Governance and Systems Level Change in Catholic Schools
Governance and Systems Level Change in Catholic Schools
Project Summary
Catholic schools in the U.S. are going through a period of crisis and transformation. Many people are reconsidering the ways that Catholic elementary schools are organized or governed. There have been serious questions raised in the field about the effectiveness of the parish-based model that has traditionally been employed to govern local Catholic elementary schools. This study is designed to investigate how systems level educational change works within the Catholic sector, using governance as a primary lens for our organizational analyses.
Approach
This project brings in organizational, educational policy, and educational change lenses to questions that to this point have only been looked at through a financial effectiveness lens. Rather than merely consider what governance models are most efficient and effective to be employed, we identify Catholic school governance as one major piece of the complex systems level puzzle in Catholic school organizational change.
Principal Investigators
Melodie Wyttenbach, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Roche Center for Catholic Education
John Reyes, Ed.D.
Director of Research, Program Evaluation, and Innovation, Roche Center for Catholic Education
Research Assistant:
Fr. Gilbert Ezeugwu
Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction