Identifying the Components and Indicators of Innovation in the Transition from Successful Schools to Sustainable Schools

sustainable schools are the product of a set of internal and external parameters in schools, and the quality of schools requires collective effort and coordination of all internal parameters of the school system. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to identify the components and indicators of transition from successful schools to sustainable schools and provide a qualitative model.

Delphi method was used in this research. The panel of research experts is a group of 22 experts from the fields of educational management, educational sciences, educational planning, philosophy of education and higher education management, who were selected by the snowball method. First, by using the theoretical foundations, indicators related to sustainable schools were extracted, and in the form of a preliminary questionnaire, it was simultaneously provided to the members of the expert panel for evaluation, and in three rounds of distribution and data collection, data entry and analysis were done. Descriptive statistics technique was used for analysis and W. Kendall's rank test was used to calculate the agreement coefficient of experts.

Rindings: 

132 indicators and 13 components with an acceptable mean and standard deviation were identified for the transition from successful schools to sustainable schools, which according to the results of the DeBilow Kendall test was 0.709 with a significance level of error less than 0.01 and with 99% certainty; it is the consensus of experts.

According to experts, the organization and management component is the most important in a transition model from successful schools to sustainable schools. The characteristics of teachers of sustainable schools and the characteristics of managers are in the next ranks. The components of educational principles and methods, government and governance, educational content, methods of sustainable schools, human relations and participation, characteristics of students of sustainable schools, architecture and building and equipment, culture and society and family respectively in the next degree of importance for the transition of successful schools to Schools are permanent.