FROM / Traditional

Through / Transitional

TO / Transformational

Mission,Vision, Educational Agenda

Focus on Schooling

Focus on Education

Focus on Lifelong Love of Learning

Teaching students

Learning for ALL students & staff

Curriculum

Minimum Standards

Broad Curricular Goals for knowledge, skills, and Character

Exceed International Performances, Basics of the Future

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge, Skills & Character

Lower Levels of Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Application Level of Cognitive Taxonomy

All Levels of Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy, especially Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Create, and, Affective and Psychomotor Taxonomies

Assessment

State, National, Assessment

Performance Assessments

Exhibitions, Demonstrations, Self-Assessment

Instruction

Best Instructional Practices

& Official Learning Theory

Best of the best practices, Arts-based instructional strategies, character development, and use of the professional learning community to improve instruction  

Discovery and Self-Development, Arts Integration & Classical Learning Theory

Leadership

Transactional Leadership based on positional authority….Command / Control / Compliance

Collaborative Leadership, with Teacher Leaders…..

Transformational Leadership, Teacher Leadership, based on Shared Moral Authority

Community

Community Involvement

Professional Learning Community, inclusion of stakeholder voices, including student, parent, staff, wider community.

Community-Building, Professional (Ethical) Learning Community

Culture

Safe & Orderly Climate, change from outside-in….

Culture of Continuous Improvement & Learning, inclusion of stakeholder voices, including student, parent, staff, wider community.  

Culture of Character, high quality relationships, and modeling of good character - permeating the classrooms, school, and community & continuous improvement from inside-out