Tools for Change

Below you will find free articles, case studies, and position papers to help you think about, understand, and articulate the need for change in your community. We offer many useful tools to school and district leaders; however, we know that leadership, more than our tools, is the key to transforming schools. Until leaders use the tools we provide and encourage others to use them, these tools have little meaning. Here we provide free access to some of our tools and encourage you to share and discuss them with others interested in school change.

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Schlechty Center on Change

This document outlines the Schlechty Center's framework for the transformation of schools from organizations in which the core business is producing compliance and attendance to organizations in which the core business is nurturing attention and commitment.

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Schlechty Center on Engagement

This document explores the Schlechty Center's concept of engagement, examining both five levels of student engagement and the Design Qualities teachers may attend to in order to increase the likelihood of students' being engaged.

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Schlechty Center on Design

This document from the Schlechty Center focuses attention on ways schools can utilize design to provide engaging learning experiences for students and on ways districts can use design to transform themselves from bureaucracies into learning organizations.

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Student Engagement and Its Relation to Quality Work Design: A Review of the Literature

This literature review by Betty Bowen of Forsyth County Schools in Georgia examines the research supporting Phillip C. Schlechty's position on the relationship between quality work and student engagement.

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Premium Tools

We understand that making the conscious choice to transform districts into learning organizations will require not only vision and courage but also support and tools. It is for this reason that the Schlechty Center has developed a suite of tools to aid school leaders through the redefinition of key leadership roles. In addition, the major Schlechty Center ideas, frameworks, and tools developed over the years are brought together and organized in a single document, A Strategy for District Transformation, to give leaders a comprehensive view of the work of transformation, including guidance in charting their district's progress on the journey.

Contact Diane Chambers at 502.895.1942 or info@schlechtycenter.org to purchase our premium tools.

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