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- I 3 Much of the trial and error process required while business experimented with new technologies is now a thing of the past and schools could rapidly close the gap with office • automation and instructional products that have been tested and improved in recent years. The Triangle J planners envision a model school based on principles of participatory management, a school in which all employees are involved and engaged in a joint enterprise aimed at giving all students an equal opportunity to succeed in school and to succeed as adults. Implicit in that vision is a school that differentiates between the roles of staff, that establishes long-range, student-oriented goals and strategies for learning, that rewards and promotes excellence. In the area of creative management and organizational models, as in the area of cutting- edge technology, the Triangle area can tap into nearby resources and draw from innovative business and educational models. Firms such as IBM, Northern Telecom, Glaxo,'and many others located within Triangle J are recognized leaders in the area of personnel and organizational development; in the educational arena, some of the nation's most innovative educational school restructuring projects are being piloted within the state's boundaries. The intent of the model school is to bring these two strands, technology and innovative organizational techniques, together within the walls of one school to create a demonstration site that could expose teams of educators and policy makers to a vision of what education could be, and should be, in tomorrow's schools. More importantly, Triangle J must be on the leading edge of creating schools of success for its children. The following proposal outlines a model school concept and recommendations on making that concept a reality in the Triangle J region. PURPOSE A World-Class Education System must include a setting (school or collection of schools) where new strategies, approaches, and advanced thinking can be tested, and where appropriate,perfected for more general application. The World-Class Region's general committee intends that a model school be set up in the Region for the purpose of providing this setting and demonstrating the school's achievements and fmdings to regional,state and national educators,and elected officials. L School Specific Factors ❑ Geographic Location-The location of the school should be influenced by the following: - An accepting board of education and superintendent willing to share responsibility in key areas and to support a true exploration of current thinking and major research findings in public school education. - Reasonable relationship and access to all parts of the region so as to foster ownership on the part of all counties and LEAs within Region J. - Local school leadership and a faculty capable of enthusiastic support of the model school concept.