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Kentucky Department of Education, 2016
This guidebook provides school councils and district School-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Coordinators with a list of tools and checklists when reviewing and revising school council bylaws and policies. The samples noted in this guidebook are just that, samples; they are not to be considered exemplars or the only way to organize a policy. A school…
Descriptors: Guides, Decision Making, School Policy, School Districts
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Taniguchi, Kyoko; Hirakawa, Yukiko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
School management in many sub-Saharan African countries has been enhanced through community participation in an attempt to improve education quality. This study uses field research in a rural district of Malawi to assess how community and parent participation differs between schools, the intentions of communities and parents when carrying out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, School Based Management
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Hallinger, Philip; Lu, Jiafang – School Leadership & Management, 2014
Over the past 30 years, school principals have been exhorted to articulate a clear vision as a key tool for stimulating the improvement of teaching and learning in their schools. Over the past decade, as school systems have sought to distribute leadership more broadly within schools, the same imperative has applied to middle-level leaders. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Middle Management
Center for Collaborative Education, 2012
A Pilot School is a public school in the Boston Public School district with teachers who are members of the Boston Teachers Union. A Horace Mann Charter School is a public school under a Massachusetts state charter that operates within a regular school district and serves the students and families enrolled in that district. An Innovation School, a…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Charter Schools, School Based Management
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Cheng, Lu Pien; Ko, Ho-Kyoung – Mathematics Educator, 2009
This paper documents how a team progressed through the five stages of team development as a result of a school-based professional development program using a laboratory class cycle. Six Grade two teachers and their administrator in a primary school in the southeastern United States participated in the study. All the teachers were interviewed at…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Team Training, Laboratories, Professional Development
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Cheng, Yin Cheong; Cheung, Wing Ming – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
How school-based management in the form of multilevel self-management is related to educational quality is a crucial issue in current educational reforms. An empirical study was conducted to explore this issue in a sample of 68 primary schools in Hong Kong. It was found that the school environment of sampled schools could be classified into 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Governance, Educational Quality