Publications

Academic Case Managers: Evaluating a Middle School Intervention for Children At-Risk( - 140KB)
The Making of Sophomores: Student, Parent and Teacher Reactions in the Context of Systemic Urban High School Reform
How Theories of systemic change relate to evaluation and the role of evaluator's in systemic reform
Improving the Education of Students Placed at Risk though School-University Partnerships( - 3.39MB)
It Ain't Brain Surgery: Restructuring Schools to Improve the Education of Children Placed at Risk ( - 313KB)
Motivational Theory and The Middle School ( -176KB)
The Unlikely Faces of Professional Development in Urban Schools: Preparing At-Risk Students and Colleges for One Another ( - 3.11MB)
Working with Curriculum Standards to Build a Community of Readers in a Culture of Non-Readers ( - 3.73MB)
Van Kannel-Ray, N. and Newlin-Haus, E. (in press). Teaching thinking: Using media as subject matter. Middle School Journal
Van Kannel-Ray, N., Zeller, P., & Lacefield, W. (in press). Academic case management: Promising interventions for closing achievement gaps in multicultural urban settings. ERS Spectrum.

How Theories of systemic change relate to evaluation and the role of evaluator's in systemic reform

The theories of systemic change views the world as a universe comprising of a hierarchy of systems that are systemically interlinked and well-structured via sub-systems. That systemic change occurs in the universe when

People as agents of the systems change, become systems thinkers and adopt a systemic point of view
People shift their thinking, life styles and organizational behaviors to invest in systemic principles and values. Systemic change theorists argue that systemic change can be measured and evaluated in terms of the shifts in peoples' values, assumptions, awareness and behavior change patterns.
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