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Strategic Management for School Development
Leading Your School's Improvement Strategy

First Edition

September 2002 | 184 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This practical book introduces strategic management for senior managers in schools. The author shows how it can contribute to school development; explores the leadership of strategic school improvement, and presents a strategic planning model for schools. At each stage, he deals with practice and shows how this involves the organization of the whole process and the stages of analysis, choice and implementation.

Written at a very accessible and practical level, the book focuses on:

- how to generate ideas,

- communication and managing change,

- how to organize staff to work together on strategic planning.

Numerous activities are also included, designed to facilitate staff discussion of strategic analysis and strategic choice

This book is essential for head teachers, deputy heads, and local authority professionals.


 
Introduction
 
Strategy
 
Leadership and Strategy
 
Working Together and Involvement
 
Managing School Improvement
 
A Strategic Planning Model for Schools
 
Strategic Analysis
Where are We Now and What Might the Future Hold?

 
 
Vision and Strategic Choice
 
Implementation and Monitoring
 
Conclusion

I have recommended this book for my students who are school principals and have registered educational leadership and management module. This is a valuable resource for any school principal to have or any member of the school management team.

Professor Sello Mokoena
Teacher Education, University of South Africa
February 13, 2013

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