Designing High Performance Schools: A Practical Guide to Organizational Reengineering

By Francis Duffy

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574440101
• ISBN13: 9781574440102
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the best books I've ever read on school improvement.

Duffy's approach to school improvement is cutting-edge and practical. In this book, he provides detailed guidance on how to plan and carry-out a complete redesign of an entire school system. In particular, I found Chapter 14 to be very interesting and exciting. This is where he describes a new approach to school improvement he calls Knowledge Work Supervision (KWS). KWS, Duffy says, is a process that aims to improve three sets of key school system variables: how the work gets done, the social architecture of the school system, and the system's relationship with its broader environment. Great stuff! I highly recommend this book to anyone who is responsbile for planning and carrying out school improvement on a systemwide basis. Culain Corcoran