Download or read book Optimal School Governance written by Stephen Codrington and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Optimal School Governance' is a comprehensive handbook for school trustees who care about serving their boards as effectively as possible. The book covers such important areas as:* What is a school board?* Board effectiveness - Governance and Management* Dysfunctional boards* Healthy boards - the 4-D model of optimal governance* Ethos - mission, strategic vision, school policies, sustainability* The Board-Head relationship* Oversight of the school - engagement, program oversight, school demographics* Board meetings and dynamics* Board composition and succession* Other board processes - board policies, change leadership and innovation* Fiduciary duties - legal compliance, finances and resources, risk management, reputation* Evaluating the board

Download or read book Challenging the One Best System written by Katrina E. Bulkley and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Challenging the One Best System, a team of leading education scholars offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban education governance reforms collectively known as the “portfolio management model.” They investigate the degree to which this model—a system of schools operating under different types of governance and with different degrees of autonomy—challenges the standard structure of district governance famously characterized by David Tyack as “the one best system.” The authors examine the design and enactment of the portfolio management model in three major cities: New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Denver. They identify the five interlocking mechanisms at the core of the model—planning and oversight, choice, autonomy, human capital, and school supports—and show how these are implemented differently in each city. Using rich qualitative data from extensive interviews, the authors trace the internal tensions and tradeoffs that characterize these systems and highlight the influence of historical and contextual factors as well. Most importantly, they question whether the portfolio management model represents a fundamental restructuring of education governance or more incremental change, and whether it points in the direction of meaningful improvement in school practices. Drawing on a rigorous, multimethod study, Challenging the One Best System represents a significant contribution to our understanding of system-level change in education.

Download or read book The Essential School Board Book written by Nancy Walser and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential School Board Book highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the country--boards that are working successfully with their superintendents and communities to improve teaching and learning.

Download or read book Governance in International Schools written by Adele Hodgson and published by John Catt Educational Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School governance is a complex and sometimes emotional topic. This book helps schools and their boards towards best practice. It provides a useful guide for board members, administrators and faculty.

Download or read book Insights Into School Leadership and Board Governance written by Stephen Codrington and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few vocations are more important than shaping our future through the education of young people. And yet school leadership and board governance are among the most challenging and least supported roles within many schools. For several years, Stephen Codrington has periodically published free articles on school leadership and governance to support school leaders in their important work. At the request of many subscribers, this book brings together an edited selection of 72 of these articles to make them available to an even wider audience of educators in an easily accessible format.

Download or read book Better Boards Better Schools The ISM Guide for Private School Trusteeship and Strategic Governance written by Weldon Burge and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a member of the Board of Trustees for a private school is certainly an honor. You are asked to take into your care a school--to ensure that each student's education fulfills the school's mission, and that all students are nurtured and developed to their benefit. You must carry out that care by providing support-resources-to the School Head. Your relationship to the school-as with all Trustees--determines whether your school will be successful in the long term.Being a Board member is also somewhat puzzling. If you're like many Trustees, you're not sure how it happened. Maybe you were approached at a social event. Maybe another Board member had talked to you a while ago about it on the phone; you may even have forgotten the conversation. Maybe you were serving on a committee and this seemed the next logical step. You've become a private school Trustee.Now what?This book is based on more than four decades of working with the Boards of hundreds of private schools. Independent School Management (ISM) has honed its research and recommendations over those years to provide the best possible service to our schools. We hope you'll find the following theory and advice valuable as you better prepare your Board to plan for your school's future. Chapters include: * The Role of the Trustee* The Board's Foundation and Strategic Structures* Understanding Private School Finances* Strategic Planning and Strategic Financial Planning* The ISM Stability Markers* Purpose and Outcome Statements* ISM Success Predictors* Recruiting and Orienting Board Members* The Board Committees* Board Meetings and Other Functions* Board-School Head Relationships* The Board's Role in Fundraising* Strategic Board Assessment* A Sample Board Commitment and Trustee HandbookIndependent School Management (ISM) is a family owned company dedicated to the advancement of private school management. ISM reaches over 7,000 private-independent schools, and serves over 200,000 students annually with advice, assistance, and creative solutions. Administrators in private schools of all types and sizes turn to ISM for advice and assistance on an array of management challenges, including student recruitment and retention, fundraising, strategic and long-range planning, Board-Head relations, personnel, plant expansion, mergers, leadership training, and creative insurance solutions.This book is based on more than four decades of working with the Boards of hundreds of private schools. We've honed our research and recommendations over those years to provide the best possible service to our schools. We hope you'll find the following theory and advice valuable as you better prepare your Board to plan for your school's future

