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plovelllent team to include Illore people. The current school improvemsrll rnoacl was
e\lentually developed and was still in use at the time of this sludy. This panicipant concluded
b,, sayillp. "Even though [the previous superintendent] is gone, it's still going on.
rather unique thing that's going on here. Even though we've had a change in a number of
the process is still there and it will continue."
P,-ii?\- Arri~~if!.
Both the seconaary principal and supenntendent/elementay principal gave much of
the district's implementation success to the previous superintendent. He was credited for
ha\.jng joined the district at the start of the process and leadin? the district through the
implementation process. The superintendent viewed the hiring of his predecessor and the
ncn.ly legislsted HF 2232 as having meshed well for the district. He saw the mandates and
the new leadership as dual catalyxtr in piding improvement efforts. He dewribed the
prelvious superintendent as. "vem ~upporti\~e at the time HF 2272 waq happening. He
pro\ idccl thc Jiktrict rcsourccs. A lot of the things I am enjoyins as a superintendent as far as
ha\,iny piccck in placc that nced to be there \vere things that occurred ~vhile he was here."
:I principal alko praiked borh the previous superintendent and the current one as ha\.in~
Icd thc di\tricr thr~i~gli rhe implementation process. Veteran teachers who had made their
h()fllck in the communitv and exhibited o\vnership for school improvements whether mandated
or \I;lncd at thc local level \yere reported as rduable to the new mandate implementation
procc\s.
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In ;~ddition he ~nentioned on-going assistance from the district's AEA pannen. He
;~kfl(~\\lcd~~d tllcir contributions in [he arcas of smnt writing assistance. data inte~~tation.
illld gcncr;~l guid:lncc [hr~ogll m;lny of he issues facing the district. He stfled.
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