Trust and improvement in schools |
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| Authors: | Karen Seashore Louis |
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| Institution: | (1) Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, 330 Wulling Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines how trust affects teachers’ willingness to work with innovations introduced by central office administrators.
Interview and focus group data collected over a three-year period in five schools are used to analyze the centrality of trust
to teachers’ willingness to work with administrators to implement continuous improvement and quality management practices
for their schools and classrooms. A qualitative data analysis software package was used to code interviews and focus groups
for spontaneous comments that addressed trust. Two schools were characterized by high trust, and high willingness to change;
high levels of distrust distinguished three others. This emphasis of the analysis is on the association of spontaneously expressed
sentiments of trust or distrust and the association of those sentiments with willingness to participate in change initiated
from outside the school building. Pre-existing patterns of relational and institutional trust will enhance or limit the ability
of leaders to initiate large-scale change. More needs to be known about how to change coherently distrustful school settings
in order for systemic change to occur.
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| Keywords: | Trust Teachers Administrators Cohesiveness Data based decision making Quality |
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