Managing School Districts for High Performance : Cases in Public Education Leadership

by Childress, Stacey; Elmore, Richard F.; Grossman, Allen; Johnson, Susan Moore

• ISBN13: 9781891792755
• ISBN10: 189179275X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-06
• Publisher: Harvard Educational Pub Group

Table of Contents

Learning by the Case Method: A Note for Education Administrators	p. 7
Making Coherence Concrete
Taco Bell, Inc. (1983-1994)	p. 15
Bristol City Schools (BCS)	p. 31
Note on the PELP Coherence Framework	p. 43
Pursuing Educational Equity at San Francisco Unified School District	p. 55
Finding and Supporting Personnel
Southwest Airlines: Using Human Resources for Competitive Advantage (A)	p. 81
Reinventing Human Resources at the School District of Philadelphia	p. 103
Staffing the Boston Public Schools	p. 133
Building a High-Performing Organization
NYPD New	p. 163
Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A)	p. 189
Using Data to Improve Instruction at the Mason School	p. 215
Compensation Reform at Denver Public Schools	p. 241
Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District	p. 269
Managing Schools across Differences
Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights	p. 293
Managing the Chicago Public Schools	p. 321
The STAR Schools Initiative at the San Francisco Unified School District	p. 349
Race, Accountability, and the Achievement Gap (A)	p. 371
Race, Accountability, and the Achievement Gap (B)	p. 401
Sustaining High Performance over Time
Meeting New Challenges at the Aldine Independent School District	p. 427
Long Beach Unified School District (A): Change That Leads to Improvement (1992-2002)	p. 453
Long Beach Unified School District (B): Sustaining Improvement during a Leadership Transition (2002-2004)	p. 475
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