A Problem Statement for Education
resisting change. The incoming Principal ended up being almost the opposite in terms of disposition, leadership style, and educational philosophy. The new Principal, called Skinner for purposes of maintaining anonymity, introduced a series of relatively radical changes to both organizational culture and pedagogy. Several of the younger teachers embraced and celebrated these changes, while a large cohort of tenured teachers resisted these changes. The proposed changes included introducing new technologies into many classrooms that previously had no technological component including English courses, building five bilingual courses into the curriculum with a ten-year plan of having the state’s first fully bilingual study program, changing the type and frequency of… Continue Reading...
