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Book School Based Management

Download or read book School Based Management written by Susan Albers Mohrman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1994-10-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mohrman and Wohlstetter have written the most important volume on school-based management to date... a significant contribution to the school reform literature." --Joseph Murphy, professor and chair, department of educational leadership, Vanderbilt UniversityThis book examines the school-based management strategies that hold the most promise for increasing organizational effectiveness.

Book Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement

Download or read book Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement written by Herbert J. Walberg and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Published in cooperation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement) As suggested by the title, the purpose of this Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement is to provide principles for restructuring and substantially improving schools. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII) engaged leading experts on restructuring and school improvement to prepare modules for this handbook to assist states, districts, and schools in establishing policies, procedures, and support to successfully restructure schools. The Handbook is organized into three sections. The topic of the Handbook’s modules – restructuring with a focus on the district as the impetus for dramatic improvement – is relatively new in the nation’s education history. For this reason, the module authors were selected because they are highly experienced experts in their fields and can be counted on to judiciously weigh the less than definitive evidence and to state useful guiding principles.

Book Restructuring and Quality  Issues for Tomorrow s Schools

Download or read book Restructuring and Quality Issues for Tomorrow s Schools written by Tony Townsend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.

Book Improving America s Schools

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1996-11-15
  • ISBN : 0309054362
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Improving America s Schools written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American's standard of living. Yet, few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate economic principles or research findings. Improving America's Schools explores how education and economic research can help produce, in the words of Harvard's Dale W. Jorgenson, "a unified framework for future education reform." This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the Clinton Administration's reform program; and Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, on the education of the disadvantaged. This volume explores these areas: The importance of schooling to labor market success. The prospects for combining school-based management with teacher incentives to gain the best of both approaches. The potential of recent innovations in student achievement testing, including new "value-added" indicators. The economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers. The volume also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement. Improving America's Schools informs the current debate over school reform with a fresh perspective, examples, and data. This readable volume will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, and education administrators as well as economists and employersâ€"it is also readily accessible to concerned parents and the larger community.

Book Restructuring Leadership for School Improvement and Reform

Download or read book Restructuring Leadership for School Improvement and Reform written by Abdallah, Asma Khaleel and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of school leadership has a big impact on improvement and inspection outcomes. Good school leaders ensure that their teachers have the resources they need to be successful. They also create a positive culture where teachers feel supported and appreciated. This leads to better morale and higher retention rates. Additionally, good school leaders can effectively communicate the school's vision to all stakeholders. This ensures that everyone is on the same page and working towards the same goals. Restructuring Leadership for School Improvement and Reform investigates cooperation, staff development, resource supply, vision transparency, workplace stress management, and professional development for school leaders as methods for creating a healthy school culture. This premier reference source is ideal for administrators, instructional designers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Book Restructuring Schools

Download or read book Restructuring Schools written by David T. Conley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After describing the economic, social, and technological forces that aggravate the discrepancy between the emerging social structure of society and the organization of schools and necessitate educational restructuring, this document discusses renewal, reform, and restructuring as three levels of efforts toward change in schools. Brief representative definitions of restructuring are offered, and a continuum of support for fundamental change in education is examined, with educational reformers being the most supportive and parents showing the least support. Following several categorization schemes for restructuring efforts, restructuring activities are grouped into three broad categories and explored as follows: (1) the three Central Variables, which focus directly on student learning--curriculum, instruction, and assessment; (2) the four Enabling Variables--time, technology, learning environment, and school community relations; and (3) the four Supporting Variables--governance, working relationships, personnel, and teacher leadership. Last, descriptions are given for three possible scenarios for the future of public education: continued mediocrity; incremental change and improvement; or restructuring. Sources of further information are appended. (128 references) (CLA)

Book School Based Management and School Effectiveness

Download or read book School Based Management and School Effectiveness written by Clive Dimmock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connections between school-based management, school effectiveness and school improvement, bringing together studies completed in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA. It describes and analyses how effective principals and teachers perceive and undertake educational change and school-based management; how a sense of values, vision and school culture can improve leadership; ways in whcih delegating financial management to schools may lead to improved teaching and learning; and the contribution made by school development planning through reviews and evaluation to school improvement. Finally, it suggests future directions for study and research in school effectiveness, school improvement and school-based management.

Book Overcoming Barriers to Educational Restructuring

Download or read book Overcoming Barriers to Educational Restructuring written by Grady McGonagill and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This titles examines schools as a system and addresses how they can be changed.

