Download or read book Culture Eats School Improvement for Breakfast written by Jon Morris and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" this famous quote has become iconic for expressing the power of culture. Coined by management consultant Peter Drucker in 2006, while this expression may be an oversimplification of Drucker's work, there can be little doubt that culture is crucial in helping schools succeed. While culture has gained a lot of traction in educational literature, many merely discuss its importance, rather than the steps on how to assess, or create it. Worse, many seem confused on what culture is in relation to schools and can often use the term haphazardly. This book therefore offers a practical guide, which demystifies school culture, with accessible references to academic research. It also offers illustrative examples from the domains of business, education, and history. Finally, it provides a practical and workable model, which can be employed by school leaders to check and change the culture of their school.
Download or read book Culture Eats School Improvement for Breakfast written by Jon Morris and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: this famous quote has become iconic for expressing the power of culture. Coined by management consultant Peter Drucker in 2006, while this expression may be an oversimplification of Drucker’s work, there can be little doubt that culture is crucial in helping schools succeed. While culture has gained a lot of traction in educational literature, many merely discuss its importance, rather than the steps on how to assess, or create it. Worse, many seem confused on what culture is in relation to schools and can often use the term haphazardly. This book therefore offers a practical guide, which demystifies school culture, with accessible references to academic research. It also offers illustrative examples from the domains of business, education, and history. Finally, it provides a practical and workable model, which can be employed by school leaders to check and change the culture of their school.
Download or read book Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch written by Curt W. Coffman and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a high performance culture
Download or read book Gods Of Management written by Charles Handy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;It Was Always A Myth That There Is One Best Way To Manage, But It Has Been A Pervasive Myth And A Damaging One, To Both Individuals And Organizations. The Greeks At Least Recognized A Variety Of Gods, Even If Each Had His Or Her Favourite. We Need A Law Of Requisite Variety In Management As Well As A Theory Of Cultural Propriety.&Rsquo; The Four Gods Of The Title Symbolize The Very Different Styles Of Management And Culture To Be Found In Today&Rsquo;S Organizations. Zeus Is The Dynamic Entrepreneur Who Rules Over Companies Of The Club Cluture, Characterized By Speed Of Decision And Rapid, Intuitive Communication. Apollo, God Of Order And Bureaucracy, Is The Patron Of The Role Culture, Based Not On Personalities But On Definition Of The Jobs To Be Done. Athena, Goddess Of Craftsmen, Recognized Only Expertise As The Basis Of Power And Influence: Hers Is The Task Culture. Dionysus Is The God Preferred By Artists And Professionals Within The Existential Culture, People Who Owe Little Or No Allegiance To A Boss. Under This Witty And Sparkling Allegory, Charles Handy, Britain&Rsquo;S Foremost Business Guru, Makes A Serious Analysis Of The Changing Patterns Of Work And Business. Gods Of Management Is A World Bestseller Which Is Required Reading For Managers, Business Students And Everyone Who Wants To Be A Survivor On A World Of Constantly Changing Organizational Culture.
Download or read book Shaping the Digital Enterprise written by Gerhard Oswald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on cross-industry and industry-specific trends in today’s digital economy. Prepared by a group of international researchers, experts and practitioners under the auspices of SAP’s Digital Thought Leadership & Enablement team within SAP’s Business Transformation Services (BTS) unit, the book furthermore presents relevant use cases in digital transformation and innovation. The book argues that breakthrough technologies have matured and hit scale together, enabling five defining trends: hyper-connectivity, supercomputing, cloud computing, a smarter world, and cyber security. It presents in detail how companies are now reimagining their products and services, business models and processes, showcasing how every business today is a digital business. Digitalization, defined as the process of moving to a digital business, is no longer a choice but an imperative for all businesses across all industries and regions. Taking a step toward becoming a digital enterprise is demanding and challenging. The dimensions of customer centricity, leadership and strategy, business models, including offerings (products and services), processes, structure and governance, people and skills, culture, and technology foundation can serve as orientation for digitalization. The articles in this book touch on all dimensions of this digital innovation and transformation framework and offer possible answers to some of the pressing questions that arise when practitioners seek to digitalize their business.
Download or read book Win from Within written by James Heskett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations’ cultures. They are discouraged by misguided beliefs that an executive’s tenure and an organization’s attention span are too short for meaningful transformation. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. He demonstrates that an effective culture supplies the trust that makes managing change of all kinds easier. It provides a foundation on which changes in strategy can be based, and it’s a competitive edge that can’t easily be hacked or copied. Examining leading companies around the world, Heskett details how organizational culture makes employees more loyal, more productive, and more creative. He discusses how to quantify its effects in order to sell the notion of culture change to the organization and considers how to preserve an organization’s culture in the face of the trend toward remote work hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Showing how leadership can bring about significant changes in a surprisingly short time span, Win from Within offers a playbook for developing and deploying culture that enables outsized results. It is a groundbreaking demonstration of organizational culture’s role as a foundation for strategic success—and its measurable impact on the bottom line.
