Leadership Institute for Superintendents: Systemic Reform in School Districts and Schools

Harvard Graduate School of Education, via email:

Superintendents today are faced with the challenge of developing quality school systems that create opportunities for success for all of their students. In the complicated environment of standards-based reform, superintendents need to be able to improve their district as a whole.

To do this, they must understand how to work with the leaders in their district to improve the whole system--and refuse to settle for just a few good schools. They must inspire a sense of urgency and convince those they work with to embrace the goal of all students graduating, ready for post secondary education, without remediation.

This is critical in order to have opportunity in the workplace, fulfill civic responsibilities, and lead a good life. How do you make this happen in an environment where resources are scarce, competing interests for resources are many, and the capacity for change is limited within the traditional approaches that are no longer applicable in a rapidly changing society?

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 18, 2009 1:33 AM
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