Mapping educational success : strategic thinking and planning for school administrators / Roger Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Roger A.

Series:

Successful schools ; v. 1.

Successful schools ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational planning--United States.

Educational planning.

United States.

Strategic planning--United States.

Strategic planning.

School management and organization--United States.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

xx, 185 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [1994]

Summary:

This revised edition of Mapping Educational Success has been updated to include the latest insights into planning and delivering successful education. The author suggests that principals and administrators should make a strategic shift to an orientation where results are always the central focus. This would involve new methods of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating in order to achieve predictable educational success.

Contents:

1. Strategic Thinking: What and Why 1

1.1 Education: What's Our Role and How Are We Doing? 1

1.2 Changing the Way We View the World: Shifting Paradigms and Mental Gears 7

1.3 Strategic Thinking: Setting Our Direction 9

1.4 Who Is the Primary Client of What Gets Planned and Delivered? 12

1.5 Why Our Educational Problems Persist 19

1.6 Involvement, Commitment, and Sustained Payoffs 23

2. A Framework and Basic Concepts for Strategic Thinking and Planning 28

2.1 The Three Phases of Strategic Thinking and Planning 28

2.2 Mistakes Usually Made by Educators and Their Partners 37

2.3 Implied Criticism When Doing Strategic Thinking and Planning 40

2.4 Educational Results, Efforts, Consequences, and Payoffs 40

2.5 Strategic Planning and Strategic Planning Plus 43

2.6 Partners in Educational Thinking, Planning, and Success 44

3. Objectives and Needs Assessment: Basic Building Blocks 47

3.1 We Don't Like Complexity 48

3.2 On Thinking (and Talking) Straight in Education 48

3.3 Preparing Useful Objectives 49

3.4 Preparing Mission Statements and Mission Objectives 52

3.5 Define "Needs" as Gaps in Results, Not as Insufficient Levels of Resources or Methods 53

3.6 Applications of Needs Assessment 56

3.7 Needs Assessments Will Find Problems, Identify What Shouldn't Be Changed, and Recognize Opportunities 62

3.8 Objectives, Needs Assessment, and the Seven Basic Questions 64

3.9 Restructuring That Will Really Change the System for the Better 67

3.10 The Basic Steps of Educational System Planning 67

3.11 Strategic Planning: Reviewing the Six Critical Success Factors 69

4. Mega-Level Planning: The Larger Community and Society 72

4.1 Scoping 73

4.2 Mega Level Is the Ideal Vision 73

4.3 Planning 93

4.4 Implementation and Evaluation 95

4.5 Relating Several Varieties of Strategic Planning 96

5. Macro-Level Planning: The District or School 98

5.1 When the Primary Beneficiary Is the Educational Organization Itself 98

5.2 Scoping 103

5.3 Planning 112

5.4 Implementation and Evaluation 114

6. Micro-Level Planning: People, Programs, Courses 116

6.1 When the Primary Beneficiary Is an Educational Organization's Internal Client 116

6.2 Scoping 121

6.3 Planning 130

6.4 Implementation and Evaluation 132

7. Completing the Plan and Putting It to Work 135

7.1 Development of the Strategic Action Plan 135

7.2 Completing the Plan 140

7.3 Management, Leadership, and Operations 142

7.4 Shifting Our Thinking, Changing Our Organizational Culture 143

7.5 Total Quality Management (TQM) 144

7.6 Quality Management "Plus" (QM+) 148

8. Strategic Thinking in Action 151

8.1 Keep Problems From Arising in the First Place 152

8.2 When Troubles Surface 153

8.3 The Ultimate Education Troubleshooting Tool Kit 158

9. A Hypothetical Case: Strategic Thinking in Sleightown School District 159

9.1 The Assignment 160

9.2 Planning to Plan 161

9.3 Selecting the Strategic Framework 164

9.4 Strategic Thinking and Planning Begin 164

9.5 Implementation and Evaluation 175

9.6 Getting the Plan Accepted and Implemented 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0803962037

OCLC:

187448246