at the 2008 AECT conference in Orlando?
More information on the Celebration School can be found in the following book chapter:
Boorman, L. M., Glickman, E., & Haag, A. (2000). Creating a school culture from the ground up: The case of Celebration School. In K. A. Riley & K. S. Louis (Eds.), Leadership for change and school reform: International perpectives (pp. 185-210). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
December 21, 2007
Congratulations to Kurt Richter for successfully defending his dissertation at Indiana University! Given Kurt’s contribution to the Change division and the interest his topic might generate among our membership, it seemed appropriate to post a link to it here.
Part of the abstract:
The Guidance System for Transforming Education (GSTE) is a design theory
used to facilitate systemic transformation in public school districts. This study sought to
improve some of the process guidelines described in the GSTE by using the qualitative
research methodology described as formative research (Reigeluth & Frick, 1999). 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 middle stages of the systemic transformation process with a
Leadership Team of 20-25 stakeholders in a public school district that consists of 5,954
students in a semi-urban, Midwestern setting.
Link to full dissertation:
Thanks for sharing your work Kurt!
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