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 | | Creating Great Schools: Six Critical Systems at the Heart of Educational Innovation (Jossey Bass Education Series) by Phillip C. Schlechty ISBN-10: 9780787976903 ISBN-10: 0-7879-7690-3 ISBN-13: 9780787976903 ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-7690-3 Hardcover 2005-02-21 Jossey-Bass Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description In Creating Great Schools, Phillip C. Schlechty—one of the nation’s best-known experts on leadership and change in schools—offers a hands-on primer that will help arm school leaders with the tools they need to buck the system from within. Creating Great Schools shows educational leaders how they can sustain continuous innovation and improvement in order to create truly great schools. Schlechty 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. The book is 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. He 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. | ||
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The Last Hope for Our American Democracy As a school principal who has been guided by the framework of Dr. Schlechty for a dozen years, I truly believe that those who roll up their sleeves and do the work in schools everyday know that to move a school "from good to great", each of these systems need to be in place. Not an "easy read" by any means, Phil Schlechty continuously causes the reader to really think about the importance of the engagement of students and staff in the design of the learning process. To become a learning organization, the values, beliefs, roles and relationships of those involved must be clearly defined at the highest level. Schools can no longer metaphorically reflect a hospital, factory or prison model to survive the next decade, much less the next century. Leadership and engagement must occur at every level of the organization, whether it be an individual school house or a school system. Our current politicians who use the rhetoric of "no child left behind" to define schools, need to sit up and take note that it was a "free and public education for all" at the grass roots from which our democracy has been able to sustain and flourish, not one that promotes an elitest system driven by government. I recommend this book as a tool for everyone who has the passion and heart to see that our children are prepared to survive in the world in which they will live. Conversation about and the action of these six critical systems must occur throughout communities for the survival of public education itself. | ||