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Watkins, Karen E.; Marsick, Victoria J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1999
The learning organization learns continually and has the capacity to transform itself. This article presents a model addressing three levels of interrelated learning (individual, team, and organizational) and discusses seven action imperatives. Creating continuous learning opportunities, promoting dialog and inquiry, and building teams are vital…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility, Models, School Organization

Johnson, William L.; Johnson, Annabel M. – NASSP Bulletin, 1999
A nationwide study of 500 schools showed that attending an effectively organized high school is worth an extra year's achievement over the course of one's high-school career. Only student aptitude trumped school organization as an achievement influence. Productive schools stress sound planning, people and program development, and accountability.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Futures (of Society), High Schools, School Effectiveness
Sammon, Grace – High School Magazine, 2000
Before diving into a change effort, principals should involve others in surveying the landscape, assessing the school's strengths, and identifying those responsible for past successes. Principals must then adopt an attitude of increased expectations; allow for comprehensive, meaningful planning; and commit to a continuous-improvement process. (MLH)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, High Schools, Leadership Responsibility

Erb, Tom – Middle School Journal, 1999
Discusses the differences between applications of interdisciplinary philosophy to school organization and to curriculum. Details organizational and curricular arrangements, notes that the two organizational arrangements can support any of the curricular arrangements, but that the term "interdisciplinary" means one thing when it modifies school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Millward, Robert E. – School Administrator, 2000
Three-dimensional model building can help superintendents understand and monitor alternative perceptions of the school organization. Using simple models to depict district leadership or supervision plans (using nails in a board or other simple materials) can bring tangible meaning to abstract visions. (MLH)
Descriptors: Brain, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Models
Arencibia, J. Santiago; Moreno, Juan Manuel – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2005
This paper presents the results of a two-year qualitative inquiry, carried out in Spain, on a rather neglected side of external support to schools: the personal and professional experience of external support agents when they go back to teaching. These ex-advisers are career teachers who return 'home' to school after having left it to serve for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Support, School Organization, Qualitative Research
Cable, Kelly E.; Spradlin, Terry E. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2008
Single-sex education describes a diverse range of situations, including individual classes, programs after school, required programs, voluntary programs, and programs to remedy gender inequities and encourage cultural and racial pride. This brief addresses the genesis and legality of single-sex classrooms, the merits and critiques of single-sex…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Issues, Educational Policy
Grant, Jim – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
This book is a survival guide as well as a valuable tool for making our schools more effective and appropriate places for students to learn and achieve. Exploring the often complex, multifaceted, and co-occurring problems in the education system, the book addresses specific problems, discusses the real reasons they developed and persist, describes…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Instructional Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Browne-Ferrigno, Tricia – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2007
This article shares findings from an exploratory case study about an advanced school leadership development program designed specifically for practicing principals and administrator-trained teachers. The program was designed to help a high-need rural district transform its principalship from school management into learner-center leadership while…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Principals, Teacher Leadership
Tubin, Dorit; Klein, Sarit – Planning and Changing, 2007
Over the past few years, as part of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) reform on the one hand, and the increased demands for school accountability on the other, more and more schools have launched a school website aimed at enhancing educational activities, supporting student-teacher communication, contributing to school marketing…
Descriptors: School Organization, Web Sites, Internet, Content Analysis
Yan, Wenfan – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2006
School district size is important to policymakers and educators who need to determine the most effective way to structure school organization. For more than 40 years, a growing body of research has focused on the relationship between school size and school effectiveness (Monk & Plecki, 1999). Early studies did not address the effect of school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, School District Size, School Organization
Talley, Wade Kenneth; Keedy, John L. – Education and Urban Society, 2006
This study identified the enabling conditions related to building instructional capacity created by the councils in three high-performance schools in an urban district. The authors collected the data through observation, interview, and document mining. School-level data were sorted inductively into themes through constant comparative analysis.…
Descriptors: School Councils, Instructional Development, School Organization, Decision Making
Allensworth, Elaine; Ponisciak, Stephen; Mazzeo, Christopher – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2009
This report reveals that about 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children. In the typical Chicago elementary school, 51 percent of the teachers working in 2002 had left…
Descriptors: African American Children, High Schools, Elementary Schools, Teacher Persistence
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
One of the ultimate goals of policy makers is to enable citizens to take advantage of a globalised world economy. This is leading them to focus on the improvement of education policies, ensuring the quality of service provision, a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and stronger incentives for greater efficiency in schooling.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Policy Analysis, Human Capital, Educational Finance
Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Teachers are facing an increasing number of changes in their job context, many of which significantly affect their work lives. This study offers a theoretical understanding of the changes in teachers' working conditions, starting from the intensification thesis. The case study of a Flemish (Belgian) elementary school shows the existence of various…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teaching Conditions, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers