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Organizing For Successful School-Based Management

Organizing For Successful School-Based Management

Organizing For Successful School-Based Management by Wohlstetter, Van Kirk, Robertson, and Mohrman (1997), offers a summary of findings from interviews and data collected from over 400 people and 40 schools that had been operating under school-based management (SBM) for at least three years (vii). The authors identify schools as actively restructuring or struggling. Actively restructuring schools were found to employ two or more teaching and learning innovations (use of technology, educating all students, and integrated services) and were using SBM to improve school performance; struggling schools had one or none of the innovations. Actively restructuring schools had more conditions that support organizational learning and integrating processes which enabled more innovative teaching practices directly and indirectly. This book discussed findings related to organizational conditions and related learning processes and teaching practices (vii-xiii).

Actively restructuring schools differed from struggling schools regarding organizational conditions and learning processes. Findings showed that decentralized management worked best when schools had power to make or influence decisions, knowledge and skills to perform effectively, information for good decisions, and rewards for performance. The authors further hypothesized that an instructional guidance mechanism with vision and guidelines focused on instructional improvement, leadership to provide cohesion and focus, and resources, are also conditions that explain the school's success (xii-xiii). Power was demonstrated in successful schools as dispersed. For example, a Site-Based Decision-Making council was created at one high school, with equal representation, and with seven task forces to study issues. This task force was responsible for selecting the principal and filling teacher vacancies, and setting up task forces for b...

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