Systemic Change

Systemic Change in General
March 2006 issue of TechTrends -An introduction to systems theory, systemic change processes, and also highlights what all AECT division members can do to participate in systemic change in education.

ISD Knowledge Base-Systems Theory – An introduction to Systems Theory and how it relates to the instructional systems design model.

Systemic Change in K-12 Education
The FM Duffy Reports Archive -Quarterly reports on the challenges of creating and sustaining whole-system change in school districts.

Education Leadership Toolkit – Aimed at School Board members engaged in systemic change.

Systemic Change in Education – A professional development session from NCREL, ready to present, with transparencies, on our favorite topic.

Facilitative Leadership: The Imperative for Change – An online textbook/literature review by Shirley M. Hord.

Local Systemic Change Network- An online database of recent articles on K-12 systemic reform

Systems Change Conference Handouts – Handouts from the 2003 Systems Change conference

A Survey of Educational Change Models – ERIC digest

Associations Related to Systemic Change
Chaos and Complexity Theory SIG at AERA

Creative Learning Exchange (CLE) – This is a school-oriented organization that is affiliated with Senge and others at MIT. They have a pretty good newsletter available from their web site.

International Society for Systems Sciences – Members are systems scientists from around the world. It is the oldest organization for systems scientists, but is fairly small (less than 500 members). Most members are outside of education and training.

International Systems Institute (ISI) – This organization was founded by Bela Banathy and hosts the Asilomar Conversations every fall. I strongly encourage you to consider attending that conference the first week of November.

Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences

Case Studies in Systemic Change
Decatur’s Journey Toward Excellence – A project facilitated by members of the AECT Systemic Change Division.

Learning First Alliance – This alliance has some publications on systemic change case studies.

Saturn School of Tomorrow site – An archived site.

Ackoff Web Site – You can access the web-site for the Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches (ACASA) at the above URL.

Edison Schools – Here is an evaluation of the Edison Schools.

The Learning Federation – Catalyzing a revolution in how we teach and learn: The Learning Federation is a partnership joining companies, universities, government agencies and private foundations to promote a national research plan to create radically improved approaches to teaching and learning enabled by information technology.

Last Modified: October 5 , 2007
by William Watson , Communications Officer
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