The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence; Maximizing Schoolwide Student Achievement and Performance

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ISBN: 9780761939559 | 0761939555
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Copyright: 6/18/2003

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

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

xvii

1. The Missing Essential Connections to Educational Excellence

(18)

Unconnected Systems

(1)

Thinking and Planning Strategically

(3)

Benchmarking for Excellence

(4)

Leading Collaboratively

(2)

Engaging the Public

(1)

Standards-Based Governance and Quality Assurance

(2)

The Integrated Essentials

(1)

The Power of Consensus

(2)

Random Acts of Improvement

(1)

Summary

(3)

2. The Power of Thinking and Planning Strategically

(13)

Commitment by Governance

(1)

Strategic Planning Survey

(1)

Preparing for Strategic Planning

(3)

The Power of Conversation in Public Education

(1)

The Politics of Strategic Planning

(2)

Training the Stakeholders

(2)

The Mission and Building Principals

(1)

Personal Investment in the Plan

(1)

Public Engagement in Communicating the Plan

(1)

Summary

(1)

3. Benchmark for Excellence Using the Sterling System

(12)

Benchmarking, Intelligence, and the Sterling System

(3)

Student-Results Benchmarking

(3)

Benchmark for Organizational Success

(2)

Integrated Management Systems Designed for Student Excellence, Using Benchmarking and Competitive Intelligence to Achieve Excellence

(1)

Benchmarking Survey

(1)

Summary

(2)

4. Lead Collaboratively for Combined Wisdom

(27)

Transforming Leadership

(1)

Transforming the Principalship

(1)

Change Comes From the Edge

(2)

The Role of Personality Preferences in the Restructured Organization

(4)

The Interpersonal Dynamics of Collaboration

(1)

Retro-Programs, Sacred Cows

(2)

Collaborative Organizations

(1)

Organizational Characteristics of a Professional Bureaucracy

(1)

At the Core of Collaborative Success

(1)

Leadership and Followership

(1)

Leadership Needed Today

(1)

Collaborative Leadership Survey

(1)

Principles Governing a Principal's Work

(2)

Legitimate Followership

(2)

Local Leadership Academy

(3)

Environmental Leadership Perception Inventory

(1)

Systems Thinking

(1)

Summary

(2)

5. Engage the Public in a Productive and Proactive Manner

(14)

Nine Factors of Engagement

(1)

Public Involvement

(1)

Building Principals and the Nine Factors

(4)

Deeper Public Involvement

(1)

Public Engagement Survey

(1)

S.W.A.T. Teams: Schools Where Achievement Thrives

(1)

Kitchen Talks

(1)

School Block Talk

(2)

Principal-Led Parental Collaboration

(2)

Summary

(2)

6. Govern by Standards Developed With the Stakeholders

(11)

Building Principals and the Need for Standards of Excellence

(1)

Developing Standards of Excellence Consistent With School Vision

(6)

Govern by Standards 88 The Governance Model

(2)

Standards of Excellence Survey

(1)

Summary

(1)

7. Empower Integrated Management Systems With Five Essential Skills

(22)

The Sterling Criteria for Organizational Performance Excellence

(1)

Principals, Five Essentials, and Sterling

(14)

What Drives Organizations to Sterling Excellence?

111

(1)

Sterling Core Values

112

(4)

Summary

116

(2)

8. Integrate the Five Essentials

118

(12)

Simultaneous Development

118

(3)

The Cycle of Implementation of the Five Essentials

121

(7)

Cost-Benefit Analysis

128

(1)

Administrative Arrangements versus Curricular Concerns

128

(1)

Justify or Eliminate

128

(1)

Summary

129

(1)

9. Chaos, Essentials, and Learning Organizations

130

(12)

Five Essentials and the New Science

130

(1)

Information, Relationships, and Chaos

130

(4)

The Five Essentials and School Culture

134

(4)

The Five Essentials and Learning Organizations

138

(2)

Summary

140

(2)

10. Conclusion

142

(7)

The Leadership Trap

142

(1)

The Discipline of Dialogue

143

(1)

Have You Told Them That?

143

(1)

Changing Times, Changing Challenges

144

(1)

Captain Education

145

(1)

What Now?

146

(1)

Summary

147

(2)

Epilogue

149

(4)

References

153

(2)

Index

155

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