Dynamic Change and Collaborative Learning Environments :: Education, Leadership and Organizational Theory

Dynamic Change and Collaborative Learning Environments The continuous transformation in educational organization requires investigation of how the organization can be equipped to collaboratively handle constant changes and still improve. Leadership and organizational theory provide the support into looking at how an organization functions and how change happens within that organization. educational organizations are always trying to catch up hence, a system of improvement is necessary for teachers to have direct access to in-house experts to entertain. (W. W. polish off, 2008) identifies an educational environment as an open system because it depends on a constant connection with the environment. The literature offers many distinctions about the what of change, such as planned or unplanned however, thither is a lack of information about the why and how of implementing change. Burke (2008) refers to the what part of change as content and the how as the process. As stat ed by Burke (2008), management consulting tends to focus on the content- on what needs to be changed. The process of how to bring about the change is either ignored or left to others, oddly the client, to implement (p. 165). Dufour and Eaker (1998), report that trying to change beliefs and habits will be complex and difficult to achieve. They state, if a change initiative is to be sustained, the elements of that change must be embedded with in the culture of the school (p. 133). As stated by Fullan (2008), Systems can apprise on a continuous basis. The synergistic result of the prior five secrets in action is tantamount to a system that learns from itself (p 14). Performance and outcomes will always change so the system will have to learn from itself in order to move forward with changes for continual success. In addition, Bandura (1997) supports the idea of a system learning from itself when he says that people can and do control their own motivation and thought process u sing observation and self-assessment to change their behaviors and attain goals. Peer observation is one way the system (the school) can learn from itself. The Professional Learning Community as a whole is the stakeholder. Administrators, teachers, staff, and students all hold a piece to the success of a community of learners that look to sum up their knowledge capacity by learning from each other.