Brian R. Beabout
University of New Orleans
26 Papers
162 Citations
Brian R. Beabout is an academic researcher from University of New Orleans. The author has contributed to research in topics: Educational leadership & Instructional design. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of Brian R. Beabout include Pennsylvania State University.
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Papers
Turbulence, perturbance, and educational change
TL;DR: The authors define turbulence as the perception of forces in an organizational environment with the potential to disrupt current modes of operation, distinguished from perturbance which is defined as the social process of actors coming together to adjust organizational practice to fit with the changing environmental context.
The Perceptions of New Orleans Educators on the Process of Rebuilding the New Orleans School System after Katrina
Brian R. Beabout,Alison A. Carr-Chellman,Khaled A. Alkandari,Luis C. Almeida,Husra T. Gursoy,Ziyan Ma,Rucha S. Modak,Ray Pastore +7 more
TL;DR: This article explored the perceptions of New Orleans educators on the process of rebuilding the school system destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005, and found that the presence of both hope and pessimism for positive change indicate a slower, less dramatic change in the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) than some had predicted.
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Urban School Reform and the Strange Attractor of Low-Risk Relationships
TL;DR: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, school leaders in a newly decentralized school system reached out to external organizations for partnerships, a job that had previously resided in the central office as discussed by the authors.
Creating Shared Visions of the Future for K-12 Education: A Systemic Transformation Process for a Learner-Centered Paradigm
Charles M. Reigeluth,Alison A. Carr-Chellman,Brian R. Beabout,William R. Watson +3 more
- 01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The authors compared a number of systemic change approaches to K-12 school innovation, ranging from idealized design to leveraged emergent design, schoolwide to district-wide transformation, and key-leader directed to broad-stakeholder-directed transformation.
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