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American schools should be laboratories for modeling democratic concepts. However, our school systems are the antithesis of democratically run organizations. Teaching professionals, students and parents have very little power or genuine influence in decision making. Reframing Decision Making in Education begins by describing the current status of American schools and concludes with a description of the organizational structure, leadership, and decision making practices necessary to make our schools operate in a manner congruent with those democratic principles we espouse as a country.
This book describe a democratic structure and a decision making matrix to help reform leaders begin such an endeavor. Woven through each chapter is a fictional story of Principal Samantha Levy. We see Ms. Levy's struggles as she begins the process of making change in her high school and its impact on those around her.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Way Things Are
Chapter 2: It Doesn't Have to be This Way
Chapter 3: Democratic Principles: Change Happens
Chapter 4: Implications and Applications for our Schools
Chapter 5: Back to the Future
References
About the author
Dr. Perry Rettig has served as a K-8 school teacher, principal, professor, and higher educational administrator his entire professional career. Presently, he serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Piedmont College north of Atlanta, Georgia.
Summary
Reframing Decision Making in Education begins by describing the current status of American schools and concludes with a description of the organizational structure, leadership, and decision making practices necessary to make our schools operate in a manner congruent with those democratic principles we espouse as a country.
