This strategy will support their efforts in meeting their identified focus based on the Ventures outcome and performance indicators. In Phase Three, participants present an exhibition of their achievement. To join the program, fill out an application form and obtain your district's superintendent's approval to participate in program and payment of fees. To improve student learning through an awareness of the school's culture as a system that can be influenced with such powerful tools as symbolic action and symbolic language. To improve student performance by creating a shared understanding of the actions individuals must engage in to improve student achievement.
Ventures is an integrated approach to academic leadership and action research.
The data that participants collect about their schools are the central content for the curriculum in Ventures seminars. The Ventures curriculum engages participants in analyzing their school data using a variety of theoretical frameworks. This analysis prompts them to develop hypotheses about the relationship between what they observe in their schools and what they learn about the influences of organizational culture on behavior and the conditions that support powerful learning. The Ventures curriculum is designed to enable participants to develop a school transformation strategy based on careful study of the organizational culture in their schools. Lecturettes, dialogue, videos, readings, reflections and group-generated knowledge are the main instructional strategies used.