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Turning around failing schools : leadership lessons from the organizational sciences / Joseph Murphy, Coby V. Meyers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Joseph, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School management and organization--United States.
- School management and organization.
- United States.
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- Educational leadership--United States.
- Educational leadership.
- Organizational change--United States.
- Organizational change.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press : National Staff Devlopment Council : American Association of School Administrators, [2008]
- Summary:
- The insightful resource integrates research, strategies, and lessons from business, government, and not-for-profit organizations that have transformed their substandard performance into a proactive approach for renewal. The authors provide: A comprehensive overview of the literature an organizational deterioration, An in-depth examination of the causes and symptoms of degeneration, A two-part model for preventing educational collapse and crafting an effective turnaround, A review of the efficacy of educational reform initiatives. This indispensable text is ideal for district administrators, superintendents, policy makers, and individuals with an interest in organizational accountability and meaningful school reform.
- Contents:
- A framework for understanding turnaround
- Symptoms of decline
- Causes of organizational failure
- Crisis, consequences, and dysfunctional reactions
- Context and analytic frames for turnarounds
- Getting the right leadership
- Diagnosing the situation and taking emergency action
- Pathways to recovery: operational vision, efficiencies, and organizational processes
- Organizational work ethic and products
- Turning around failing schools: the landscape
- Turning around failing schools: the evidence.
- Notes:
- "A joint publication with the National Staff Development Council and the American Association of School Administrators."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412940962
- 1412940966
- 9781412940979
- 1412940974
- OCLC:
- 85833423
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