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A DISTRICT THAT KNOWS HOW TO SPREAD SUCCESS
By Ruby Midkiff and Amy Clark, January 2004
One of the most popular sessions at the 2003 National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Annual Conference featured a group of people that specialize in spotting “deviants.” They can survey a classroom, school, or an entire district and find the teacher or principal who, working under the same difficult conditions as her peers, gets results her peers do not currently match. The success strategies used by the deviant are then made accessible to everyone in the larger organizational setting, thus seeking to improve conditions for all. This method of finding solutions to complex organizational problems is known as the “Positive Deviance Approach” and was developed by Jerry Sternin and his wife Monique while conducting relief work in Vietnam.
Earlier this year, NSDC chose six schools and districts from across the country to participate in a study of how best teaching practices are identified and disseminated widely across schools. The study, “Amplifying Positive Deviance,” forms the basis of the soon-to-be-published book From the Inside Out: Learning from the Positive Deviance in Your Organization. One of the districts to be profiled in the book is the Starkville (Mississippi) School District where AIM at Middle-Grades Results has been working for nearly four years.
AIM began its partnership with the district in 2000, when the faculty at Armstrong Middle School made a commitment to engage in a rigorous process of school improvement that would be guided by AIM’s principles and facilitated by an AIM site developer. A second school, Henderson Intermediate, began using the AIM model during the 2002-2003 school year. As a result of their work with AIM, the two schools have adopted a number of practices and processes designed to improve student and school performance.
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The positive-deviance approach involves focusing on the school's needs and then ... themselves, the positive deviant, and the teaching staff, school ...
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In every high school there are students that are practicing behaviors that are keeping them in school.
In every high school there are teachers, administrators, and parents practicing behaviors that are keeping students in school.
The Positive Deviance Approach is a quick, low cost method to identify behaviors and practices that keep students in school and encourages the rest of student community to adopt them
The Positive Deviance Approach has been used successfully in a variety of different venues and conditions.
The potential for the Positive Deviance Approach to reduce high school dropouts is vast and largely untapped
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Do you practice Positive Deviance in you school community? Throughout our school communities, there are positive deviants or as Kevin Buck refers to them as Positive Innovators -- individuals whose uncommon behaviors enable them to find better practices to pervasive problems, while sharing the same resource base as other stakeholders within their respective community. The Positive Deviance Approach allows us to recognize and acknowledge what's working in our school communities by publicizing behavioral strategies that lead to success. By focusing on what works, we can begin to close the achievement gap and increase student retention. One example of the Positive Deviance Approach in schools is in Brazosport, Texas, a district which basically eliminated the achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic groups by tapping the talents of successful teachers and amplifying their strategies around the district. [For a detailed description of Brazosport's methods, see The Results Fieldbook by Mike Schmoker (ASCD, 2001) ] We need to know the Positive Deviance behaviors and practices that you and your colleagues believe lead to successful school change. Email the IFT about your PD behaviors. How are you using strength-based thinking in the teaching and learning process? What great things are taking place between teachers and parents that are helping students? Email us at
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