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Redesigning
America’s Schools: Saving a Nation At Risk
An Essay
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The Center for School
Redesign™ will help America’s school leaders to increase the success of
ALL students by facilitating the redesign of schools. The Center offers
services tailored to the specific district or school situation.
These services include consulting
and materials
for
• Strategic Planning
• Redesigning Schools
for Small Learning
Communities and Teacher Collaboration
• Curriculum
Development
• Assessment
Development
• Leadership for
Teacher Collaboration
• School and District
Needs Assessment
• School and
District Program
Evaluation
• Individual
Coaching for Leaders
• Action Learning
Groups for Leaders
Principals and other
school leaders are in charge of what goes on in the school. They
must demonstrate their knowledge and commitment to improving learning
results and the changes necessary for improvement. A recent
meta-analysis of research on leadership in schools found significant,
positive correlations between student achievement and these leadership
responsibilities:
• the principal’s
communicating strong ideals
and beliefs about schooling and
• the principal’s
knowledge of practices, and involvement in the
design and implementation, of
curriculum, instruction, and assessment.*
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The Center for School
Redesign™ supports and facilitates the work of school leaders. We
work with leaders to build their knowledge and skills related to the
redesign efforts to be undertaken in the school. School leaders
take the “lead role” in introducing, explaining, and training for
changes in the school. The Center offers training and coaching
for leaders as well as support by providing materials, workshop design,
planning assistance, and evaluation and monitoring services. The
Center plays a supporting role in the delivery of training to staff and
may be present at the training sessions, but the school and district
leaders play the prominent role in all sessions.
The benefit of this
approach is that teachers get the message of change directly from their
leaders who demonstrate
• their ideals and beliefs about schooling;
• their knowledge of, and involvement in,
curriculum, instruction, and assessment design and implementation;
and
• their commitment to, and passion for, the
change.
*Marzano,
R. J., Waters, T., & McNulty, B. A. (2005). School leadership that
works: From research to results. Alexandria, VA.: Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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Contact us to begin a
discussion of how the Center for School Redesign™ can
help you lead
your school or district to higher learning results for all students.
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