The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence


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"Marazza offers a prescription for how essential skills can empower school organizations that can ultimately lead to higher student achievement and stakeholder satisfaction." John Pieno, Chairman Florida Sterling Council "Marazza′s book displays both practicality and relevancy in school leadership, and examines leadership theories that triangulate his own methods of transforming today′s schools." Frank Rudnesky, Principal Bellhaven Middle School, Linwood, NJ "The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence offers and explains what every administrator should know about collaborative leadership and the benefits for student achievement." Nancy Noeske, President and CEO PROACT Search, Inc. Redefine leadership and engineer improved student achievement! Educational reform. Organizational development. Increased diversity. Accountability. The climate in education today demands an understanding of key concepts. More important, educators beg for answers to important underlying questions. How can we reform education in order to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population? How can we develop an alliance that holds itself accountable to the success and failure of every school, every student? This guide leads you on a path of surprising answers and unorthodox solutions to the problems facing schools today. The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence explores the necessity for building strong relationships among administrators, teachers, parents, and the community by: Planning strategically Benchmarking for excellence Leading collaboratively Engaging the community Governing by standards Leading a school to excellence involves more than just the principal--every member of the community must be involved in order to make a difference in a school′s success.







Excellence Through Equity


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Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive. In these schools, educators understand that equity is not about treating all children the same. They are deeply committed to ensuring that each student receives what he or she individually needs to develop their full potential—and succeed. To help educators with what can at times be a difficult and challenging journey, Blankstein and Noguera frame the book with five guiding principles of Courageous Leadership: - Getting to your core - Making organizational meaning - Ensuring constancy and consistency of purpose - Facing the facts and your fears - Building sustainable relationships They further emphasize that the practices are grounded in three important areas of research that are too often disregarded: (1) child development, (2) neuroscience, and (3) environmental influences on child development and learning. You’ll hear from Carol Corbett Burris, Michael Fullan, Marcus J. Newsome, Paul Reville, Susan Szachowicz, and other bold practitioners and visionary thinkers who share compelling and actionable ideas, strategies, and experiences for closing the achievement gap in your classrooms and school. Ensuring that all students receive an education that cultivates their talents and potential is in all our common interest. As Andy Hargreaves writes in the coda: “The opportunity for all Americans is to articulate and believe in an inspiring vision of educational change that is about what the next genera¬tion of America and Americans should become, not about a target or ranking that the nation should attain.”







The Handbook of Organization Development in Schools and Colleges


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Building on the success of the previous four editions, authors Schmuck, Bell and Bell have written this Fifth Edition to serve the needs of educators everywhere who what to bring about constructive change in their work setting at every level of the educational enterprise from pre-school to graduate school. This outstanding text was designed as a guide for instructional reform and restructuring, site-based management, staff and professional development, strategic planning, team building, and sustained improvement efforts. The authors include new strategies and examples of how schools can use OD skills and concepts to become agile, flexible and adaptable to better meet the needs of students and the demands of our global knowledge economy. The proven content of the text has been re-formatted so exercises, simulations, charts, instruments, surveys, questionnaires, and OD instructional materials are "ready to use" for the educator, OD practitioner or leading administrator. The authors do not view educational organization and academic curriculum as separate spheres: they believe good organization provides the soil from which good teaching can grow. Wide-ranging and informative, the OD Handbook is designed to guide school administrators and teacher leaders who want to build the skills and capacity of their faculties, staff, and students so they are better equipped to creatively and collaboratively solve problems now and in the future. Any educator who seeks to lift morale and raise achievement levels of students through more humane, consistent, and effective management and instruction will find this Fifth Edition of The Handbook of Organization Development for Schools and Colleges: Building Regenerative Capacity an invaluable resource in fulfilling that goal.







Educational Reforms and Students at Risk


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Organizational Development and Leadership


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With this reader you receive an invitation to participate in a travel into actual fields of conceptional development and empirical research in the land of psychological orientated management studies. The authors focus on different perspectives as well as specific theoretical approaches in their common concern to contribute to the understanding and improvement of organizational development: (1) the organizational level including aspects of Marketing strategies, Quality Management and Training, (2) the level of interaction between superiors and subordinates referring to the theory of Transformational Leadership and (3) an individualistic level which emphasizes the employees' personality and values. Organizational change is a challenge for organizations to develop concepts for training, learning processes in the workplace and interaction models between different hierarchical levels. At least, what is the appropriate leadership style in a changing context? Contents: Detlev Liepmann: Quality in Vocational Training: Evaluation and Transfer Dilemmas - Sierk A. Horn: Powerbrands: Resurrecting a Magic Concept - Dirk Hanebuth: Rethinking Kaizen: An empirical approach to the employee perspective - Jorg Felfe/Katja Goihl: Transformational Leadership and Commitment - Matthias Kroeger/Kathrin Tartler: Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire: From the American to the German culture - Wim Nettelnstroth: Personality and Organizational Behavior - Jorg Felfe/Uwe Wolfradt: Values and Job Features as Antecedents for Occupational Stress, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction - Felicia Tancill: Organizational Restructuring and Perceived Job Insecurity.




This We Believe in Action


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NMSA's position paper This We Believe has come to be recognized as the best articulation of the middle school concept, the accepted standard. But inevitably, a position paper speaks in visionary generalizations; to move these ideals into actual practice is a very demanding task, but one that has to be undertaken if needed and fundamental changes are to be made. This resource will help in the process. Altogether This We Believe in Action is a comprehensive resource, the tool we have been waiting for to assist middle level schools in implementing the characteristics of This We Believe. Every middle school should have a copy, not just to be read, but to use in site-based professional development activities. --Publisher description.