The Governance Core: School Boards, Superintendents, and Schools Working Together
Autor Davis W. Campbell, Michael Fullanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2019
Aplicabilitatea practică a volumului The Governance Core rezidă în transformarea guvernării locale din educație dintr-un proces adesea marcat de tensiuni politice într-un sistem de decizie unificat, orientat către rezultatele elevilor. Notăm cu interes faptul că autorii nu se limitează la teorii administrative, ci propun o recalibrare a relației dintre consiliile școlare și superintendents, bazată pe ceea ce ei numesc „imperativul moral”. Descoperim aici o analiză profundă a modului în care mentalitățile individuale influențează eficacitatea sistemului, oferind un cadru în care politica și guvernarea pot conlucra productiv.
Structura cărții este riguros organizată pentru a facilita această tranziție. Prima parte se concentrează pe definirea nucleului de guvernare, urmată de capitole specifice care analizează „Trustee Governance Mindset” și „Superintendent Governance Mindset”. Această abordare duală este esențială, deoarece recunoaște responsabilitățile distincte, dar interdependente, ale celor două părți. Un element distinctiv este includerea unor strategii concrete pentru primele 100 de zile, oferind un parcurs clar pentru noii membri ai consiliilor școlare.
Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Improving School Board Effectiveness, dar cu o abordare mai centrată pe parteneriatul strategic și pe alinierea culturală dintre lideri, față de accentul pus pe politici și priorități de district din lucrarea menționată. În timp ce The Future of School Board Governance oferă o perspectivă academică și empirică asupra relevanței consiliilor, lucrarea de față, publicată de Corwin, este un instrument de lucru direct, menit să fie utilizat simultan de toți actorii implicați în managementul educațional.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1544344333
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru administratorii școlari și membrii consiliilor de administrație care doresc să depășească blocajele administrative. Cititorul câștigă un model operațional clar pentru guvernarea colaborativă, transformând consiliul școlar dintr-o entitate pasivă într-un motor de schimbare. Este un ghid practic care oferă limbajul și structura necesare pentru a construi o viziune comună, punând succesul elevilor în centrul fiecărei decizii politice.
Despre autor
Davis W. Campbell este un expert recunoscut în guvernarea educațională, cu o experiență vastă în consilierea districtelor școlare pentru eficientizarea proceselor decizionale. Michael Fullan este un autor de renume mondial și profesor emerit la Universitatea din Toronto, cunoscut pentru cercetările sale asupra reformei sistemelor de învățământ și a leadershipului educațional. Împreună, cei doi combină expertiza practică în politici publice cu o înțelegere profundă a dinamicii schimbării, oferind în The Governance Core o sinteză valoroasă pentru managementul școlar contemporan.
Descriere scurtă
The authors believe that most trustees (board members) want to make a difference in the lives of students, and to improve the district and the system and as a whole. Their vision is of a governance system, school board and superintendent; working together as a cohesive, unified team with a common vision driven by a shared moral imperative. This is a dynamic, powerful role for school boards.
?Education cannot be expected to solve all of our social ills, but it is increasingly clear that it is the one social institution that has the potential to make a major difference for humanity in a troubled world.
While it has often been shown that districts and boards don’t have close working relationships, this book takes a different view. We go to the core, basic foundation of understanding local efficacy: the mindset of high performing trustees and superintendents carrying out the critical function of governance. We believe that school boards are vastly underutilized at precisely the time when they are most needed. We hold another fundamental premise which we will position in the course of this book: the vast majority of school board members want to improve the public education system.
Finally, decisions are made within a political context. Our main goal in this book is to spell out what good governance consists of at the local district level so that well-intended politics can combine with the governance core to produce education results never before seen.
Recenzii
Brilliant and utterly compelling! I have sat in boardrooms for 46 years governing education institutions, hospitals, and universities. It’s as if Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan were looking over my shoulder! The Governance Core captures the essence of effective governance in complex times. This book challenges us to focus on and achieve a higher moral purpose. Campbell and Fullan move beyond what governance is and explore how great leaders should govern.
Governance, school boards, and superintendents are on the front line of meeting the challenges facing education in the 21st century. The Governance Core by Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan captures not only the nature of the challenges but also the characteristics of highly successful school board trustees and superintendents working together. The Governance Core goes deeply into the heart of effective governance. Incorporate these ideas, and you will become much more effective as governance leaders—and your students, parents and educators will benefit immensely.
