Full Description
`Lawrence L Marazza offers a prescription for how essential skills can empower school organizations that can ultimately lead to higher student achievement and stakeholder satisfaction' - John Pieno, Chairman, Florida Sterling Council`Lawrence L Marazza's book displays both practicality and relevancy in school leadership, and examines leadership theories that triangulate his own methods of transforming today's schools' - Frank Rudnesky, Principal, Bellhaven Middle School, Linwood, New Jersey"The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence offers and explains what every administrator should know about collaborative leadership and the benefits for student achievement' - Nancy Noeske, President and CEO, PROACT Search, Inc.The Five Essentials presents the systems and the skills that are required to maximize student achievement within a learning organization context. Built upon a strong philosophical base of stakeholder collaboration in public schools, the book describe the connection between school organizational development and student achievement. The Five Essentials presents the case for connected systems; governing by standards, benchmarking for excellence, leading collaboratively, engaging the public, and planning strategically.
Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Missing Essential Connections to Educational ExcellenceUnconnected SystemsThinking and Planning StrategicallyBenchmarking for ExcellenceLeading CollaborativelyEngaging the PublicStandards-Based Governance and Quality AssuranceThe Integrated EssentialsThe Power of ConsensusRandom Acts of ImprovementSummary2. The Power of Thinking and Planning StrategicallyCommitment by GovernancePreparing for Strategic PlanningThe Power of Conversation in Public EducationThe Politics of Strategic PlanningTraining the StakeholdersThe Mission and Building PrincipalsPersonal Investment in the PlanPublic Engagement in Communicating the PlanSummary3. Benchmarking for Excellence Using the Sterling System Benchmarking, Intelligence, and the Sterling SystemStudent-Results BenchmarkingBenchmark for Organizational SuccessIntegrated Management Systems Designed for Student Excellence, Using Benchmarking and Competitive Intellgience To Achieve ExcellenceSummary4. Leading Collaboratively for Combined Wisdom Transforming LeadershipTransformationg the PrincipalshipChange Comes From the EdgeThe Role of Personality Preferences in the Restructured OrganizationThe Interpersonal Dynamics of CollaborationRetro-Programs, Sacred CowsCollaborative OrganizationsOrganizational Characteristics of a Personal BureaucracyAt the Core of Collaborative SuccessLeadership and FollowershipLeadership Needed TodayPrinciples Governing a Principal's WorkLegitimate FollowershipLocal Leadership AcademySystems ThinkingSummary5. Engage the Public in a Productive and Proactive MannerNine Factors of EngagementPublic InvolvementBuilding Principals and the Nine FactorsDeeper Public InvolvementS.W.A.T. Teams: Schools Where Achievement ThrivesKitchen TalksSchool Block TalkPrincipal-Led Parental CollaborationSummary6. Govern by Standards Developed With the Stakeholders Building Principals and the Need for Standards of ExcellenceDeveloping Standards of Excellence Consistent With School VisionGovern by StandardsThe Governance ModelSummary7. Empower Integrated Management Systems With Five Essential SkillsThe Sterling Criteria for Organizaitonal Performance ExcellencePrincipals, Five Essentials, and SterlingWhat Drives Organizations to Sterling Excellence?Sterling Core ValuesSummary8. Integrate the Five EssentialsSimultaneous DevelopmentThe Cycle of Implementation of the Five EssentialsCost-Benefit AnalysisAdministrative Arrangements versus Curricular ConcernsJustify or EliminateSummary9. Chaos, Essentials, and Learning OrganizationsFive Essentials and the New ScienceInformation, Relationships, and ChaosThe Five Essentials and School CultureThe Five Essentials and Learning OrganizationsSummary10. ConlusionThe Leadership TrapThe Discipline of DialogueHave You Told Them That?Changing Times, Changing ChallengesCaptain EducationWhat Now?SummaryEpilogueReferencesIndex
