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Session Type: Symposium
All districts engage in instructional decision making as they work to support instruction, which has wide-ranging consequences for students’ opportunities to learn. While existing research attends to the complex roles of human actors in decision making, it has not attended to how features of the institutional and organizational context in school systems shape the dynamics of these deliberative processes. Leveraging longitudinal data from five school systems across multiple studies and drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks, the papers in this symposium present unique insights into the instructional decision-making process.
Organizational Routines as a Vehicle for Instructional Decision Making in School Systems - Lok-Sze Wong, Northwestern University; Rachel C Feldman, American Educational Research Association; Christopher Harrison, Florida Southern College; Kristen L. Davidson, University of Colorado - Boulder; James P. Spillane, Northwestern University
Representations of Stakeholders in School District Policy Making - Caitlin Farrell, University of Colorado - Boulder; Annie Allen, University of Colorado - Boulder
Reason-Giving in Educational Decision Making: The Role of Research and Data - Alice Huguet, The RAND Corporation; Caitlin Farrell, University of Colorado - Boulder; Annie Allen, University of Colorado - Boulder; Debbie Kim, Northwestern University; Cynthia E. Coburn, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Human Development and Social Policy
The Drawing Down of Ideas: Analyzing How Images of Teachers Become Embedded in Policy - Debbie Kim, Northwestern University; Cynthia E. Coburn, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Human Development and Social Policy
How Central Office–School Relationships Shape School Leaders' Instructional Decision Making: Evidence From a Site-Based Decision-Making System - Lok-Sze Wong, Northwestern University; Ayah Kamel, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Human Development and Social Policy; Cynthia E. Coburn, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Human Development and Social Policy