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Jochim, Ashley, Ed.; Gross, Betheny, Ed. – Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2016
"The SEA of the Future" is an education publication series examining how state education agencies can shift from a compliance to a performance-oriented organization through strategic planning and performance management tools to meet growing demands to support education reform while improving productivity. This volume, the sixth in the…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Redding, Sam – Academic Development Institute, 2012
This paper presents a Change Leadership Framework and applies the framework to the role of leadership in a State Education Agency (SEA) in setting the conditions for change to accelerate student learning. These conditions include the way the SEA directs its own change and the way it inspires and leads constructive change in districts and schools.…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, State Departments of Education
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Selmer, Jan; Lauring, Jakob; Jonasson, Charlotte – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
Joint work among academic staff is important for solving the ever-increasing number of complex tasks that are becoming part of everyday activities in higher education. At the same time, diversification and internationalisation may challenge collaboration processes and communication demands. Speaking a shared language consistently could be a way of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Science Departments
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Krejsler, John Benedicto – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
"The modernizing machine" codes individual bodies, things, and symbols with images from New Public Management, neo-liberal, and Knowledge Economy discourses. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of machines, this article explores how "the modernizing machine" produces neo-liberal modernization of the public sector. Taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Legislation
Chambliss, Catherine – 2003
Change itself often threatens efficiency. This is ironic, given that organizational changes are frequently made because of a need for increased efficiency. Academic departments within a wide variety of institutions are wrestling with this irony on a daily basis. Expanding systems and staffing, and adoption of new computer systems, all intended to…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Departments, Educational Change, Efficiency
Farquhar, Robin H. – 1978
Key features of the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan in 1976 and actions that were taken in light of these features over the subsequent two-year period are considered by the College's dean, who began the appointment in 1976. Three major objectives established by the dean were to: increase the institution's productivity in all…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Budgets, College Faculty