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Educational Change Process: A Case Study Of A Rural School District's Reading Reform, Barbara M. Havel Bohach
Educational Change Process: A Case Study Of A Rural School District's Reading Reform, Barbara M. Havel Bohach
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Beginning reading instruction is the subject of much debate in educational fields as well as in the political arena. The product of such debates is often a push to reform reading programs and teachers are targeted as the ones to carry out these reforms. If reading educators have been actively involved in a reading change process, what are their concerns about change and the influence of mandated legislation?
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine how teachers and administrators initiated and implemented a balanced reading innovation. It also investigated how the Concerns-Based Adoption Model identified teachers' concerns …