The Transformation of Education by Design: A Leadership Guide for Educational Decision Makers

This guide is the second of three documents that make up a Professional Development Package for Educational Systems Design. The intended audience for this guide is a leadership group empowered to provide leadership, policy direction, and support for a design effort. This group may consist of the educational leadership in a community in cooperation with the school board and other key community leaders. Organized around key concepts and requirements that leadership must address to initiate and sustain an effective design inquiry process, the guide is to be used in a 3-day workshop for a leadership group. The listed purposes of the workshop are as follows: (1) to develop further knowledge about the process and requirements for educational design; (2) to develop awareness and appreciation of the roles and organizational capabilities and capacities necessary for a design process; and (3) to assist the leadership to explore the various dimensions and options for shaping a design inquiry process and for establishing general parameters for the designers. (MLF)