The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence
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"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
"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, NJ
"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.
Redefine leadership and engineer improved student achievement!
Educational reform. Organizational development. Increased diversity. Accountability. The climate in education today demands an understanding of key concepts. More important, educators beg for answers to important underlying questions. How can we reform education in order to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population? How can we develop an alliance that holds itself accountable to the success and failure of every school, every student? This guide leads you on a path of surprising answers and unorthodox solutions to the problems facing schools today.
The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence explores the necessity for building strong relationships among administrators, teachers, parents, and the community by:
- Planning strategically
- Benchmarking for excellence
- Leading collaboratively
- Engaging the community
- Governing by standards
Leading a school to excellence involves more than just the principal--every member of the community must be involved in order to make a difference in a school's success.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Introduction
1. The Missing Essential Connections to Educational Excellence
- Unconnected Systems
- Thinking and Planning Strategically
- Benchmarking for Excellence
- Leading Collaboratively
- Engaging the Public
- Standards-Based Governance and Quality Assurance
- The Integrated Essentials
- The Power of Consensus
- Random Acts of Improvement
- Summary
2. The Power of Thinking and Planning Strategically
- Commitment by Governance
- Preparing for Strategic Planning
- The Power of Conversation in Public Education
- The Politics of Strategic Planning
- Training the Stakeholders
- The Mission and Building Principals
- Personal Investment in the Plan
- Public Engagement in Communicating the Plan
- Summary
3. Benchmarking for Excellence Using the Sterling System
- Benchmarking, Intelligence, and the Sterling System
- Student-Results Benchmarking
- Benchmark for Organizational Success
- Integrated Management Systems Designed for Student Excellence, Using Benchmarking and Competitive Intellgience To Achieve Excellence
- Summary
4. Leading Collaboratively for Combined Wisdom
- Transforming Leadership
- Transformationg the Principalship
- Change Comes From the Edge
- The Role of Personality Preferences in the Restructured Organization
- The Interpersonal Dynamics of Collaboration
- Retro-Programs, Sacred Cows
- Collaborative Organizations
- Organizational Characteristics of a Personal Bureaucracy
- At the Core of Collaborative Success
- Leadership and Followership
- Leadership Needed Today
- Principles Governing a Principal's Work
- Legitimate Followership
- Local Leadership Academy
- Systems Thinking
- Summary
5. Engage the Public in a Productive and Proactive Manner
- Nine Factors of Engagement
- Public Involvement
- Building Principals and the Nine Factors
- Deeper Public Involvement
- S.W.A.T. Teams: Schools Where Achievement Thrives
- Kitchen Talks
- School Block Talk
- Principal-Led Parental Collaboration
- Summary
6. Govern by Standards Developed With the Stakeholders
- Building Principals and the Need for Standards of Excellence
- Developing Standards of Excellence Consistent With School Vision
- Govern by Standards
- The Governance Model
- Summary
7. Empower Integrated Management Systems With Five Essential Skills
- The Sterling Criteria for Organizaitonal Performance Excellence
- Principals, Five Essentials, and Sterling
- What Drives Organizations to Sterling Excellence?
- Sterling Core Values
- Summary
8. Integrate the Five Essentials
- Simultaneous Development
- The Cycle of Implementation of the Five Essentials
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Administrative Arrangements versus Curricular Concerns
- Justify or Eliminate
- Summary
9. Chaos, Essentials, and Learning Organizations
- Five Essentials and the New Science
- Information, Relationships, and Chaos
- The Five Essentials and School Culture
- The Five Essentials and Learning Organizations
- Summary
10. Conlusion
- The Leadership Trap
- The Discipline of Dialogue
- Have You Told Them That?
- Changing Times, Changing Challenges
- Captain Education
- What Now?
- Summary
Epilogue
Epilogue
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"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
"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, NJ
"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.
Redefine leadership and engineer improved student achievement!
Educational reform. Organizational development. Increased diversity. Accountability. The climate in education today demands an understanding of key concepts. More important, educators beg for answers to important underlying questions. How can we reform education in order to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population? How can we develop an alliance that holds itself accountable to the success and failure of every school, every student? This guide leads you on a path of surprising answers and unorthodox solutions to the problems facing schools today.
The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence explores the necessity for building strong relationships among administrators, teachers, parents, and the community by:
- Planning strategically
- Benchmarking for excellence
- Leading collaboratively
- Engaging the community
- Governing by standards
Leading a school to excellence involves more than just the principal--every member of the community must be involved in order to make a difference in a school's success.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Introduction
1. The Missing Essential Connections to Educational Excellence
- Unconnected Systems
- Thinking and Planning Strategically
- Benchmarking for Excellence
- Leading Collaboratively
- Engaging the Public
- Standards-Based Governance and Quality Assurance
- The Integrated Essentials
- The Power of Consensus
- Random Acts of Improvement
- Summary
2. The Power of Thinking and Planning Strategically
- Commitment by Governance
- Preparing for Strategic Planning
- The Power of Conversation in Public Education
- The Politics of Strategic Planning
- Training the Stakeholders
- The Mission and Building Principals
- Personal Investment in the Plan
- Public Engagement in Communicating the Plan
- Summary
3. Benchmarking for Excellence Using the Sterling System
- Benchmarking, Intelligence, and the Sterling System
- Student-Results Benchmarking
- Benchmark for Organizational Success
- Integrated Management Systems Designed for Student Excellence, Using Benchmarking and Competitive Intellgience To Achieve Excellence
- Summary
4. Leading Collaboratively for Combined Wisdom
- Transforming Leadership
- Transformationg the Principalship
- Change Comes From the Edge
- The Role of Personality Preferences in the Restructured Organization
- The Interpersonal Dynamics of Collaboration
- Retro-Programs, Sacred Cows
- Collaborative Organizations
- Organizational Characteristics of a Personal Bureaucracy
- At the Core of Collaborative Success
- Leadership and Followership
- Leadership Needed Today
- Principles Governing a Principal's Work
- Legitimate Followership
- Local Leadership Academy
- Systems Thinking
- Summary
5. Engage the Public in a Productive and Proactive Manner
- Nine Factors of Engagement
- Public Involvement
- Building Principals and the Nine Factors
- Deeper Public Involvement
- S.W.A.T. Teams: Schools Where Achievement Thrives
- Kitchen Talks
- School Block Talk
- Principal-Led Parental Collaboration
- Summary
6. Govern by Standards Developed With the Stakeholders
- Building Principals and the Need for Standards of Excellence
- Developing Standards of Excellence Consistent With School Vision
- Govern by Standards
- The Governance Model
- Summary
7. Empower Integrated Management Systems With Five Essential Skills
- The Sterling Criteria for Organizaitonal Performance Excellence
- Principals, Five Essentials, and Sterling
- What Drives Organizations to Sterling Excellence?
