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  title info:
    title: Implementing site-based decision making
    sub title: one secondary principal's challenge
  name:
    name part: Schimkowitsch, Larry Dean.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 126 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: When Texas joined the wave of school reform and mandated
  abstract: site-based management in 1991 (House Bill 2885), it
  abstract: literally turned the school business upside down, presenting
  abstract: many challenges for those involved in implementing site-
  abstract: based management. No one faced a bigger challenge than the
  abstract: school principal, whose importance was cited by Cohen (1986)
  abstract: when he stated his five correlates for effective schools,
  abstract: one correlate being, "Strong administrative leadership by
  abstract: the school principal, especially in regard to instructional
  abstract: matters" (pp. 13-15). The study of the challenges facing a
  abstract: principal implementing site-based management is one that is
  abstract: chock full of subtleties, subtleties that can only be
  abstract: discovered by using a naturalistic paradigm as opposed to a
  abstract: positivistic paradigm. The research question in this study
  abstract: was: What are the challenges the principal at Falls High
  abstract: School faces in implementing site-based decision making and
  abstract: how does he handle them? This research used the naturalistic
  abstract: inquiry process of Lincoln and Guba (1985) to chronicle the
  abstract: challenges the principal of Falls High School faced in
  abstract: implementing site-based management. Data were gathered from
  abstract: both structured and unstructured interviews administered by
  abstract: a participant observer. This information was unitized and
  abstract: transferred to index cards. From this, a case study was
  abstract: developed. The study found that the principal's first
  abstract: challenge was to adapt his management style to site-based
  abstract: management. Although that did not prove to be a problem for
  abstract: the principal in this study, other challenges arose. A
  abstract: primary challenge for the principal was to lead teachers who
  abstract: had no training in how to wield power. The lack of training
  abstract: for all concerned, including the principal, proved to be a
  abstract: major stumbling block in the implementation of site-based
  abstract: management. Another stumbling block was the principal having
  abstract: to deal with teachers who wanted to make changes that the
  abstract: superintendent did not want to go into effect. In summary,
  abstract: even though site-based management gave power to teachers,
  abstract: teachers are not automatically ready to assume that power.
  abstract: Also, the school district did a woeful job of preparing for
  abstract: the implementation of site-based management.
  note: by Larry Dean, Schimkowitsch.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Administration".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 113-118.
  note: Ed. D. Texas A&M University 1996.
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
  identifier: 96-34696 UMI
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 970514
    record change date: 20190325093302.0
    record identifier: in00001355375