Mapping Educational Success: Strategic Thinking and Planning for School Administrators / Edition 2

by Roger Kaufman

Overview

This revised edition of Mapping Educational Success has been updated to include the latest insights into planning and delivering successful education. The author suggests that principals and administrators should make a strategic shift to an orientation where results are always the central focus. This would involve new methods of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating in order to achieve predictable educational success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803962033
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/19/1994
Series:	Successful Schools , #1
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Roger Kaufman is Professor Emeritus, Florida State University, and Director of Roger Kaufman & Associates. He is also Distinguished Research Professor at the Sonora Institute of Technology. His Ph D is in communications from New York University. He consults with public and private organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,   Latin America, and Europe. He is a Certified Performance Technologist and a Diplomate in School Psychology and a Fellow in Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has been recognized by the ASTD for Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance. Dr. Kaufman has published 39 books and more than 256 articles on strategic planning, performance improvement, quality management and continuous improvement, needs assessment, management, and evaluation.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Fenwick W English
Strategic Thinking
What and Why
A Framework and Basic Concepts for Strategic Thinking and Planning
Objectives and Needs Assessment
Basic Building Blocks
Mega-Level Planning
The Larger Community and Society
Macro-Level Planning
The District or School
Micro-Level Planning
People, Programs, Courses
Completing the Plan and Putting It to Work
Strategic Thinking in Action
A Hypothetical Case
Strategic Thinking in Sleightown School District
Trouble-Shooting Guide