- Sterling Core Values
- Summary
8. Integrate the Five Essentials
- Simultaneous Development
- The Cycle of Implementation of the Five Essentials
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Administrative Arrangements versus Curricular Concerns
- Justify or Eliminate
- Summary
9. Chaos, Essentials, and Learning Organizations
- Five Essentials and the New Science
- Information, Relationships, and Chaos
- The Five Essentials and School Culture
- The Five Essentials and Learning Organizations
- Summary
10. Conlusion
- The Leadership Trap
- The Discipline of Dialogue
- Have You Told Them That?
- Changing Times, Changing Challenges
- Captain Education
- What Now?
- Summary
Epilogue
Epilogue
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
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The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence
Maximizing Schoolwide Student Achievement and Performance
June 2003 | 184 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 28/04/2023 | 9780761939559 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 28/04/2023 | 9781483360584 | $36.00 |
"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
"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, NJ
"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.
Redefine leadership and engineer improved student achievement!
Educational reform. Organizational development. Increased diversity. Accountability. The climate in education today demands an understanding of key concepts. More important, educators beg for answers to important underlying questions. How can we reform education in order to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population? How can we develop an alliance that holds itself accountable to the success and failure of every school, every student? This guide leads you on a path of surprising answers and unorthodox solutions to the problems facing schools today.
The Five Essentials of Organizational Excellence explores the necessity for building strong relationships among administrators, teachers, parents, and the community by:
- Planning strategically
- Benchmarking for excellence
- Leading collaboratively
- Engaging the community
- Governing by standards
Leading a school to excellence involves more than just the principal--every member of the community must be involved in order to make a difference in a school's success.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Missing Essential Connections to Educational Excellence
- Unconnected Systems
- Thinking and Planning Strategically
- Benchmarking for Excellence
- Leading Collaboratively
- Engaging the Public
- Standards-Based Governance and Quality Assurance
- The Integrated Essentials
- The Power of Consensus
- Random Acts of Improvement
- Summary
- 2. The Power of Thinking and Planning Strategically
- Commitment by Governance
- Preparing for Strategic Planning
- The Power of Conversation in Public Education
- The Politics of Strategic Planning
- Training the Stakeholders
- The Mission and Building Principals
- Personal Investment in the Plan
- Public Engagement in Communicating the Plan
- Summary
- 3. Benchmarking for Excellence Using the Sterling System
- Benchmarking, Intelligence, and the Sterling System
- Student-Results Benchmarking
- Benchmark for Organizational Success
- Integrated Management Systems Designed for Student Excellence, Using Benchmarking and Competitive Intellgience To Achieve Excellence
- Summary
- 4. Leading Collaboratively for Combined Wisdom
- Transforming Leadership
- Transformationg the Principalship
- Change Comes From the Edge
- The Role of Personality Preferences in the Restructured Organization
- The Interpersonal Dynamics of Collaboration
- Retro-Programs, Sacred Cows
- Collaborative Organizations
- Organizational Characteristics of a Personal Bureaucracy
- At the Core of Collaborative Success
- Leadership and Followership
- Leadership Needed Today
- Principles Governing a Principal's Work
- Legitimate Followership
- Local Leadership Academy
- Systems Thinking
- Summary
- 5. Engage the Public in a Productive and Proactive Manner
- Nine Factors of Engagement
- Public Involvement
- Building Principals and the Nine Factors
- Deeper Public Involvement
- S.W.A.T. Teams: Schools Where Achievement Thrives
- Kitchen Talks
- School Block Talk
- Principal-Led Parental Collaboration
- Summary
- 6. Govern by Standards Developed With the Stakeholders
- Building Principals and the Need for Standards of Excellence
- Developing Standards of Excellence Consistent With School Vision
- Govern by Standards
- The Governance Model
- Summary
- 7. Empower Integrated Management Systems With Five Essential Skills
- The Sterling Criteria for Organizaitonal Performance Excellence
- Principals, Five Essentials, and Sterling
- What Drives Organizations to Sterling Excellence?
- Sterling Core Values
- Summary
- 8. Integrate the Five Essentials
- Simultaneous Development
- The Cycle of Implementation of the Five Essentials
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Administrative Arrangements versus Curricular Concerns
- Justify or Eliminate
- Summary
- 9. Chaos, Essentials, and Learning Organizations
- Five Essentials and the New Science
- Information, Relationships, and Chaos
- The Five Essentials and School Culture
- The Five Essentials and Learning Organizations
- Summary
- 10. Conlusion
- The Leadership Trap
- The Discipline of Dialogue
- Have You Told Them That?
- Changing Times, Changing Challenges
- Captain Education
- What Now?
- Summary
- Epilogue
- References
- Index