EDSD 7900 Walden University Issues to Enact Both Educational & Community Change Essay

As you have observed, each member of Mayor Keller’s task force views the need for change from his or her role in the community and specialization perspective. Whether their issues stem from a lack of teaching staff and resources to training for employees, task force members are committed to addressing the learning and development needs of Grand City’s children, students, and citizens. With such myriad needs, how should the mayor’s task force prioritize these issues to enact both educational and community change?

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For this Discussion, you will evaluate programs within your specialization to determine target areas of improvement for educational and social change in Grand City.

To prepare:

• Review all Learning Resources for this module. Think about the meaning of educational change, the impact of data collection on change initiatives, and the impact of positive social and educational change on all individuals in a community.
• Review the Grand City data and media for this module as well as your analysis of the data from the Module 1 Discussion 1. Consider what programs are most critical in supporting Grand City’s children and students, including both those in early childhood programs and K–12 schools. Think about how data supports the need for change initiatives. How might a successful change in those programs impact the community as a whole?
• Hargreaves and Fullan (2013) note the difference between business capital and professional capital. Reflect on the concept of capital, your investment in your own education, and the benefits you anticipate in your career and in the lives of the children you reach.
• Review Walden University’s mission and vision for social change. Imagine you are on the Grand City task force representing your specialization, and consider the areas needing improvement or change. How might you propose the task force address those areas? What impact might such changes have on social change in the Grand City community?

A response that explains:

• At least three target areas that are in need of improvement or change in your specialization
• A rationale for each area supported with specific data from Grand City
• How and why targeting these areas would be most effective in supporting positive change within both your specialization and the Grand City community

For this Discussion, and all scholarly writing in this course and throughout your program, you will be required to use APA style and provide reference citations.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this module’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

REQUIRED READINGS

Fullan, M. (2016). The new meaning of educational change (5th ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

• Chapter 1, “A Brief History of Educational Change” (pp. 3–17)
• Chapter 2, “The Meaning of Educational Change” (pp. 18–38)

Gonzalez-Sancho, C., & Vincent-Lancrin, S. (2016). Transforming education by using a new generation of information systems. Policy Futures in Education, 14(6), 1-18. doi: 10.1177/1478210316649287

Mandinach, E. B., Parton, B., Gummer, E.S., & Anderson, R. (2015). Ethical and appropriate data use requires data literacy. Phi Delta Kappan, 96(5), 25-27. doi: 10.1177/0031721715569465

Hargreaves, A., & Fullan, M. (2013). The power of professional capital. Learning Forward, 34(3), 36–39. Retrieved from http://www.michaelfullan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/JSD-Power-of-Professional-Capital.pdf

Walden University. (2017b). Who we are. Retrieved from https://www.waldenu.edu/about/who-we-are

Review this site for information on Walden University’s mission and vision and its focus on social change.

Walden University (n.d.). APA course paper template (APA 7th ed.). Retrieved February 2, 2016, from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general

REQUIRED MEDIA

Grand City Community

Walden University has created a simulated community known as Grand City. This community is being used in various other courses, as well as this one. The community consists of several locations that will be useful in completing some of the assignments in this course. When you use a resource within the Grand City community in this course, instructions will be provided pertaining to which location and resource you are to view. The community may be viewed at the link provided in the citation.

Go to the Grand City Community and click into City Hall to view the following for this module:

• Laureate Education (Producer). (2017a). Grand City opening task force meeting [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
• Laureate Education (Producer). (2016b). Grand City education and demographic data files [PDF]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

OPTIONAL RESOURCES

Meyer-Looze, C. L. (2015). Creating a cycle of continuous improvement through instructional rounds. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 10(1), 29–45.

Roberts-Holmes, G., & Bradbury, A. (2016). The datafication of early years education and its impact upon pedagogy. Improving Schools, 1–10. doi:10.1177/1365480216651519