Creating a School Merger Proposal

Introduction, Goals, and Objectives: Assuming the role as superintendent address the school district: Provide an analysis of goals and objectives of the proposal, including an explanation of leadership roles (including your own) in addressing the challenges of the merger, the collaborators, considerations for respecting the diversity of all students, and how your professional dispositions will aid you in carrying out the merger.

Content: Provide an explanation for how two school cultures might be combined while maintaining a positive learning experience taking into consideration the similarities and differences between the two schools.

4. Content: Apply theory or research to support a communication style regarding diversity to foster inquiry, collaboration, and interaction in learning within the context of the merger.

5. Content: Explain how to create a positive learning environment for diverse school populations that encourages social interaction, active learning, and intrinsic motivation when two schools merge.

6. Content: Explain and provide a rationale for the strategies that would be implemented to help effectively merge the faculty, community, and students into one school.

“7. Content: Describe challenges that might arise and ways to collaborate to address the challenges.
Explain how you might adapt your leadership style to accommodate the variety of diverse stakeholders in the merging of these two schools”

8. Content: Explains how cultural competence, collaboration, use of resources, and communication (including professional dispositions, diversity proficiencies, and technology proficiencies) will contribute to the success of the proposal.

9. Content: Explain the moral and ethical behavior displayed and how it enhances effective collaboration

10. Content: Provide an explanation of how Fullan’s model of educational change will be integrated in the proposal and use evidence of best practices supported by current research to support the use of Fullan’s model.

11. Content: Explain the importance of leadership in the area of technology, keeping in mind the continuous evolution of knowledge and the tools used to learn and how that might impact the merger.

12. Content: Explain the challenges, including specific examples, that may be encountered related to technology and how the diverse technology needs of students, teachers, families, and other stakeholders would be supported.

13. Reflective summary: Explain the most important knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed in professional practice as a leader in education.

Include a focus on the collaborative facilitation skills, professional dispositions, diversity proficiencies, and technology proficiencies needed to assume the role of the superintendent of Grand City School District in the School Merger Proposal.

Explain professional areas for improvement related to the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to successfully achieve the mergaqwer of these two schools.