Academic Leadership: Enhancing School Effectiveness

271 Pages·2023·2.548 MB·English

by  Marmar Mukhopadhyay

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and
proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving
academic leadership to enhance the effectiveness of schools and discusses
how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision for
improving school effectiveness.
It highlights the role of teachers as academic leaders in the implementation
of policy recommendations at school and classroom levels. It offers methods
and mechanisms for academic leaders to measure the learning of students
for school assessment. The author also discusses how academic leadership
involves creating a vision and mission based on science and research data
for the organisation, inspiring innovation and creative ideas, developing
teamwork, and creating a safe environment for staff to express their views.
While providing an understanding of school as an organisation, the volume
outlines its management functions such as processes and quality of planning,
management of curriculum, learner evaluation, institutional networks, and
human resource management, among others. The volume is a guidebook for
training and capacity building for school-level practitioners and leaders in
education management.
Embedded with real-life cases and episodes, this volume will be of
interest to teachers, students, and practitioners of education, management,
and education management. It will also be useful for academicians,
educationalists, practitioners, management professionals, educational
leaders, and policymakers.
Marmar Mukhopadhyay is Chairman of Educational Technology and
Management Academy, Gurgaon, India. He represents a unique blend of
experience in educational management as a researcher, trainer, institution
builder, and author spread over more than four decades. He completed more
than forty research and consultancy assignments commissioned by agencies like
UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, USAID, British Council, and COL. Marmar
has trained a few thousand heads of academic institutions from India and
more than fifty other countries. He has served in academic leadership positions
(as a head) in two major Indian national institutions and in international
organisations like ICDE and IMAGE. Two of his notable publications include
Total Quality Management in Education, Quality Management in Higher
Education, and Leadership for Institution Building in Education.

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
Enhancing School Effectiveness
Marmar Mukhopadhyay
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ISBN: 978-1-032-15889-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-45348-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-37654-5 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003376545
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In memory of my father
Late Sri Nrisinhaprasad Mukhopadhyay,
Former Headmaster of Udang High School.
At his feet, I learnt the concept and dynamics of School
Effectiveness.
And my mother, Late Srimati Umashashi Mukhopadhyay,
whose care and love have sustained all of us till today.

CONTENTS
List of figures ix
List of tables x
List of boxes xi
Foreword xii
Preface xiv
Abbreviations xvi
1 School Effectiveness: An Introduction 1
2 Understanding Academic Leadership 21
3 Discovering the Leader in You 35
4 School-Based Educational Policy Implementation
Model (SEPIM) 51
5 Understanding School as an Organisation 69
6 Developing School as a Learning Organisation 82
7 Leading Professional Learning 97
8 Nurturing and Leading the Leaders 114
9 Resource Planning and Management 127
10 Networking for Organisational Learning 141
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CONTENTS
11 Reorienting Administrative Management for School
Effectiveness 156
12 Student Services and Parental Involvement for School
Effectiveness 169
13 School Effectiveness Audit 181
14 Towards Quality Culture and Graduation in Leadership 198
References 213
Index 245
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FIGURES
1.1 Self-fulfilment Model of School Effectiveness 11
2.1 Academic Leaders Focus on Academic Management 23
3.1 JOHARI Window: Tool for Rediscovering Yourself 39
3.2 Staff Composition by Commitment and Competence 43
3.3 Leadership Choices Based on Task Maturity and QMI
Complexity 46
3.4 Multilevel Academic Leadership 48
4.1 Educational Policy Process 54
4.2 School-Based Educational Policy Implementation
Model (SEPIM) 58
4.3 Connecting the Four-Dot Learning Model 61
5.1 School Organisation 70
5.2 Systems Approach 75
6.1 Five Disciplines of Learning Organisation 87
7.1 Levels of Professional Learning 98
7.2 Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy 102
8.1 Leadership and Feedback Flows in Leading Leaders 116
10.1 TPDIAE Cycle of School Effectiveness 153
11.1 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 159
11.2 Maslow’s Revised Hierarchy of Needs 159
11.3 Administrative Management Support for Academic
Management 162
12.1 School Student Services: Conceptual Framework 173
13.1 360° Audit of School Effectiveness 191
13.2 PDSA or Deming Cycle 192
14.1 School Effectiveness as Function of School Environment 203
14.2 Four Categories of School Heads 207
14.3 School Leadership Configuration 208
14.4 Graduating in Leadership 209
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