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Modern School Business Administration: A Planning Approach (Peabody College Education Leadership Series)
James W. Guthrie, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University
Christina Hart
Walter G. Hack, Ohio State University
I. Carl Candoli, University of Texas

ISBN-10: 0205572146
ISBN-13: 9780205572144

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 480 pp
Published: 10/10/2007

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This text in ABL’s new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College covers historical and current trends in leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination.

 

The text was developed by a leading scholar in educational leadership as part of a series from one of the leading schools of education in the world. It has a strong basis in current research, and easy-to-use, intuitive features. It strikes an effective balance between the informational and the pedagogical. It covers trends (both historical and current) in educational leadership. The “Modern” approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary American school leaders. The case studies and interactive pedagogy make this a very practical text.

 

Features:

  • Authored by expert scholars as part of a cohesive series developed at one of the leading schools of education in the world. This series will provide readers with a succinct and practical analysis of current educational leadership topics.
  • Case study approach - Each section of the text opens with case studies, each demonstrating real issues faced by educational administrators today. The authors refer back to these case studies throughout the section.
  • ELCC standards integration - Standards are highlighted in each section and chapter to demonstrate how tightly the content is correlated to the standards.
  • MyLabSchool integration - Each chapter ends with a MyLabSchool activity related to chapter material using video of real classrooms, online research tools such as Research Navigator or the New York Times Education News Feed, simulations, case studies, and others.
  • Practical end-of-chapter material - Chapters close with several pages of practical material including class activities, discussion questions, and case studies revisited.
  • An instructor’s manual with resources and test items is available online to adopters by contacting your local representative.
  • A companion web site offers sample data for chapter ending questions, and URLs for further research and interest.

New to this Edition:

 

  • Case Study Approach. The text now opens with a chapter containing six newly written, business-related case studies to which reference is made in subsequent chapters throughout the text.
  • Two Entirely New Chapters have been added to the beginning of the text to provide a more modern context: a totally new chapter on capital construction and a totally new chapter on the federal government.
  • Updated Citations and References have been added.
  • Contemporary School Business Developments feature has been added where appropriate, linked directly to adjacent text material.

Table of Contents:

 

Preface

            i.    Series Description

                        a. Specification of how this volume aligns with ELCC Standards

b. Clarification of approach to citations/references via provision of further readings section and end note citations

            ii.   Foreword

            iii. Acknowledgements

 

Section 1: Contextual Factors Influencing Schools and Educational Leaders

 

1.  The Evolving Context of Strategic Education Leadership

·         The evolving nature of 21st Century life and its consequences for education

·         The changing nature of leadership when change itself is the dominant force in the world

·         Strategic leadership contrasted with historical predecessors

·         Forces shaping,  including those opposing, the new globalism

·         Consequences for organizations of the new global dynamic

 

2.  Qualities of Strategic Education Leaders

·         A discussion of the definition of leadership

·         Historic insights regarding the origin of leadership, nature or nurture

·         Characteristics that distinguish a modern, “strategic”, leader.

·         Significance of vision

·         The application of strategic leadership to educational settings though cycles of appraisal, analysis and action

·         Strategic teacher leadership

 

3.  Creating a Strategic Organization

·         Alignments between strategic leadership and a strategic organization

·         Components of organizations as systems

·         What is known regarding organizational change

·         Organizational change imperatives

 

Section 2: Knowledge Strategic Leaders Need

 

4.  Governance

·            The organization and control of American education

·            The never-ending layers of statutory and legal authority that impinge on education leaders

·            The multiple constituencies with which education leaders are inevitably involved

 

5.  Politics and Policy

·            The application of Systems Theory to politics and education policy

·            A system paradigm explaining political actions

·            Conceptual lenses through which a leader may view policy

·            A brief history of key American education policies

 

6.  Finance

·            The financial magnitude of the operation of the United States public school system

·            The evolution of United States Education finance Polices

·            Means by which revenues are generated and distributed to support public school in the Untied States

·            Mechanisms by which resources are allocated (budgeted) within school districts and schools

·            Inefficiencies inherent in the operation of school fiscal management

·            Factors contributing to the stasis in educational accounting practices

·            The fiscal landscape that education leaders will likely confront in the upcoming decades

 

7.  Law

·            The role of law in shaping the operational context for education leaders.

