What Is Systemic Change?
Educators have been addressing change for a long time, and very intensively for the past 15 years. According to Saul Rockman, the problem is that, ” Our reform efforts have dealt with practically every instructional issue one-at-a-time and still we persist in our belief that schools are not performing as well as we would like and are in need of additional reforms. ” Many disgruntled educators have come to call new efforts in this parade of reform programs the “flavor of the month”. Many are reticent to engage in new change initiatives. Systemic change offers an opportunity to enact change while moving beyond thinking about individuals and individual organizations, single problems and single solutions. It entails thinking about systems policy systems, education systems, social service systems, information systems, technology systems. Systemic change is a cyclical process in which the impact of change on all parts of the whole and their relationships to one another are taken into conside
