Organizational Learning and Effective School Interventions

• In Event: Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: Instructional Interventions: Designs, Enactment, and Challenges

Abstract

This research evaluates the impact of organizational learning on the effective implementation of a middle school 6th and 7th grade intervention strategy. Many promising school interventions are unsuccessful because they are implemented in schools that do not have the readiness to innovate and learn. Business leaders have found that a failure to implement effectively is often a result of limitations in the organizational culture and structure. Annual surveys of organizational learning were given to the staff of seven schools implementing a new intervention, CareerStart, in order to assess their ability to work as an organizational learning team. Preliminary findings suggest that higher reported organizational learning was associated with higher implementation fidelity. Implications for policy and practices are discussed.

Authors

• Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, Brigham Young University

• Dennis K. Orthner, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Lela Machado, Brigham Young University

• Roderick Rose, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill