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Download full textLindelow, John; Heynderickx, James – 1989
Chapter 5 of a revised volume on school leadership, this chapter presents the case for school-based management, stressing the principal's central role. In site management, the school is the primary decision-making unit. Decisions concerning expenditures, curricula, and personnel are made by school site staff, with help from parents, students, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Peer reviewedFisher, Scott – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
To increase parental involvement, Mount Carmel High School (Poway, California) has adopted strategic-planning change model. Successful strategic plans are connected to school mission and core values, gain staff support, remain open to input from all parties, build trust and rapport among participants, ensure open communication with stakeholders,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Guidelines, High Schools, Parent Participation
Andersen, Beth; Klein, Frances – 1990
Klein's conceptual framework of curriculum decision making is applied to the site-based decision making process in a suburban California school district. The model is composed of two interacting dimensions: participants at different levels and curriculum elements. Three levels of decision making--formal, institutional, and instructional--are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
Vail, Kathleen – Executive Educator, 1996
To ease the transition to participative decision making, some site-based-managed schools are turning to technologies such as computers, spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail, voice mail, databases, and the Internet. Although few schools recognize available technological options and their ability to improve accountability, some administrators in…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Electronic Mail
Koppich, Julia E.; Kerchner, Charles T. – 1990
Since 1987, 12 California school districts and their teachers' unions have experimented with a new form of labor accord called an Educational Policy Trust Agreement. The project helps teachers, as represented by their unions, and school management to reach agreements on issues that are not included within the scope of traditional collective…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Demands
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1993
This report highlights recent legislation in Minnesota and California concerning charter schools, schools designed and run by teachers under contract with a public sponsor, and provides a brief overview of the issues involved in the establishment of charter schools as a strategy for improving public schools. In Minnesota, charter school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
