Schlechty Center

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.

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.

This chart, developed by Phillip Schlechty, contrasts the metaphor of a learning organization with bureaucratic metaphors making it possible to discuss and understand some relatively threatening aspects of existing operations.

These 10 Standards are the foundation of the Schlechty Center's assessment of a district's capacity to support transformation.

A .pdf template for designing a lesson or unit of work for your students. You can type into this form and save to your desktop. The boxes will not change sizes although you can type an unlimited amount of text in each box.

 

Today, Orange Schools’ values, its commitments to students and staff, its sense of purpose and focus, as well as the relationships between teachers and principals, between students and the adults in the district, between staff and the school board, and between the superintendent and other leaders across the district, are markedly different than what they were in 1997. The Schlechty Center tells the story of this northeastern Ohio school district's transformation in this case study.

 

This paper by Phillip C. Schlechty contends that America’s schools are being transformed from vital community institutions into government agencies and that, rather than serving as centers of civic life, schools are becoming instruments of state and national policy—more concerned with economic development than with the transmission of culture and more oriented toward issues associated with international competitiveness than with concern about national character.

This document was created by a subgroup of members of the Superintendents Leadership Network in April 2004. It addresses the relati onship between the superintendent and school board.

This document was created by a subgroup of members of the Superintendents Leadership Network in April 2004. It addresses the role of those district-level leaders in the central office and the superintendents's role in causing this role change to occur.

"Moving from Vision to Mission: Student-Centered Schools, Future-Ready Students" was published in TASA's professional journal, INSIGHT, in the Spring 2012 issue. 

This file contains 12 questions that may be used with students in a focus group setting.