Why do we need to plan? What is the best way to plan? As schools become increasingly responsible for their own affairs, these are just two of the critical questions which school leaders must address. Values Based Strategic Planning is an exciting new approach which is delightfully simple to operate and which involves everyone in the school and accounts for people's fundamental beliefs about education and schooling. The whole process can be completed in one day, and the result is a strategic plan that reflects the school's priorities and has the wholehearted commitment of those who have to put it into operation. The first section of the book, on strategic planning, leadership, organisational design and how to rethink the school's purpose, is particularly valuable to leaders who need a thorough understanding of strategic planning and to students of education management. The second section provides a step-by-step guide to Values Based Strategic Planning along with all the materials needed to run the process in your school. Values Based Strategic Planning has been used with great success in many organisations and promises to transform the planning process in schools into one that really works and that wins the hearts and minds of those involved.

Values Based Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Approach for Schools

Business & Money

Scott, Kenneth

Stott, Kenneth

Walker, Allan

Quong, Terry

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

This thought provoking, controversial, light and yet serious book look at what the manager can do in order to improve his/her skills, make things better for the organisation or improve conditions for employee. 
This book is suitable for all practising managers, supervisors, regardless of level. Achieve excellence in management by doing the right things and building the right skills in 20 straightforward lessons. Turn an average performer into a top-notch boss. 
In easy-to-understand language, this book explains: 1. How to empower your workers 2. How to motivate people 3. How to delegate properly 4. When to involve your staff in decision making 5. What you must do to build high performance teams 6. How to interview so that you can select the right persons 7. How to make meetings productive 8. How to deal with conflict 9. How to make more time for yourself

Fabulous Manager: 20 Key Lessons Towards Management Excellence

Prentice Hall Direct

Deciphering Chinese School Leadership (Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia)

Deciphering Chinese School Leadership: Conceptualisation, Context and Complexities (Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia)

Qian, Haiyan

Reference

Routledge

This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the mediating influence of culture. In this way, these essays stress the specific aspects of the cultures studied, and map out common ground for the study of administrators' values, beliefs, and actions.

School Leadership and Administration: Adopting a Cultural Perspective (Reference Books In International Education)

Education & Teaching

Dimmock, Clive

Schools & Teaching

This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the mediating influence of culture. In this way, these essays stress the specific aspects of the cultures studied, and map out common ground for the study of administrators' values, beliefs, and actions.

School Leadership and Administration (Reference Books In International Education)

The International Baccalaureate in Asia: Navigating a Changing Landscape (Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia)

Lee, Moosung

Wright, Ewan

With existing educational leadership models and theories being predominantly western influenced, this book aims to provide more insight into school leadership in China. It pioneers building research- and practice-informed knowledge and unravels the complexities that characterize the scholarship, context and practices of school leadership. School leadership in China is presented through four sub-purposes: investigating how Chinese school leadership is conceptualized in the international and Chinese literature; exploring the shifting context within which Chinese school leaders enact their leadership, and examining key policies that have shaped the practice of leader development; extending the understandings about the complexities of work lives of Chinese school leaders; and further locating indigenous understandings of Chinese school leadership in the political and socio-cultural context of contemporary China, and the theoretical and conceptual context of international school leadership. This text will be particularly useful to international education researchers with focus on educational leadership, comparative education, education policy and education in China.

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