Mapping Educational Success : Strategic

This revised edition of Mapping Educational Success has been updated to include the latest insights into planning and delivering successful education. The author suggests that principals and administrators should make a strategic shift to an orientation where results are always the central focus. This would involve new methods of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating in order to achieve predictable educational success.

Foreword

ix

Fenwick W. English

Preface

xiii

About the Author

xix

Strategic Thinking: What and Why

1

(27)

Education: What's Our Role and How Are We Doing?

1

(6)

Changing the Way We View the World: Shifting Paradigms and Mental Gears

7

(2)

Strategic Thinking: Setting Our Direction

9

(3)

Who Is the Primary Client of What Gets Planned and Delivered?

12

(7)

Why Our Educational Problems Persist

19

(4)

Involvement, Commitment, and Sustained Payoffs

23

(5)

Key Terms

26

(1)

Notes

26

(2)

A Framework and Basic Concepts for Strategic Thinking and Planning

28

(19)

The Three Phases of Strategic Thinking and Planning

28

(9)

Mistakes Usually Made by Educators and Their Partners

37

(3)

Implied Criticism When Doing Strategic Thinking and Planning

40

(1)

Educational Results, Efforts, Consequences, and Payoffs

40

(3)

Strategic Planning and Strategic Planning Plus

43

(1)

Partners in Educational Thinking, Planning, and Success

44

(3)

Key Terms

46

(1)

Objectives and Needs Assessment: Basic Building Blocks

47

(25)

We Don't Like Complexity

48

(1)

On Thinking (and Talking) Straight in Education

48

(1)

Preparing Useful Objectives

49

(3)

Preparing Mission Statements and Mission Objectives

52

(1)

Define ``Needs'' as Gaps in Results, Not as Insufficient Levels of Resources or Methods

53

(3)

Applications of Needs Assessment

56

(6)

Needs Assessments Will Find Problems, Identify What Shouldn't Be Changed, and Recognize Opportunities

62

(2)

Objectives, Needs Assessment, and the Seven Basic Questions

64

(3)

Restructuring That Will Really Change the System for the Better

67

(1)

The Basic Steps of Educational System Planning

67

(2)

Strategic Planning: Reviewing the Six Critical Success Factors

69

(3)

Key Terms

69

(2)

Note

71

(1)

Mega-Level Planning: The Larger Community and Society

72

(26)

Scoping

73

(1)

Mega Level Is the Ideal Vision

73

(20)

Planning

93

(2)

Implementation and Evaluation

95

(1)

Relating Several Varieties of Strategic Planning

96

(2)

Macro-Level Planning: The District or School

98

(18)

When the Primary Beneficiary Is the Educational Organization Itself

98

(5)

Scoping

103

(9)

Planning

112

(2)

Implementation and Evaluation

114

(2)

Notes

115

(1)

Micro-Level Planning: People, Programs, Courses

116

(19)

When the Primary Beneficiary Is an Educational Organization's Internal Client

116

(5)

Scoping

121

(9)

Planning

130

(2)

Implementation and Evaluation

132

(3)

Key Term

134

(1)

Note

134

(1)

Completing the Plan and Putting It to Work

135

(16)

Development of the Strategic Action Plan

135

(5)

Completing the Plan

140

(2)

Management, Leadership, and Operations

142

(1)

Shifting Our Thinking, Changing Our Organizational Culture

143

(1)

Total Quality Management (TQM)

144

(4)

Quality Management ``Plus'' (QM+)

148

(3)

Key Terms

149

(1)

Notes

150

(1)

Strategic Thinking in Action

151

(8)

Keep Problems From Arising in the First Place

152

(1)

When Troubles Surface

153

(5)

The Ultimate Education Troubleshooting Tool Kit

158

(1)

A Hypothetical Case: Strategic Thinking in Sleightown School District

159

(17)

The Assignment

160

(1)

Planning to Plan

161

(3)

Selecting the Strategic Framework

164

(1)

Strategic Thinking and Planning Begin

164

(11)

Implementation and Evaluation

175

(1)

Getting the Plan Accepted and Implemented

175

(1)

References and Related Resources

176

(6)

Troubleshooting Guide

182

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Mapping Educational Success : Strategic Thinking and Planning for School Administrators

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