Download or read book The Governance Core written by Davis Campbell and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead into the future effectively with the Governance Core approach! Designed to guide educational leadership past difficult and formidable challenges, the governance system outlined in this book will lead to school districts and schools operating at the highest levels of effectiveness. Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan call for school boards, superintendents and school leaders to work cohesively with the same mindset to raise clarity, status, and efficacy. Practical and authentic, the Governance Core is based upon: A governance mindset A shared moral imperative A unified, cohesive governance system A commitment to system-wide coherence A focus on continuous improvement in the district

Download or read book School Governance in Global Contexts written by Nicholas Sun Keung PANG and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited volume provides multiple lens to view school governance practices, exploring its modernization, ethical review, future trend, as well as the reciprocal influence of educational policy. Drawing on a wide-spread experience in the field of education governance from leading scholars, emerging scholars, doctoral research students and school principals, this book includes insights from 11 countries and economies across four continents: Asia, Europe, North America and Oceanic. Most of them are high achievers in the OECD’s PISA 2018 worldwide ranking in mathematics, science and reading. The book not only lifts to the forefront school governance educational thinking, but also acknowledges their complex evolution, especially under the current impact of COVID-19 Pandemic. This book will be of interest to academics, professionals and policymakers in education and school governance, and any scholars who engage in historical studies of education and debates about educational governance.

Download or read book Designing Professional Development School Governance Structures written by Lee Teitel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet outlines key principles that ideally characterize partnership governance structures and processes in professional development school (PDS) settings, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the various decision making structures and processes currently employed by PDS partnerships. The booklet provides a self-assessment tool for evaluating individual partnerships and illustrates how some existing partnerships have crafted formal arrangements. Chapter 1, "Governance Challenges Facing Professional Development Schools," discusses critical tasks of governance and examines process challenges. Chapter 2, "Models of PDS Governance," explains the three basic linkages in PDS partnership structures: liaisons, school or site steering committees, and multisite coordinating councils. They are not mutually exclusive, and some partnerships have all three. Chapter 3,"What Governance Works Best?" explains there is no one structure that is recommended as the optimal governance model. Chapter 4, "Tool Kit for Analyzing Governance Needs," looks at critical tasks (building bridges, supporting mutual renewal, managing day-to-day tasks, and assessing and planning for the long term) and process challenges (working with and transforming existing governance, balancing spontaneity with structure, promoting parity and equity, and connecting people and institutions). Chapter 5, "Sample Agreements," provides samples from the website of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Chapter 6 contains 2 references and a 10-item bibliography and resources list. (SM)

Download or read book Governance Handbook for Friends Schools written by Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Friends Council on Education's Governance Handbook for Friends Schools bridges the gap between Friends school and independent school perspectives, offering guidance and direction for governance of values-based institutions. The second edition contains new and expanded material on effective board process, advancement, Quaker-based decision-making processes, and building an optimal culture for school leadership and governance. Designed to be actively explored by governing boards, the text is framed in open-ended queries to inspire application. Sample tools and forms are ready for use. This handbook is a useful guide for boards, trustees and heads of Friends schools, as well as the wider world of independent schools.

Download or read book Who s in Charge Here written by Noel Epstein and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Americans are aware that their nation long ago created a separate government for education, supposedly to shield it from political interference. Some experts believe that at the heart of todays school debates is a push to put the larger government-- presidents, governors, mayors-- in the drivers seat, or even to dump democratic school governance entirely. The results are mixed. One clear result, however, is a vexing tangle of authority and accountability. "Whos in Charge Here?" untangles it all.

