Provides school administrators with three managerial aids to assist in creating an organizational vision: (1) an operating definition of the vision concept; (2) a planning framework to support vision creation and implementation; and (3) a specific method for leading school organizations through the visioning process. (MLF)

When focusing school planning efforts around technology, educators may create costly "technocentric" plans that will not necessarily improve learning or increase school-community communication. Internet access is wasted unless students are taught critical-thinking/information-validation skills. Students do not need $2,000 pencils to…

Although education cannot be reduced to profit-and-loss statements, schools need clearly defined objectives, processes, and procedures. Schools can learn from corporations' benchmarking practices (standard setting, measurement, and consequences) and their past mistakes, such as the complacency that seriously weakened Xerox and AT&T. Schools…