Design-Based School Improvement for Educational Equity

• In Event: 32.023 - School Leaders' Roles and Actions Toward Improvement

Abstract

The pursuit of educational equity demands school improvement, but the existing knowledge base leaves the educational field and educational leaders shorthanded about how to act on equity-relevant problems in schools. Leaders need to know a process through which school change can take place, and the field needs the practical design knowledge that their change efforts yield. Design-based school improvement describes how school leaders can develop context-sensitive, results-oriented interventions for their organizations while generating practical design knowledge that can travel to other contexts. This conceptual paper outlines the main ideas of a proposed model of design-based school improvement and its connections to improvement science and design research.

Authors

• Rick Mintrop, University of California - Berkeley

• Mahua Baral, University of California - Berkeley

• Elizabeth Zumpe, University of California - Berkeley