With respect to organizational capacity building, one of the most important factors to consider in moving from a traditional system to one that emphasizes the achievement of challenging and meaningful outcomes by all students is the translation of the organizational development skills required to support systemic change into standard operating procedures for the school district. Further, navigating the transition between organizational paradigms requires school leaders to demonstrate exceptional skill, patience, fortitude, and foresight. Commitment to a systems perspective. Perhaps the most challenging and yet most fundamental requirement of all, this commitment calls for defining learning outcomes that will serve not only as the basis for curriculum development efforts but also as the decision screen for selecting the most promising Instructional strategies to help students achieve the learning outcomes. However, the return on that Investment can yield significant dividends in terms of student learning.
Tremendous opportunities accompany the great challenges.
We can make a real difference in student learning by leading our schools through the changes needed to become genuine outcome based systems for teaching and learning. Text is intended solely for the use of the individual user. 60 Issue 5, p13, 4p.