Download or read book Committing to the Culture written by Steve Gruenert and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their follow-up to School Culture Recharged and the best-selling School Culture Rewired, Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker go deep into the roots of culture change and explore how school leaders can positively shift their cultures in a sustainable way. Drawing from the authors' extensive experience and research, Committing to the Culture - Unpacks questions around the nature of culture, including the importance of vision and climate and how the tension between the past and the future can keep a culture stagnant. - Explains how toxic cultures come about, why they can be so resistant to lasting change, and how not to change those cultures. - Describes how to build a positive culture based on trust, collaboration, and commitment rather than fear, competition, and compliance. - Offers advice to help leaders ensure that positive change endures, withstanding fads, toxic mindsets, and other threats. The authors provide real-world scenarios to illustrate how their ideas and approaches work in practice. Leaders will gain profound insight into how to create meaningful change, with the goal not just to "transform" their school but also to get all members of the school community to commit to culture change—and make sure that change sticks.
Download or read book Free for All written by Janet Poppendieck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.
Download or read book Sustainable School Improvement written by Patricia Wright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the current culture of constant change while providing a framework, the tools and the right conversations to support educators and school leaders in improving student outcomes.
Download or read book Design Mom written by Gabrielle Stanley Blair and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.
Download or read book Improving Schools from Within written by Roland S. Barth and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A humane blueprint for school reform that--instead of startingwith a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them'inservice' workshops ad infinitum--would build on the educationalstaff's existing strengths." --The New York Times BookReview Barth hows how communication, collegiality, and risk-takingamong adults can create an atmosphere of learning and leadershipfor all.
Download or read book The Future of School Breakfast written by Katie Mosehauer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School breakfast is associated with a host of positive outcomes, such as improved health and attendance, reduced behavioral problems, and increased academic achievement. Unfortunately, a majority of Washington students who qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts do not currently receive one at school, with many students eating no breakfast at all. This report assesses how the current operation of the school breakfast program is serving Washington students, how innovative school and district policies are making a difference for students in Washington and across the country, and how new policies at the state and federal level can change the course of low breakfast participation trends and maximize the benefits of school breakfast for students and their families. Research found that "Breakfast After the Bell," meaning any food service model that provides students the opportunity to eat breakfast after the first bell of the instructional day, has been effective in transforming school breakfast programs, and mandating breakfast programs was significantly more effective in increasing school breakfast participation and reducing the risk of hunger. A list of key terms is included. The following are appended: (1) Health Impacts of Breakfast; (2) The Cognitive Impacts of Breakfast; (3) Nuts and Bolts of Breakfast Service Models; (4) History of Policy and State Investment in the School Breakfast Program in Washington State; (5) OSPI Estimates on Washington School Districts Qualifying for Community Eligibility; (6) Estimates on Individual Schools Qualifying for Community Eligibility; (7) Alternatives to the Use of Free and Reduced-Price Eligibility on the Allocation of State and Federal Funds; and (8) Technical Notes on Appleseed's Economic Model for School Meal Funding.
Download or read book Renegade Leadership written by Brad R. Gustafson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide. We’re all looking for the next best tech tool, but why don’t we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may be the answer we need. Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership is student-centered, intertwining equity, culture, and technology. Using research, vignettes, and renegade profiles, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age by: Applying transformational tenets of connected pedagogy Increasing your leadership in curriculum, cultural proficiency, and school improvement Leading staff meetings, planning professional development, and improving student learning Don’t miss the free podcasts, flipped book study, and more on the Renegade Leadership website.
Download or read book Leveraging the Impact of Culture and Climate written by Steve Gruenert and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, culture and climate can make or break your school improvement efforts. Authors Todd Whitaker and Steve Gruenert help educators understand how to leverage culture and climate to drive deep and lasting change. Learn how to assess current culture, address climate issues, combat challenges, and work toward a collaborative school community dedicated to achieving high levels of learning for all. Rely on this book's effective school improvement strategies for creating a collaborative culture in schools: Understand the commonalities and differences between school climate and school culture. Identify the characteristics of specific types of classroom cultures for self-assessment and improvement in creating a positive classroom climate. Learn how to assess the values and beliefs of educators at the classroom and school levels. Discover your school's capacity for culture change using a step-by-step process. Consider how the elements of climate and culture influence school effectiveness and school improvement efforts. Contents: Introduction: How Culture and Climate Can Improve Schools Chapter 1: How to Define School Culture Chapter 2: Differences Between Culture and Climate Chapter 3: Elements of Climate Chapter 4: Classroom Cultures Chapter 5: The Culture Scorecard Chapter 6: The Capacity to Change Chapter 7: School Culture Assessment Chapter 8: The Necessity of Culture Change Chapter 9: A Closer Look at Values Chapter 10: Not the Perfect Culture, the Right Culture Epilogue References and Resources Index
Download or read book Examining Innovative Practices to Improve Child Nutrition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running the Room The Teacher s Guide to Behaviour written by Tom Bennett and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates whether or not they will succeed or struggle in school. Every child comes to the classroom with different skills, habits, values and expectations of what to do. There’s no point just telling a child to behave; behaviour must be taught. Behaviour is a curriculum. This simple truth is the beginning of creating a classroom culture where everyone flourishes, pupils and staff. Running the Room is the teacher’s guide to behaviour. Practical, evidence informed, and based on the expertise of great teachers from around the world, it addresses the things teachers really need to know to build the classrooms children need. Bursting with strategies, tips and solid advice, it brings together the best of what we know and saves teachers, new or old, from reinventing the wheels of the classroom. It’s the book teachers have been waiting for.
Download or read book Eating to Learn Learning to Eat written by Andrew R. Ruis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry. Through careful studies of several key contexts and detailed analysis of the policies and politics that governed the creation of school meal programs, Ruis demonstrates how the early history of school meal program development helps us understand contemporary debates over changes to school lunch policies.
