Author : Brian Fidler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761965275
Written at a very accessible and practical level, this book introduces strategic management and provides self-development activities to help educators develop a strategy within their own organizations.
Author : Isobel Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000260631
This how-to resource provides leaders with a concrete framework for a strategic improvement plan, helping educators link the "principles" to "processes" of planning. Packed with key takeaways and additional resources, this book provides the concrete tools to design a strong strategy for improvement and enables educational leaders to think constructively about why we plan, what an effective strategic plan should contain, and how to create meaningful dialogue to support plan development, implementation, and monitoring for continuous improvement. The Strategy Playbook for Educational Leaders provides superintendents, central office staff, principals, and teacher leaders with the opportunity to reframe the process of their strategic planning and breathe new life into the activity.
Author : Professor Brent Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134658397
The government is now training around 6000 deputy heads per year towards a new qualification: the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH). This book covers the one compulsory module for this qualification which is called Strategic Direction and Development of the School. This book will be essential for all those embarking on the NPQH and those teaching or supervising it.
Author : A. Michael Huberman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1489903909
School improvement, like motherhood, has many advocates. Everyone is for it, without having to campaign actively on its behalf. And just as the 100% of people who have had mothers think they know how mothering could be done better, so the (nearly) 100% of people who have been pupils in schools, or have even taught in or managed them, think they know how schools can be im proved. More precisely, they are sure that schools ought to be improved. The trouble is that they propose a staggering, conflicting range of methods of improving the schools, from ;'back to the woodshed" to teacher merit pay, a stiffer curriculum, a stronger tax base, reorganization, a more humane climate, "teacher-proof" innovations, community involvement-the list is nearly end less. Furthermore, the issues are not merely technical, but normative and po litical. The term improvement is itself problematic. One person's version of improvement is another's version of wastefulness or even of worsening the schools. Furthermore, the versions that win out in any particular school are not Improvement sometimes turns out to be merely a necessarily technically "best. " code word for the directives that administrators have successfully put into place, or for the agreements that teachers have lobbied into being. How much do we really know about school improvement? The available research literature is quite substantial, but not as helpful as it might be.
Author : Terry Quong
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Virtually everyone -- parents, teachers, administrators, school boards, and students -- believes that schools must change for the 21st century. But which changes should occur, and whose values should be reflected? Many change initiatives have foundered on questions like these. Values-Based Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Approach for Schools offers a complete guide to rethinking the purpose of schools, involving every constituency, achieving real consensus, and planning for change that really happens. The tools and techniques in this book work not only in schools, but in any organization that must change, but isn't sure how. Unlike other planning schemes, Values Based Strategic Planning involves everyone in the school, accounts for their fundamental beliefs about education, and is delightfully simple to operate. The entire process can be completed in one day, and the result is a strategic plan that reflects the school's priorities and has the wholehearted commitment of those who must put it into operation. You'll walk step-by-step through the process, start to finish. Learn how to solicit value statements and distill them into school-wide values that can be shared and acted upon; identify critical issues and draft a preliminary mission statement; discover the aspects of a school -- and each individual's role -- that should kept, changed, or innovated; prioritize the results, and build a plan specific enough to succeed. Values Based Strategic Planning has been used in schools and other organizations worldwide, and it works.
Author : Anthony Kim
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1544323204
Actions to increase effectiveness of schools in a rapidly changing world Schools, in order to be nimble and stay relevant and impactful, need to abandon the rigid structures designed for less dynamic times. The NEW School Rules expands cutting-edge organizational design and modern management techniques into an operating system for empowering schools with the same agility and responsiveness so vital in the business world. 6 simple rules create a unified vision of responsiveness among educators Real life case studies illustrate responsive techniques implemented in a variety of educational demographics 15 experiments guide school and district leaders toward increased responsiveness in their faculty and staff
Author : Debra A. Tracy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781483621548
This workbook was written to accompany the book, School Improvement: Revitalize Your School with Strategic Planning. This resource delivers support and guidance as you work your way through the strategic planning process. You will find tools, templates, activities, descriptions, and examples to utilize in your own strategic plan. Strategies are at your disposal to simplify the process. Each step of the planning process is detailed to help you create the best possible plan for your individual school building. Finally, the workbook concludes with a troubleshooting section that supplies remedies for various problems you may encounter when creating, implementing, or monitoring and evaluating your strategic plan.
Author : William J. Cook
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Preedy
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761940586
This book is an essential resource for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational management and leadership development for head teacher induction programs. It is also suitable for use on short courses and for practitioners occupying or aspiring to leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organizations.
Author : Tony Bush
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1473902886
′This is a very good and much needed book. Written by a very experienced researcher and teacher in the education leadership world it brings together a wealth of understanding and insights in the field of leadership and management development in education′ - International Journal of Educational Management ′[T]his book is an excellent survey of practice on a truly international scale which many will find valuable′ - Educational Management Administration and Leadership ′Few people could be better qualified to write about this topic than Tony Bush. The book draws on a wealth of experience and detailed research. Typically, it is extremely well structured, written with great clarity, and combines the highest levels of scholarship with an accessible style that will enable it to appeal to a wide audience. This is a book that many in the field have been waiting for′ - Professor Mark Brundrett, Professor of Educational Research, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool ′This book is far and away the best international comparative study of leadership development for schools. There are countless books highlighting the importance of leadership but none have satisfactorily gone to the heart of the issue, especially for developed and developing countries, and Tony Bush has done it here. It is a sure guide to policymakers, practitioners and researchers who want to make a difference′ - Professor Brian J. Caldwell, Managing Director of Educational Transformations and former Dean of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia Leadership is critical to educational development and specific preparation is vital if leaders are to maximise their effectiveness. In this major new text, Tony Bush draws on his extensive international experience and research to examine the case for leadership development and assess the different modes of preparation used in Europe, including the U.K., North America, Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. He also examines research on how leadership impacts on school and student outcomes and considers future directions for leadership and management development in education. This text is essential reading for students of educational leadership and management as well as for policy-makers, headteachers and principals.
