1. ISSUES IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

2. Centralization vs. Decentralization
Practicality of site-based management: Let principals manage their schools
Principals’ autonomy (Example: Cluster school implementation)
Power/autonomy and accountability
Site-based management: Rhetoric vs. reality
Site-based management and school achievement?
Distributed leadership in schools

3. School Safety Accountability Issue
Emergency management
Risk management
Litigation issues
Sexual harassment of staff and students
School-wide prevention plan
Safe and drug-free and violence-free schools
Schooling crossings and traffic issues
School Climate/culture and productivity

4. Collaboration and Partnerships
Definition of school partnerships
Understanding of the communities they serve
Respond to their needs and interests
School family partnership
Barriers to school family/community/business partnerships
Collaboration with employers

5. Consumers of Research vs. Researchers
Should teachers and administrators continue to be consumer of research
Benefits of action research
Using research findings to inform professional practices
School leaders to facilitate research among teachers/educators

6. Inclusive vs. Exclusive Approach
Management of special education – The concept of inclusion
Streaming practices in schools:
Advantages and disadvantages from different perspectives (Lead to self-fulfilling prophecy)
Collaborative leadership structure – participative decision making

7. Educational Reforms: Mandatory Change vs. Change from Within
Top down change initiatives/programs
Why did most school reforms fail?
Management of school-based change
School policy and change
Benchmarking, standardizing, key performance indicators/index and etc. – Lead to more rigorous academic standards
Guiding reforms through assessment and data analysis
Sustaining change: Factors affecting it!

8. Gender Issues in Management
Break the glass ceiling: Discrimination
Teachers touching children: Sexual harassment
Boys are doing poorly in schools
Mrs. Brown vs. The lady principal
Feminism in the teaching profession
Leadership among female leaders

9. Valued-ends Leadership
Principals providing moral leadership
Principals as educators
Principals as community builders – Creating community of learning within schools
The concept of ‘No Child Left Behind NCLB)
Creating school that serve moral purposes
School leaders to educational leaders
Charismatic school leaders
Leading by heart

10. Principalship Principal preparation
Professional qualifications for headship
Socialization processes for early headship/induction programs
Middle leadership in schools
Developing school leaders through mentoring