ISSUES IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

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ISSUES IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
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Centralization vs. Decentralization

• Practicality of site-based management Let
  principals manage their schools
• Principals autonomy (Example Cluster school
  implementation)
• Power/autonomy and accountability
• Site-based management Rhetoric vs. reality
• Site-based management and school achievement?
• Distributed leadership in schools

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School SafetyAccountability Issue

• Emergency management
• Risk management
• Litigation issues
• Sexual harassment of staff and students
• School-wide prevention plan
• Safe and drug-free and violence-free schools
• Schooling crossings and traffic issues
• School Climate/culture and productivity

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Collaboration and Partnerships

• Definition of school partnerships
• Understanding of the communities they serve
• Respond to their needs and interests
• School family partnership
• Barriers to school family/community/business
  partnerships
• Collaboration with employers

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Consumers of Research vs.Researchers

• Should teachers and administrators continue to be
  consumer of research
• Benefits of action research
• Using research findings to inform professional
  practices
• School leaders to facilitate research among
  teachers/educators

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Inclusive vs. Exclusive Approach

• Management of special education The concept of
  inclusion
• Streaming practices in schools
• Advantages and disadvantages from different
  perspectives (Lead to self-fulfilling prophecy)
• Collaborative leadership structure
  participative decision making

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Educational Reforms Mandatory Change vs. Change
from Within

• Top down change initiatives/programs
• Why did most school reforms fail?
• Management of school-based change
• School policy and change
• Benchmarking, standardizing, key performance
  indicators/index and etc. Lead to more rigorous
  academic standards
• Guiding reforms through assessment and data
  analysis
• Sustaining change Factors affecting it!

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Gender Issues in Management

• Break the glass ceiling Discrimination
• Teachers touching children Sexual harassment
• Boys are doing poorly in schools
• Mrs. Brown vs. The lady principal
• Feminism in the teaching profession
• Leadership among female leaders

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Valued-ends Leadership

• Principals providing moral leadership
• Principals as educators
• Principals as community builders Creating
  community of learning within schools
• The concept of No Child Left Behind NCLB)
• Creating school that serve moral purposes
• School leaders to educational leaders
• Charismatic school leaders
• Leading by heart

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Principalship

• Principal preparation
• Professional qualifications for headship
• Socialization processes for early
  headship/induction programs
• Middle leadership in schools
• Developing school leaders through mentoring