·            Constitutional and jurisprudential underpinnings of American education.

·            Court cases of historic significance for American education and, hence of professional importance for leaders.

·            Criteria for judicial intervention in an issue.

·            Cases illustrating students’ judicially protected and restricted rights.

·            Cases illustrating employees’ judicially protected and restricted rights.

8.  Learning

·            The link between student achievement expectations, expressed in today’s policy environment as academic standards, and individual learning

·            Theories of how people learn

·            The issue of knowledge transfer via a discussion of the distinction between learning to acquire skills and learning for deeper understandings

·            Approaches to motivating learners

·            The role of teachers in the learning process

 

Section 3: The Application of Skillful Education Leadership

 

9.  Planning

·            The definition of strategic planning and the tactical components comprising the planning process.

·            The advantages strategic planning holds as a dynamic management instrument for an education agency. 

·            Who should be engaged in planning.

·            What comprises a reasonable planning time frame and time horizon.

 

10.  Power

·            What is included in the concept and application of power

·            Sources of power for a leader

·            Effective uses of power in leading an organization

·            Approaches to power practically available to a strategic leader

·            Limits on a leader’s use of power

 

11.  People

·            The significance of people for schooling’s success

·            The profile of America’s education professionals

·            Contemporary educator personnel incentives and compensation practices

·            Educator compensation reform possibilities

·            Suggestions for recruiting and selecting personnel

·            Strategies for ensuring productive professional development for educators

·            Strategies for providing effective evaluation of educators

·            Motivating people to promote organizational effectiveness

 

12.  Program Issues in American Education

·            The influence of A Nation at Risk and the No Child Left Behind act on school programs

·            The role of the “standards and accountability” movement in American education

·            Approaches to rating the efficacy of state academic standards

·            The importance of alignment between standards, assessments and instructional programs

·            Mechanisms for assessing and enhancing the content of school programs

·            Links between K-12 and University programs

 

13.  Performance Issues in American Education

·               Approaches to assessing the performance of K-12 school students

·               Mechanisms for assessing the performance of education leaders

·               Issues associated with evaluating school effectiveness

·               Value-added performance measures

·               Performance-based compensation systems for educators

·               National and international perspectives on educational performance

 

14.  Practicing Leadership

·               Consciously crafting a personal leadership style

·               Identifying one’s core values relevant to leadership

·               Constructing a professional philosophy of education and of management

·               Setting priorities for leadership action

·               Considerations in deploying people, resources, and time

·               Communicating with a spectrum of audiences

·               Employing leadership symbols and influencing follower impressions

·               Difficult conversations with colleagues, subordinates, and upperlings

·               The significance to a leader of personal ethics and consistent behavior

 

15.  Involving Communities and Families in Schooling

·               The importance and impact of community and family involvement

·               Strategies for effectively connecting schools, families & communities

·               Collecting data on community and family involvement

·               Including families and communities in school decisions

 

16. Strategic Approaches to Decision Making in Education Organizations

·               The complex context facing strategic education leaders

·               The importance of data-driven decision making for education leaders

·               A systematic process for making data-based decisions

·               The use of performance data in the design and operation of instructional programs and in guiding staff development

·               A consideration of data infrastructure requirement to support school and district data-based decisions

·               Various ways that school leaders can use data to guide programmatic, personnel and resource-based decisions

 

17. Preparing to be a Strategic Education Leader

·            The magnitude of the demand for education leaders

·            The evolving global context shaping education’s leadership roles

·            Why strategic leadership necessitates preparation different from the past

·            The Remuneration of Education Leaders

·            Opportunistic and activist paths to leadership positions

·            The high return on investment (ROI) for leadership training

 

Appendices

Glossary

Index

Subject

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    School Business Administration develops a rationale for how school business administration functions and describes that role in current practice.

    This text maintains that the purpose of school business administration is to contribute to instructional effectiveness by helping key decision-makers use financial resources to maximize the achievement of educational goals. It views school business administration as a collaborative enterprise and takes a positive, proactive approach to the contemporary problems and issues facing education today. Throughout, the text describes and applies new management concepts to school business administration and continually links concepts to practice using “real world” examples.

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This text covers historical and current trends in leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination. The “Modern” approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary American school leaders. It is part of Allyn & Bacon’s new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, one of the leading schools of education in the world.

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