Step-Up-To-Excellence
An Innovative Approach to Managing and Rewarding Performance in School Systems
Published on 14. May 2002
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-8108-4441-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book answers two basic questions for educational practitioners. The first is how educators may re-design an entire school system to perform at the highest optimum levels. The second - and no less important - is what exactly educational administrators may do not only to manage, but also to reward the performance that sustains those very improvements. This book should be of interest to the K-12 administrator, the teacher and school board member, the consultant, professors teaching topical courses, or any layperson interested in the issue of school improvement.
Reviews / Votes
Most superintendents and professors of educational administration will appreciate the author's description of how to move schools from being mechanistic organizations to knowledge-creating places. * School Administrator *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-4441-4 (9780810844414)
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Person
Francis M. Duffy is currently professor of Administration and Supervision at Gallaudet University in the District of Columbia and a consultant specializing in organization improvement. In 1980, he was an honorary faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Content
1 Standards, Assessment, and Accountability 2 Developing and Managing Professional Intellect in School Systems 3 Blueprints, Trestles, and Track 4 Redesign the Entire School System 5 Creating Strategic Alignment 6 Evaluate Whole-System Performance 7 What's This Thing Called Performance Management? 8 Who's That Knocking at the Performance Management Door? 9 Dancing on Ice 10 Courage, Passion, and Vision