Living Up To Your School Mission Statement

"The practical book answers all these questions before leading you step-by-step through the process of writing your own mission statement and then living up to it"--Back cover.

Drawing on successful practice, and relating such practice to theoretical insights, this comprehensive treatment of the challenge of educating children spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally offers enlightenment for individual teachers' classroom practice as well as for whole-school approaches.

Are you a parent or guardian looking for a top-notch 21st-century private school in Zambia, one that will meet your family needs and expectations? This profound question is at the core of this first-ever book on private school education in Zambia. Choosing a Good Private School for your Child: The Ultimate Guide for Parents and Guardians in Zambia emerged from Monde Nyambe’s vast experience working as an educator and school leader in private international school settings. The book provides insights into pertinent factors that assist parents as they make important decisions about private school choices for their children. Through research and experience, the author draws on the views of key stakeholders to create a decision-making tool on choosing a good private school, ideal not only for parents but also for teachers, school leaders and private school proprietors. Make no mistake, this is a must-read for parents intending to give their children a solid head start by ensuring that they secure a good private school amidst the ever-rising number of private schools in Zambia.

Whether they’re the result of a mandate from on high, a crisis that needs addressing, or simply a desire for improvement, change initiatives are a constant in most every school. In this book, veteran teacher, administrator, and consultant Jeffrey Benson provides educators with a proven, practical, and broadly applicable system for implementing new practices methodically and effectively. Topics include * Identifying and communicating a clear and understandable vision of change; * Ensuring that all voices in the school are heard and respected during the change process; * Thoroughly and thoughtfully collecting, classifying, and analyzing data related to the change initiative; and * Delegating responsibilities among staff and stakeholders. Replete with checklists, surveys, and worksheets, 10 Steps to Managing Change in Schools is a practical guide for educators determined to seamlessly weave new practices or procedures into the fabric of the school.

All school districts have written statements of the educational values and goals that members of the school community believe are important and worth pursuing. They display these on the front page of all school district public relations packets and on the walls of school and district offices. While all segments of the school community enthusiastically embrace the values and goals stated in the documents, rarely, if ever, do they practice these goals and values in classrooms or administrative offices. The gap between the educational ideals spoken from auditorium stages and the instructional regimes students experience in classrooms is the result of schools designed to achieve institutional goals—accountability, standardization, and efficiency—rather than educational goals—thoughtfulness, deep knowledge, and critically-informed citizens. This book is aimed at school administrators whose goal is restoring the why of schooling to the organizational structures and instructional routines that currently govern public schooling in this nation.

With business schools becoming increasingly market-driven, questionable trends have emerged, such as the conflation of academic and corporate management, and the notion that academics and students are market players, who respond rationally to market signals. Using individual studies from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines and countries, this book identifies the global pressures behind these trends. It focuses on the debates surrounded the commercialization of business schools, and the rise of different methods of measuring their success. In their unique approach, the authors and editors discuss the impact of the confrontation between the timeless values embodied by Minerva, the Roman goddess of Wisdom, and the hard realities of competition and corporatization in modern society. This book will be compelling reading for students and academics in critical management studies, organizational studies, public management and higher education, as well as for stakeholders in academia and educational policy.

A positive atmosphere permeates everything that happens in a school. In Winning the H Factor Alistair Smith and his co-authors show how happiness itself leads to successful outcomes, rather than simply being a result of them. This practical guide is packed with strategies for coping with the pressures of everyday life in schools. An original evaluation model lets you quickly assess levels of happiness at the individual, classroom and whole school level, before giving simple tips to help you to reflect on your own attitudes and how you can influence the well-being of others. The book includes: What the research tells us about happiness; How to change expectations; Advice on building better relationships; How to create a positive learning environment, and; The benefits of a happy school. Through an impressive combination of theory, practical guidance and case studies, this important and exciting book will enable you to create a lasting culture of happiness in your school.

The primary focus of the book is to emphasize the major changes in the leadership responsibilities of the school principal and to underscore the necessity for them to gain new knowledge and skills in order to direct their leadership toward meeting the new changes in school-community goals and objectives. M. Scott Norton emphasizes the fact that contemporary issues and problems must be viewed as symptoms of change. The symptoms represent administrative tasks that must be attacked by implementing the primary reason that the school principal is hired, that of leading on-going change.