`This book is helpful in providing a survey of where education has reached in strategic planning in theory and practice. Helpfully, case studies are scattered throughout so readers can compare themselves with other schools and pick up "do and don't tips"' - Management in Education `The strategies presented here are quite useful to provide future directions not only to the managers but also to the planners and trainers' - Journal of Education Planning and Administration This book examines the issue of strategic management in schools and colleges. The contributors present an overview of theory in order to enhance management practice in education, and articulate good practice on the basis of evidence in education settings. The ideas presented here are derived from international research and practice, and apply to all phases of education, with the emphasis on using the findings to improve practice in schools and colleges.
Success Strategies for Navigating the Principalship
Written to give an `insiders view' of the many dimensions of the principalship that impact on the lives of principals. The authors offer guidelines, checklists, advice from other principals, considerations and reflections to make any principal's day on the job run more smoothly. The book will help both new and veteran principals along the path to positive, enduring and successful leadership.
`There cannot be another more attractive and refreshingly appealing title of the book that beautifully symbolizes the tremendous power inherent in the collaboration of school, family and child' - Sushila Singhal, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration In this accessible book, the author demonstrates that school improvement must start with a reconsideration of school effects upon the home, and home effects upon the school. The students' school experience must acknowledge the daily influence of the family in the classroom. To ignore this `hidden link' is to remain ignorant about students' lives and motivations, and makes it very difficult for educators to improve schools and schooling. Based on extensive research, Parent, Student and Teacher Collaboration provides invaluable guidance and insight.
A Practical Guide for Today's Teachers and Administrators
Good teachers are a rare and dedicated group, and they need to be nurtured because of their value to society. Too often, educational environments can become incompatible with the goals of education and teachers can be prevented from giving their gifts of learning and compassion by a frightening matrix of competing social and professional agendas. This book identifies the pitfalls that can be predicted and avoided, allowing teachers to fulfil their professional obligations.
Expands the leadership paradigm by examining conceptions of leadership from the `margins', that is by expanding current perspectives on leadership and exploring the impact of culture and community on those who lead. It contains the stories of nine diverse women in positions of school leadership.
Restructuring America's Secondary Schools Through Time Management
Intensive scheduling or block scheduling has become a controversial educational reform initiative in the United States. This book centres on the difficult questions that surface about intensive scheduling and addresses important concerns and common successes. Unlike other books that cover this topic from a theoretical standpoint, the book provides a blueprint from a practitioner's perspective.
In Schools and Societies the author demonstrates that more than any other major institution, schooling and schools are political, and virtually everyone has opinions to voice and interests to promote. Steven Brint musters a wealth of comparative material to show how schooling around the world is shaped by social forces even as it tries to shape the societies of the future.
Exposing common myths and misconceptions about school violence and security threats, this book discusses the changing nature of school security and how to safely take action to deal with it.
This book provides methods that educational leaders can use to develop their personal vision of education, as well as methods for use in developing consensus for shared visions of educational excellence. The book also addresses the conditions of instruction, assessment and support in classrooms and schools that are necessary to implement a vision embracing a particular perpective on education. Specific chapters are devoted to exploring the important roles of educational philosophy and psychology in the development of educational vision.