A treasure of a book, chock-full of guidance from the strategic to the pragmatic. I will refer to The Governance Core regularly as our board and principal work together in the service of the scholars and families in our school community. Whether you’re a district leader or a principal, on a district school board, charter board, or local school council, you will find insights and tools to deepen your understanding and improve your practice of effective governance. Our nation’s children deserve no less.
Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan do a masterful job of explaining how public school boards and superintendents working well together, with a shared moral imperative, can be a driving force for improvement in student learning as well as for society as a whole. This exquisite new book,
The Governance Core, beautifully explains why this is true and how to achieve it.
Simultaneously visionary and pragmatic,
The Governance Core provides a comprehensive, action-oriented blueprint for designing an effective governance system focused squarely on what matters: student learning. Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan demonstrate how the right approach to governance can make the critical difference in achieving learning for all students. This new book is a powerful, persuasive must-read not only for superintendents and school board members but also for all of us in nonprofits and public agencies who share a commitment to students’ succeeding in school and beyond.
Good governance is a skill, a discipline, and a commitment. Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan reveal new understandings and important lessons about governing public school systems for healthier communities. They make the compelling case that effective governance in these uncertain times is an essential driver for a better democracy. A must-read for all new and veteran board members and superintendents.
Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan have provided great insights on the governance core in this inspiring book. I recommend that trustees and superintendents read this book together—and act on the key messages.
Cuprins
Foreword by John Malloy
Introduction: Politics, Governance, and System Improvement
Unity of Purpose: Driven by a Shared Moral Imperative
Politics, Governance, and System Improvement
How This Book Is Structured
Shift to Positive Drivers
Concluding Comments
PART I: MINDSETS FOR EFFICACY
Chapter 1. Moral Imperative and the Governance Core
The Nature of Governance
A Fundamental Choice
Five Major Themes of Good Governance
The Governance Core
Concluding Comments
Chapter 2. Trustee Governance Mindset
Systems Thinking
Strategic Focus
Deep Learning
Manner
Concluding Comments
Chapter 3. Superintendent Governance Mindset
Typical Governance Styles
Examples of Purposeful Superintendent Support for Governance
What These Superintendents Have in Common
Supporting a Trustee Governance Mindset
Concluding Comments
Chapter 4. Welcoming New Trustees
The First 100 Days: What the Board Should Do
The First 100 Days: What New Trustees Should Do
Concluding Comments
PART II: GOVERNING FOR EFFICACY
Chapter 5. Governing With Coherence
Coherence
Coherence Making
Coherence in Perspective
Distractions and Challenges to Coherence
Concluding Comments
Chapter 6. Governance Culture
Processes That Develop Governance Infrastructure
Concluding Comments
Chapter 7. The Governance Job: Systems Thinking and Strategic Action
Setting Strategic Direction
Policy Direction and Approval
Stewardship and Support
Oversight and Accountability
Community Leadership Throughout
Concluding Comments
Chapter 8. Governance Tools
Discussion Meetings
Governance Handbooks
Board Self-Evaluations
Continuing Board Education
Concluding Comments
PART III: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD
Chapter 9. Rising to the Occasion
All Rise
Appendix I: Template for Creating Board Protocols
Appendix II: Three Comparisons of Effective Governance Principles
References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Notă biografică
Campbell has a deep and broad background in public education. He served for 12 years in the California Department of Education, serving six of those years as Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction in charge of all education programs. In 1988, he was appointed Executive Director of the California School Boards Association, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 2001. He also served as an elected trustee on the Yolo County Board of Education.
Campbell maintains an active consulting practice in effective governance in education as well as public and nonprofit agencies at both the state and international level. In California, in addition to trainings and workshops with school districts, most recently he conducted numerous workshops with nonprofit organizations as well as training sessions with cities, counties, and special districts. Campbell¿s international governance work includes board support for the American School of Madrid (15 years), the American School of Barcelona, the American School of Paris, the American Cooperative School, Tunis, Tunisia, the American International School of Egypt, and effective governance workshops in Lisbon, Portugal, and Rome, and Milan, Italy.