Strategic leadership for schools : creating and sustaining productive change / John J. Mauriel ; in collaboration with B. Dean Bowles and Barbara Benedict Bunker.
Part one: Developing an effective strategy -- Strategic leadership: A framework for orchestrating successful change efforts -- Major challenges facing schools today -- Recognizing opportunities and threats -- Assessing the school district's capabilities and limitations -- Discovering what constituencies want from schools -- Formulating a strategic plan -- Part two: Implementing the strategy -- Gaining support for change: The politics of strategic leadership -- Developing a marketing plan -- Instructional leadership: Providing quality educational services -- Part three: Evaluating and revising the strategy -- Leading school systems through transitions -- Accountability: Determining how much performance is improving -- Leading schools into the future: Managing the ongoing process of strategic change.