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Enhancing School Management Practices for Success

Explore centralization vs decentralization in school administration, effective site-based management, distributed leadership, and school safety. Dive into collaboration, inclusive approaches, educational reforms, gender issues, and valued-end leadership in education.

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Enhancing School Management Practices for Success

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  1. ISSUES IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

  2. Centralization vs. Decentralization • Practicality of site-based management: Let principals manage their schools • Principals’ autonomy (Example: Cluster school implementation) • Power/autonomy and accountability • Site-based management: Rhetoric vs. reality • Site-based management and school achievement? • Distributed leadership in schools

  3. School SafetyAccountability Issue • Emergency management • Risk management • Litigation issues • Sexual harassment of staff and students • School-wide prevention plan • Safe and drug-free and violence-free schools • Schooling crossings and traffic issues • School Climate/culture and productivity

  4. Collaboration and Partnerships • Definition of school partnerships • Understanding of the communities they serve Respond to their needs and interests • School family partnership • Barriers to school family/community/business partnerships • Collaboration with employers

  5. Consumers of Research vs.Researchers • Should teachers and administrators continue to be consumer of research • Benefits of action research • Using research findings to inform professional practices • School leaders to facilitate research among teachers/educators

  6. Inclusive vs. Exclusive Approach • Management of special education – The concept of inclusion • Streaming practices in schools: • Advantages and disadvantages from different perspectives (Lead to self-fulfilling prophecy) • Collaborative leadership structure – participative decision making

  7. Educational Reforms: Mandatory Change vs. Change from Within • Top down change initiatives/programs • Why did most school reforms fail? • Management of school-based change • School policy and change • Benchmarking, standardizing, key performance indicators/index and etc. – Lead to more rigorous academic standards • Guiding reforms through assessment and data analysis • Sustaining change: Factors affecting it!

  8. Gender Issues in Management • Break the glass ceiling: Discrimination • Teachers touching children: Sexual harassment • Boys are doing poorly in schools • Mrs. Brown vs. The lady principal • Feminism in the teaching profession • Leadership among female leaders

  9. Valued-ends Leadership • Principals providing moral leadership • Principals as educators • Principals as community builders – Creating community of learning within schools • The concept of ‘No Child Left Behind NCLB) • Creating school that serve moral purposes • School leaders to educational leaders • Charismatic school leaders • Leading by heart

  10. Principalship • Principal preparation • Professional qualifications for headship • Socialization processes for early headship/induction programs • Middle leadership in schools • Developing school leaders through mentoring

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