Peculiarities of management of transformation processes in general secondary education institutions
Authors: Chyzhevskyi Boris 
Published: September 2024

The article defines the peculiarities of managing transformation processes in general secondary education institutions during the period of modernization, transformation, positive changes and their continuous, stable, sustainable development. Our reflections are based on the fact that the management of transformation processes in general secondary education institutions is strategic and should be built in the plane of "Study globally – determine the scientific basis – act locally" and is complex and innovative in content. The strategic problem of transformation processes is the management of the spiritual positive energy of transformation and peace. That is why the management of transformation processes at school in modern conditions is viewed through the prism of strategic management and is carried out taking into account the need to ensure the development of participants in the educational process, subject to overcoming the negative consequences of a pandemic, war, environmental disaster, climate "records", crisis and the presence of educational losses, educational gaps, poor performance, illiteracy, knowledge gaps in students and the need to quickly involve internally displaced children and students in the educational process. Determining the features of the management of transformational processes in the field of education and general secondary education institutions is the highest level of the art of management and is provided by strategic thinking, strategic management and covers the theory and practice of training teaching staff, children, students, and parents to the acquisition by schoolchildren of high-quality scientific knowledge, mastery of a scientific worldview on the basis of harmonious development and education, as well as planning, forecasting and organizing the educational process, researching its regularities, developing and applying methods, options, methods, and forms of learning, studying, and self-education of students. It provides for a rational, competent arrangement of available pedagogical staff, effective use of the material and technical base, information resources, determination of strategic priorities, goals and tasks for class leaders, class teachers, teachers, librarians, heads of circles, sections, creative teams, heads of offices, as well as the use of innovative forms and methods of education, forming the sphere of cooperation with state management bodies, scientific institutions, methodical services, educational institutions, public organizations and professing the ideology of pedagogy of cooperation and mutual understanding between the participants of the educational process. Strategic management of transformational processes in institutions of general secondary education, especially in conditions of war, is closely related to educational policy in the country and stems from the needs of a free creative gifted individual, a social human society, a democratic state, an innovative economy of knowledge and the needs of defense, protection, guardianship, compliance with social guarantees. Legislation, normative legal acts set tasks for educational institutions, and the strategy ensures their fulfillment. The strategy of managing transformational processes in institutions of general secondary education depends on the level, state and pace of economic development and on the actual provision of necessary and sufficient funding, security, including social security, of all participants in the educational process. The strategy of managing transformational processes is, as a rule, the same for all schools and its recommendations, the main provisions should be mandatory for all institutions of general secondary education, regardless of status, type, subordination, location and form of ownership. With regard to tactics, strategic management plays a certain role and at the same time takes into account the powers, status and capabilities of the institution of general secondary education and should serve to realize the basic rights and freedoms of participants in the educational process, and the basic right to a spiritual, happy, safe, protected, joyful life in the plane of observance and fulfillment of the main spiritual laws – Love, Forgiveness and worldview and value categories and principles of Peace, Faith, Hope, unity, solidarity, commonwealth.