{"id":4648,"date":"2026-02-01T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:52:28","slug":"systems-thinking-for-education-not-a-new-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/?p=4648","title":{"rendered":"Systems Thinking for Education: Not a New Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what you find on the Internet.\u00a0 For instance, I found a great article on systems thinking as it applies to education.\u00a0 As I was reading it, I said to myself, &#8220;Yes!\u00a0 Exactly!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought the article was groundbreaking, since it speaks to the need for systemic change rather than gradual linear change.\u00a0 To top it off, it was published by ASCD, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw the publication date of the article &#8211; 1992!\u00a0 It&#8217;s 32 years old!\u00a0 That&#8217;s a generation and a half (perhaps 2 generations, since generations are defined as a period between 15 and 20 years in length), and we&#8217;re STILL simply talking about it!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read the article, find it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascd.org\/el\/articles\/how-systems-thinking-applies-to-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ascd.org\/el\/articles\/how-systems-thinking-applies-to-education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the article, research by Banathy (1991) speaks to the &#8220;piecemeal, or incremental, approach&#8221; to changes.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edu-cat-ion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.edu-cat-ion.com<\/a> which has a series of articles titled &#8220;Continuous Improvement \u2260 Transformational Innovation&#8221; that&#8217;s attempting to re-emphasize the realization that the problems we experience cannot be solved by the same type of thinking that created them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Michael V. Ziemski, SchoolAdvancement, 2012-2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what you find on the Internet.\u00a0 For instance, I found a great article on systems thinking as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-to-know"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GTK-e1682976309840.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ggCS-1cY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}