Organizational Learning in Action: Becoming an Inviting School

Public schools have met with increasingly unfavorable reactionin recent years, while private schools, magnet schoolsand charter schools seem to be gaining interest and publicsupport. This may be due, in part, to the fact that publicschools seem to lack a welcoming atmosphere. This action researchstudy examined how teachers and an administrator atan elementary school in Texas used organizational learningstrategies to implement the philosophy of invitational educationon their campus in an effort to create a more welcomingclimate