Creating Great Schools offers a hands-on primer that will help arm school leaders with the tools they need to buck the system from within.

Features:

• Shows educational leaders how they can sustain continuous innovation and improvement in order to create truly great schools
• Outlines the six critical systems that define the norms and expressions of the school’s organizational culture¾recruitment and induction, knowledge transmission, power and authority, evaluation, direction, and boundaries¾and shows what it takes to lead effective systemic change in order to sustain new values and direction
• Filled with effective strategies and offers guidelines for introducing the “disruptive innovations” that are necessary to change the fundamental norms of an educational organization and truly revitalize a school
• Offers suggestions for working through the thorny issues that arise from the efforts to introduce new norms and provides school leaders with valuable insights of the critical rules, roles, and relationships in schools

Contents

The Need for Change

• From Compliance to Engagement
• Understanding the Normative System
• Patterns of Commitment, Engagement, and Compliance

Six Critical Systems

• The Recruitment and Induction System
• The Knowledge Transmission System
• The Power and Authority System
• The Evaluation System
• The Directional System
• The Boundary System

New Norms, New Values, New Directions

• The Changing Context
• The Future of Public Education in America

Index

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