Download or read book Bringing Out the Best in Teachers written by Joseph Blase and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What strategies do great principals use to influence teachers, students, and classroom instruction? This best-selling book by Joseph Blase and Peggy C. Kirby, now in its third edition, provides the answers from the teachers themselves. New material in this revised edition compares the authors' original research findings with recent literature on transformational leadership, school productivity, and adult learning, as well as the ISLLC and ELCC standards. Such comparisons underscore the continued timeliness and timelessness of this teacher's-eye view of effective school leadership. The book offers strategies and related practices that allow leaders to use the power of praise, influence others by using expectations and involvement, encourage professional autonomy lead by standing behind, suggest rather than direct, use formal authority positively, ideal for experienced or aspiring school principals, this enlightening and compact resource provides invaluable perspectives on how to motivate and inspire classroom teachers."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.

Download or read book School Governance written by Richard C. Hunter and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education of America′s school children always has been and always will be a hot-button issue. From what should be taught to how to pay for education to how to keep kids safe in schools, impassioned debates emerge and mushroom, both within the scholarly community and among the general public. This volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of school governance. Fifteen to twenty chapters explore such varied issues as decentralization, federal roles in standards and assessment, parent involvement, top-down vs. bottom-up decision making, and more. Each chapter opens with an introductory essay by the volume editor, followed by point/counterpoint articles written and signed by invited experts, and concludes with Further Readings and Resources, thus providing readers with views on multiple sides of governance issues and pointing them toward more in-depth resources for further exploration.

Download or read book Student Voice and School Governance written by Marc Brasof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood. Students are rarely invited to lead school reform efforts, and when they are, their voice is silenced by the structural arrangements and socio-cultural conditions found in schools. This volume investigates problems with the neoliberal school reform movement, and how youth-adult partnerships have resulted in more effective reforms within schools and community organizations nationally and internationally. Stemming from an eight-year ethnographic study at a civic-themed public high school, the volume highlights the process of creating a school governance structure which produces active and informed citizens. Made up of executive, legislative and judicial branches, the program gives students the power to make, implement and review school policies and practices—a model that has found to effectively distribute leadership and trigger organizational learning, and is thus at the forefront of civic education.

Download or read book Improving School Governance written by Nigel Gann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the first edition: "School governors will find this a sound and practical guide to the nature of their responsibilities and the process of managing their workload. It is well researched, based on vast experience, illustrated from the best practice, free from jargon – and always interesting." Joan Sallis. Described by the National Association of Governors and Managers as "definitely a ‘must’ for your bookshelf"; reviewed in the Times Educational Supplement as an "essential guide to help governors". This book is about governing schools – about how a governing board made up largely of ‘ordinary’ people with no professional educational experience, working in partnership with professional leaders, can help to make schools better. It is intended for governors in schools in England and Wales, in other parts of the world where lay people engage in school leadership, and for people who work with governors. Improving School Governance examines: How school governors got to be where they are today How governing boards do their jobs How individual governors can best contribute to their schools Governors’ accountability The nature of governors’ meetings The rights that governors have The relationships between governors and the headteacher The role of governing boards in school inspection Governors’ relationships with parents and the wider community How to evaluate the performance and impact of governing boards What the future might hold for state-funded schools and their governance What national strategic issues will need to be addressed by governing boards in the next five to ten years

Download or read book The Taking Action Guide for the Governance Core written by Davis Campbell and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical resources for building cohesive governance teams As a supplement to the best-selling The Governance Core, this practical guide will help trustees and superintendents adopt a governance mindset and partnership that creates coherence throughout the district. With a systems thinking approach, the authors provide readers with the strategies and tools needed to build cohesive teams and engage in deeper learning and decision making. The Taking Action Guide for the Governance Core offers readers: • a deeper understanding of core governance and how to build it • a planning guide to help new trustees get started • protocols and sample agendas for focusing on strategy and systems during open board meetings Educational leaders will find this guide offers them a foundation for building strong, flourishing school districts that are equipped to adapt to and meet the daunting challenges of our time.

Download or read book Facing the Challenge written by Jacqueline Danzberger and published by Century Foundation Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining school governance in the US, this book debates the role of politics in school boards, the board-superintendent relationship, the desirability of providing board members with on-the-job training, and possibilities for eliminating school boards in favour of new forms of governance.