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

• Autore: Marazza Lawrence L.
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.200973
• Soggetto topico: School management and organization - United States; School improvement programs - United States; Academic achievement - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): BrennanColleen; MillerTracy E.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The 5 essentials of organizational excellence
• ISBN: 1-4833-6277-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797449303321
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