School-based management (SBM) remains a "hot topic" in educational circles. This article explores the reality of SBM internationally. It focusses on the perceptions of selected Australian public secondary principals who reflect on the drivers and impediments affecting their capacity to lead school-based innovation. While broadly…

This study explored high school teachers' perceptions of the effects of standards-based grading (SBG) on planning, instruction, assessment, classroom management, and student behaviors. Findings indicated that despite some infidelity and an initial implementation dip, systemic (SBG) changes made teaching clearer, more purposeful, and more conducive…

School turnaround initiatives have prioritized the school principal as the change lever. Little overall consideration about the critical role district leadership plays. In this study, we analyze the turnaround launch and, improvement plans of school district leaders participating in a university, turnaround program. We find that district leaders…

Strategic planners concerned with such matters as high-achieving students, high-performing teachers, broad-based community support, and a two-way involvement with the community must analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats existing in the school's internal and external environment. A sample SWOT analysis is included. (MLH)

Presents a model to help principals with strategic planning. Success hinges on involving stakeholders, scanning for relevant data, identifying critical success factors, developing vision and mission statements, analyzing the site manager's supports and constraints, creating strategic goals and objectives, developing action plans, allocating…

To assist adolescents with career exploration, counselors should help students identify their unique interests, skills, and personality characteristics; distinguish among several broad occupational areas; learn about different educational options as related to career choices; identify future decisions needed to achieve various goals; and make…

If administrators make sure that required competencies are taught in the existing curriculum, there will be no need to create remedial classes for those who fail competency tests. Without the need for remedial classes, there is no chance that the regular curriculum will be reduced to accommodate them. (IRT)

This mixed-methods study focuses on school improvement planning in middle schools in east Tennessee. Utilizing the improvement plans of 17 middle schools and surveys that were administered to 493 teachers and 35 administrators, this study found that there was (A) an overemphasis on academic goals, (B) an overreliance on the use of…

After reviewing the need for administrators to plan in order to be effective decision-makers, the writer presents a model of the planning process to stimulate improved efforts in educational planning. (Editor)

Presents a field-developed and tested method of comprehensive planning for program/project development. (Author)

An innovative counseling program developed at Gordon High School (Atlanta, Georgia) illustrates the importance of administrators and counselors working together in partnership. (MD)

Schools are being encouraged to include more technology, but planning is an essential step in integrating technology into the curriculum. Provides a description of a successful approach to curriculum development taken in Minnesota. (MD)

Presents guidelines for planning, structuring, and executing a productive program to target school sites for closure. Two ideals are emphasized: accomplishing the task correctly and convincing potential critics of the integrity of the decision. (Author/IRT)

Decremental planning is synonymous with the management of decline. (Author/IRT)