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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"sustainable change"”.
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'Fresh start': a model for success and sustainable change?
… Start can act as a catalytic agent of positive change to performance, school cultures and the school community. The literature review examines school improvement in schools with challenging circumstances (where many Fresh Start schools are based) and includes the theoretical framework …
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Inclusive co-teaching in the secondary schools: a study in sustainable change
… purpose of this action research project was to change the current implementation of inclusion and co-teaching in the secondary grades at one school in southern New Jersey. Through professional development, establishing core communication strategies, and the development of a common lesson plan …
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Staff responses to implementing environmentally sustainable change at federal fish hatcheries in BC
Anecdotal information indicates a resistance to change from federal fish hatchery staff regarding environmentally sustainable infrastructure renewal and hatchery operations. Qualitative research was conducted to investigate this phenomenon, using face-to-face interviews with nine hatchery staff …
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Using Professional Learning Communities to Build Teacher Leadership Capacity: Creating Sustainable Change in Education
<p>During the course of this study, I examine the effective uses of professional learning communities in relation to building leadership capacity among teachers. The literature reviewed illustrates and addresses the need for teachers to see themselves, not only as professionals, but as leaders. …
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Transformative lines: a mapping approach to explore urban imaginaries and opportunities for socially sustainable change in Beirut, Lebanon
… and urban imaginaries can inform more socially sustainable urban development strategies. The research adopts a qualitative case study approach focused on two neighbourhoods in Beirut: Sabra and Karantina. Fieldwork was conducted in 2023, and comprised architectural surveys and participatory …
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Possibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White Institution
… power, and offer possibilities for making sustainable change. This dissertation is an institutional critique (Porter et al. 2000) that includes Black women's experiences in diversity leadership roles at Virginia Tech, an analysis of the institution's bureaucratic structure, an analysis of …
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Pairing mega events and hydrological systems for urban sustainability : strategy framework for Delhi beyond the Commonwealth Games 2010
… learns to seize opportunities through benign and sustainable change. Furthermore, this thesis intends to inform decision makers with a checklist of crucial tradeoffs, risks and benefits involved in incorporating water systems as a strategy framework. Eventually, the thesis argues that CWG 2010 …
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The capacity of industrial topographies for civic culture: a case study and reinterpretation of the urban order in Shipai, Dongguan, Guangdong, China
… of an industrial civic order to accommodate sustainable change and transformation of a territory for different participants? The dissertation compares the most current incarnation of industrial city in China with historical precedents such as Detroit, Silicon Valley and Third Italy that …
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Lessons for Change Management and Software Implementation: An Ethnographic Study of Australian Small Business
… the multifaceted experiences of organisational change and technological adaptation. Key insights reveal that even in established organisations, continuous negotiations and shifts occur as individuals adapt, resist, and refine work practices, particularly during periods of technological …
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Systems analysis of crime in Trinidad and Tobago, focusing on the cocaine trade
… planning strategies that can bring about sustainable change in T&T.
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Implementing for Success and Sustainability
… to implementing evidenced-based practice changes effectively and efficiently. Nurse bedside performance can drift away from evidence-based practice (EBP) and revert to methods previously taught when the strategy, planning and implementation lacks resources to support sustainable change. …
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Instructional Coaching: An Essential Element for Building and Maintaining Instructional Capacity
… the principal, in leading instructional change and supporting teachers throughout the change process. Building instructional capacity across a school building is an essential role for a school leader, but also requires ownership and agency on the part of teachers to be active partners in …
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Systems to Transform Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: An Ecological Systems Analysis of STEM Graduate Students' Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Identity-Based Motivation
… or competencies. The findings help explain why sustainable change in interdisciplinary graduate education remains challenging: stable patterns within academic microsystems operate to sustain underlying core functions that actively resist isolated modifications and privilege disciplinary over …
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"to move forward, we had to change": a case study of organizational change sustainability in higher education
… explores the impact of organizational change on communities within an organization and the long-term sustainability of the effects of change. Four overarching research goals guide the research: To gain knowledge in how policy implementation drives organizational change; to better …
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Examining a Community Action Planning Process to Mobilize a Coalition to Prevent Youth Violence: A Case Study of the ThrYve Initiative
… action, they can initiate meaningful and sustainable change in their community. An empirical case study was conducted to examine the contributions of community action planning facilitated by a coalition on the implementation of community change (i.e., changes in program, practice, policy). …
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Fostering Collaboration Between local HEIs and Global Professional Engineering Organization
… organizational improvement plan (OIP) proposes a change process to foster collaboration between a not-for-profit engineering organization and higher education institutions (HEIs) situated in the Central Ontario Region. This OIP will help students create successful conditions to transition from …
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An Exploration of the Terms Educational System Leader and Educational System Leadership
… reform. In the context of significant policy change and curriculum transformation, the study investigates how leadership that transcends individual schools can contribute to system-wide improvement. It specifically examines the terms educational system leader and educational system leadership, …
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The strategic facilitation of change across UK public services: a critical reflection
… in creating the conditions for systemic change. • The importance of the relationship between small-scale actions and large-scale frameworks for change, and how this dynamic enhances our ability to lead change in complex systems. • Why people, seeking to create the conditions in which …
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Implementation of Sustainable Construction Practices: A Socio-Psychological Micro-Level Analysis in an Emerging Economy
The implementation of sustainable practices in the construction sector of emerging economies is a critical yet underexplored challenge. In light of the behavioural management literature, researchers and policymakers have collaborated to bridge the implementation gap through organisational drivers …
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