SEEDS Gears: Creating an Approach to Support Education and Systemic Change
Gears are a series of policy supplements which focus on creating an approach to support
education and systemic change. The four Gears documents include:
Gears 1: Choosing a Systems Approach (2,297K)
Gears 2: Developing the Systems Model (2,231K)
Gears 3: Undertaking Policy Planning (2,192K)
Gears 4: Implementing Policy Options (2,204K)
These policy supplement are based on the experiences, questions, and recommendations of state and local educators, education policy- and decisionmakers who were advisory members of SEDL's technology and policy networks in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas during the early 1990's. The systems design approach described here is a means of framing their issues, concerns, observations, and recommendations. By putting their collective wisdom into a systems design framework, we have done more than record their work. We have developed an example of a systems-oriented, problem-solving approach. These report give state and local decisionmakers a tool for thinking about complex and interrelated educational and societal concerns. They also demonstrate how other state or local decisionmakers might use such a tool to address complex policy problems.