Book Jsl Vol 12 N4

    Book Details:
  • Author : JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
  • Publisher : R&L Education
  • Release : 2002-07-19
  • ISBN : 1475811365
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Jsl Vol 12 N4 written by JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2002-07-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of School Leadership is broadening the conversation about schools and leadership and is currently accepting manuscripts. We welcome manuscripts based on cutting-edge research from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations. The editorial team is particularly interested in working with international authors, authors from traditionally marginalized populations, and in work that is relevant to practitioners around the world. Growing numbers of educators and professors look to the six bimonthly issues to: deal with problems directly related to contemporary school leadership practice teach courses on school leadership and policy use as a quality reference in writing articles about school leadership and improvement.

Book School based Management

Download or read book School based Management written by Lori Jo Oswald and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Restructuring

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cyril Poster
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-10-05
  • ISBN : 113463353X
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Restructuring written by Cyril Poster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to and analysis of the concept of the restructuring of schools. It includes detailed case-study material, which analyses the theory, considers the real people involved, and offers practical solutions to the problems of understanding and managing restructuring. Cyril Poster retired from teaching to become deputy director of the National Development Centre for School and Management Training at Bristol University, and then a freelance trainer and consultant. He was the previous series editor of the Routledge Educational Management series. Sonia Blandford is a member of the Oxford Centre for Education Management and Services, Oxford Brookes University. She is a consultant, author and lecturer. John Welton is currently Professor of Education, Oxford Brookes University. As a consultant, researcher and author he has worked extensively in Britain and overseas.

Book Restructuring Schools

Download or read book Restructuring Schools written by Mike M. Milstein and published by Corwin. This book was released on 1993-05-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools are being increasingly encouraged to "restructure" to improve education in schools. However, restructuring has many different meanings for different people. This book addresses the origins, purposes, and methods of restructuring schools and clarifies the definition of restructuring. It also advocates comprehensive change in thinking about education. Activities that promote restructuring are outlined, and information is presented on the means of developing structures and roles to accomplish restructuring. Also, the great difficulties of restructuring are explored as well as the means of assessing the effectiveness of restructuring efforts. Chapter topics include defining restructuring, clarifying purposes, developing structures and roles to serve purposes, promoting supportive beliefs and behaviors, providing resources, changing schools' issues and strategies; assessing restructuring efforts, and initiating activities to promote restructuring. A list of suggested readings and resources is included. (Contains 39 references.) (JPT)

Book Restructuring for Student Learning

Download or read book Restructuring for Student Learning written by Bruce G. Barnett and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only true measure of a successfully restructured learning environment lies in how student learning has been affected, not simply whether teachers relate well to one another, community involvement has increased, or districts have implemented site-based management. Provides an in-depth review, analysis and re-evaluation of school restructuring. Included are an examination of restructuring and student learning outcomes, theoretical approaches to restructuring, school and community environmental factors that influence restructuring, and components of a platform for successful restructuring.

Book School Restructuring

Download or read book School Restructuring written by Douglas E. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oversight Hearing on the Office of Educational Research and Improvement  OERI

Download or read book Oversight Hearing on the Office of Educational Research and Improvement OERI written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Improving Schools from the Bottom Up

Download or read book Improving Schools from the Bottom Up written by Patrick M. Shields and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents findings of a national study of effective schools programs and other school-based reforms conducted during school year 1991-92. The reforms were broadly defined to encompass school-site improvement efforts designed to develop schoolwide capacity for problem solving, to improve teaching, and to increase student learning. Data were obtained from a survey of a nationally representative sample of local school districts (n=1,555), surveys of administrators in all state education agencies, and intensive case studies of 5 states, 16 districts, and 32 schools. Data from the district survey show that school-based reform was relatively widespread, occurring at all school levels. The case-study data suggest that change efforts varied widely across districts and schools. The study examined the degree to which the reform effort involved meaningful collaboration among school staff, staff ownership of the change process, a focus on teaching and curriculum, building professional capacity among staff, and a focus on student outcomes and equity. The case-study data suggest that the more promising examples of school-based reform often shared a set of characteristics--a clear focus on creating more challenging learning experiences for all students, a school culture in which teachers worked collaboratively and had a voice in decision making, and opportunities for faculty development. The following recommendations are made for supporting promising reform efforts: (1) find a balance between top-down and bottom-up structures; (2) adapt leadership and vision at every level of the system; (3) build local capacity-building systems; (4) devolve some authority to school staff; and (5) clearly tie government mandates and requirements to learning goals. A total of 32 tables and 1 figure are included. Appendices contain notes on methodology and copies of the survey instruments. (LMI)