This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and
proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on
improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools
and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a
vision towards 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 a safe environment for staff to
express their views. While providing an understanding of school as an
organization, 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.
