ABSTRACT

Schools address students’ educational needs by delivering a range of traditional and innovative programs. Selecting, implementing, and sustaining a new program is a school improvement initiative. Despite investments of (often) substantial resources, many such programs have relatively short school lives. Effective educational initiatives need to survive in order to continue to deliver personal, social, and economic benefits. However, practical guidance for sustainable implementation of new initiatives in school settings is relatively lacking. Drawing from literature and interviews with 70 school leaders and teachers, we created and delivered to 10 educational sites a self-assessment site improvement tool. Principal components analysis identified 20 components, and feedback from sites indicated the practical usefulness of the tool. Adopting a systems perspective with explicit attention to interactions between goals, processes, and emerging outcomes has the potential to generate more thorough consideration of the range of components that influence sustained program implementation leading to site improvement.

摘要

学校通过提供一系列传统和创新课程来满足学生的教育需求。选择，实施和维持一项新计划是一项学校改进计划。尽管投入（经常）投入大量资源，但许多此类课程的学校寿命相对较短。有效的教育计划需要生存，以便继续提供个人，社会和经济利益。但是，相对缺乏在学校环境中可持续实施新举措的实用指南。我们根据文献资料以及对70位学校领导和老师的访谈，创建了一个自我评估网站改进工具，并将其交付给10个教育网站。主成分分析确定了20个成分，现场反馈表明该工具的实用性。