ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines comprehensive second-level bureaucratic systems of the McCallister Model that are employed to implement a school-level infrastructure that builds teacher and leadership capacity, ensures skilled instruction, quality systems of assessment, coherent curricula, adequate professional development support, and a culture of professionalism and trust. The McCallister School is designed to be an ecosystem as opposed to a factory. The Ecosystem is enacted through a Yearlong Implementation Plan. The school leader assumes responsibility to execute second-level changes implemented through a system of distributed leadership. Assessment plays an essential role in the educational infrastructure. A centralized assessment system provides continuous streams of competence feedback to learners and staff. The Civil Rights Program provides means to monitor the extent to which the school is upholding its obligation to all learners’ right to an education on equal terms. Observations are anchored to the Learning Cultures Rubrics. The Rubrics have a norming property, to create a new reality by describing it.
