Creating great schools
Subtitle: six critical systems at the heart of educational innovation
By: Phillip C. Schlechty.
Series: Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2005
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Description: "In Creating Great Schools, Phillip C. Schlechty - one of the nation's best-known experts on school leadership and change - offers a hands-on primer that will help arm school leaders with the tools they need to buck the system from within. Creating Great Schools shows educational leaders how they can sustain continuous innovation and improvement in order to create truly great schools."

"The book is filled with effective strategies and offers guidelines for introducing the "disruptive innovations" that are necessary to change the fundamental norms of an educational organization and truly revitalize a school. He also offers suggestions for working through the thorny issues that arise from the efforts to introduce new norms and provides school leaders with valuable insights into the critical rules, roles, and relationships in schools."--Jacket.