The title "Let's Fly a Kite"symbolizes a joint endeaver undertaken by school people and facilitator to diagnose the current state of a school using a developmental model shaped like a kite.

The kite results from sustained research programs linked to application and field development in the Netherlands for almost twenty years (Ca Ma Pe - An Organizational and Educational Systems Approach to Secondary School Developement; Petri, Burkhardt, 1992). The focus of the developmental model represented by the kite is the interconnectedness of educational and organizational characteristics of a secondary school. Five models, each representing the educational and organizational structures of a school are positioned in an area defined by two continuums: 1) differentiation and integration; and, 2) mechanistic and organic coordination. The five models represent prototypical situations. In reality, schools may differ from the prototypical models in many resepcts and many schools' actual descriptions may lie between two or more models or scattered across the kite. A diagnostic tool has been developed to determine the particular position of a school. The application and improvement of this instrument is the subject of this study.

The summary of this book is attached as pdf
Let's Fly a Kite .

A German adaption with the title Schulentwicklung; Modelle, Diagnose, Beratung will be released in the spring of 2007 by Schneider Verlag (www.paedagogik.de)