Quantifying the Qualitative to Advance Reform: Using Complexity Theory to Conceptualize Educational Change

• In Event: Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Emerging Themes in Educational Change: Shifting Roles, New Technologies, and Complexity

Abstract

Drawing on the work of Leadership Academy with early career, urban school principals from charter, district and Catholic schools, this paper employs the complex adaptive system model to understand the experience of these urban school leaders--conceptualizing their work in both qualitative and quantitative way--as a means to gain insight into effective educational change strategies.

Author

• Patrick J. McQuillan, Boston College