A Description of SEDL's Intensive Sites: Working Systemically to Create High-Performing Learning Communities
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In December of the year 2000, SEDL was awarded the regional education laboratory (REL) contract to serve the five-state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. In its proposal, SEDL developed a scope of work that responded to the U.S. Department of Education's request for proposals to "transform low-performing schools into high-performing learning communities." This scope of work included fieldwork planned for multiple sites in each state and a research component to follow and document the work. The result of such work and its documentation would make possible the creation of procedural knowledge that would inform others about how such work might be enacted, under what conditions, with what potential for success. This work would be the focus of attention by a majority of SEDL REL staff.
This paper provides a report of the sites identified by SEDL for its work across the five-year contract. The first section of the paper is a brief commentary about the preparation that SEDL undertook for identifying the districts within the five states, and the criteria for the selection of sites. A second section gives a brief account of the experiences of SEDL in recruiting the sites and its entry and planned work in the sites. The third section identifies and describes the sites in which SEDL is working, and the status of the work at each of the sites at the end of FY01; this section is the major focus of this report.
Documents related to the Working Systemically model include:
This paper provides a report of the sites identified by SEDL for its work across the five-year contract. The first section of the paper is a brief commentary about the preparation that SEDL undertook for identifying the districts within the five states, and the criteria for the selection of sites. A second section gives a brief account of the experiences of SEDL in recruiting the sites and its entry and planned work in the sites. The third section identifies and describes the sites in which SEDL is working, and the status of the work at each of the sites at the end of FY01; this section is the major focus of this report.
Documents related to the Working Systemically model include:
- SEDL's Working Systemically Model: Final Report (2006)
- Summary Report: Alignment in SEDL's Working Systemically Model (2004)
- Alignment in SEDL's Working Systemically Model (2004)
- Progress Report to Districts and Schools: SEDL's Working Systemically Model (2003)
- Research Report: A Description of SEDL's Intensive Sites (2002)
