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Putting the Pieces Together

Leadership for Change in Low-Performing Urban Schools

Margaret Terry Orr

Bank Street College, morr{at}bnkst.edu

Barbara Berg

Region 6, New York City Department of Education

Rima Shore

Bank Street College

Ellen Meier

Columbia University

This article presents a collaborative inquiry analysis of the school improvement experiences of four persistently low-performing schools. It draws on the experiences of three members of the Laboratory for the Design and Redesign of Schools (LDRS) consortium who helped during their planning for restructuring or restructuring phases and one regional official who oversaw their grant support and school improvement interventions. The authors explore the role of organizational change to improved teaching and learning in the schools. The schools' mixed leadership and organizational capacity and belief in their teaching efficacy limited the benefits of state, district, and regional supports and resources, which school leaders were ill-equipped to coordinate. Combining leadership and organizational development with curricular and instructional reform models would be more promising.

Key Words: change • low-performing schools • leadership • accountability • organizational learning

Education and Urban Society, Vol. 40, No. 6, 670-693 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0013124508324018
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