1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480353903321

Autore

Marazza Lawrence L.

Titolo

The 5 essentials of organizational excellence : maximizing schoolwide student achievement and performance / / Lawrence L. Marazza ; proofreader, Colleen Brennan ; cover designer, Tracy E. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-4833-6277-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

371.200973

Soggetti

School management and organization - United States

School improvement programs - United States

Academic achievement - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 -  The Missing Essential Connections to Educational Excellence""; ""Unconnected Systems""; ""Thinking and Planning Strategically""; ""Benchmarking for Excellence""; ""Leading Collaboratively""; ""Engaging the Public""; ""Standards-Based Governance and Quality Assurance""; ""The Integrated Essentials""; ""The Power of Consensus""; ""Random Acts of Improvement""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter  2 -  The Power of Thinking and Planning Strategically""; ""Commitment by Governance""; ""Strategic Planning Survey""

""Preparing for Strategic Planning""""The Power of Conversation in Public Education""; ""The Politics of Strategic Planning""; ""Training the Stakeholders""; ""The Mission and Building Principals""; ""Personal Investment in the Plan""; ""Public Engagement in Communicating the Plan""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 -  Benchmark for Excellence Using the Sterling System""; ""Benchmarking, Intelligence, and the Sterling System""; ""Student-Results Benchmarking""; ""Benchmark for Organizational Success""



""Integrated Management Systems Designed for Student Excellence, Using Benchmarking and Competitive Intelligence to Achieve Excellence""""Benchmarking Survey""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4 -  Lead Collaboratively for Combined Wisdom""; ""Transforming Leadership""; ""Transforming the Principalship""; ""Change Comes from  the Edge""; ""The Role of Personality Preferences in the Restructured Organization""; ""The Interpersonal Dynamics of Collaboration""; ""Retro-Programs, Sacred Cows""; ""Collaborative Organizations""; ""Organizational Characteristics of a Professional Bureaucracy""

""At the Core of Collaborative Success""""Leadership and Followership""; ""Leadership Needed Today""; ""Collaborative Leadership Survey""; ""Principles Governing a Principalâ€?s Work""; ""Legitimate Followership""; ""Local Leadership Academy""; ""Environmental Leadership Perception Inventory""; ""Systems Thinking""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5 -  Engage the Public in a Productive and Proactive Manner""; ""Nine Factors of Engagement""; ""Public Involvement""; ""Building Principals and the Nine Factors""; ""Deeper Public Involvement""; ""Public Engagement Survey""

""S.W.A.T. Teams: Schools Where Achievement Thrives""""Kitchen Talks""; ""School Block Talk""; ""Principal-Led Parental Collaboration""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6 -  Govern by Standards Developed with  the Stakeholders""; ""Building Principals and the Need for Standards of Excellence""; ""Developing Standards of Excellence Consistent with School Vision""; ""Govern by Standards""; ""The Governance Model""; ""Standards of Excellence Survey""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7 -  Empower Integrated Management Systems with Five Essential Skills""

""The Sterling Criteria for Organizational Performance Excellence""

Sommario/riassunto

The essential strategies presented in this resource explore the necessity for building strong relationships among and between administrators, teachers, parents, and the community.



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Record Nr.

UNISA990000514770203316

Autore

CONTINI, Gianfranco <1912-1990>

Titolo

Letteratura italiana dalle origini / Gianfranco Contini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Sansoni, 1991

ISBN

88-383-1337-7

Edizione

[7. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

IX, 1043 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Biblioteca universale Sansoni ; 30

Disciplina

850.8001

Soggetti

Letteratura italiana - Origini - Antologie

Collocazione

VI.3.C. 49(VARIE COLL. 857/30)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia