Scaling Up School Based Development
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The document discusses two strategies for scaling up school-based developments: dissemination and systemic scaling up. The dissemination strategy focuses on spreading know-how between networked schools and has a more direct but limited impact. The systemic scaling up strategy modifies schools' environments more flexibly to infiltrate innovations, involving more schools but with less intensive impact. It also has relatively lower development costs but a greater burden on state budgets. Successful scaling up requires considering factors like decentralization and support mechanisms, as well as connecting top-down and bottom-up approaches through school absorption capacities and environmental enrichment.
Scaling Up School Based Development
- 1. Scaling-up School Based Developments in Education Conditions and Strategies Péter Radó Educational policy analyst, Hungary
- 2. Scaling-up School Based Developments The scaling-up problem Origins of the problem (USA in the 70’ and 80’s) Top-down and bottom-up policy implementation patterns The „transition” context
- 3. Scaling-up School Based Developments General Tools Generating market for working ideas and innovations Making additional resources available Creating a free market for thoughts Investing into support mechanisms Building coalitions
- 4. Scaling-up School Based Developments T wo strategies The policy of dissemination Question: what are they doing and how? Objective: the dissemination of the know-how The most important tool is creating a network of co-operating schools The policy of systemic scaling-up Question: what are the conditions that allow them to do it? Objective: ensuring the applicability of the know-how The most important tool is modifying the systemic environment of schools
- 5. Scaling-up School Based Developments Comaprison of the two strategies 1. The policy of dissemination Adjustment to local context: inflexible Impact on schools: direct, immediate and intensive Number of schools involved: limited Innovation often remains isolated within the school The policy of systemic scaling-up Adjustment to local context: flexible Impact on schools: less intensive, indirect, delayed Number of schools involved: not limited Innovation easily infiltrates the school
- 6. Scaling-up School Based Developments Comaprison of the two strategies 2. The policy of dissemination The specific costs of development are relatively high Getting external funds is easier, burden on state budget is lower Ensuring cost-efficiency is easier The policy of systemic scaling-up The specific costs of development are lower Getting external funds is harder, burden on state budget is bigger Ensuring cost-efficiency is harder
- 7. Scaling-up School Based Developments Aspects to be considered The scope of the problem The level of decentraization The maturity of support mechanisms The source of available resources Level of political and governement commitment The level of finacial accountability
- 8. Scaling-up School Based Developments Connecting bottom-up and top-down 1. The absorption capacity of the schools The capacity of the staff to change The willingness of the staff to change The quality of the institutional functioning of the schools Accountability
- 9. Scaling-up School Based Developments Connecting bottom-up and top-down 2. Enrichment of the systemic environment of schools Curriculum writing versus curriculum development The INSET system Development of teaching materials Quality assurance within the chain of services