Auditing Your Educational Strategic Plan: Making a Good Thing Better.Philip Grise's research on educational and community programs in Auditing Your Educational Strategic Plan tries to bridge co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor n. A collaborating or joint author. tr.v. co·au·thored, co·au·thor·ing, co·au·thors To be a collaborating or joint author of: "He and a colleague . . . Roger Kaufman's general discussion of management and the practical strategies that will work in educational settings. The result is only partially successful as illustrated by the book's bibliography of 67 entries. Kaufman contributes 24, while only 4 come from education writers. In 90 pages of text and appendices ap·pen·di·ces n. A plural of appendix. , the authors introduce the basics of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , describe an integrated framework for strategic planning, walk through each step of strategic planning as an audit, and provide a scoring table of each topic raised in the discussion. Many sections are helpful, but multiple passes through the same sequence become tiresome. Selective readers will enjoy using the scoring table to test their understanding of strategic planning. They soon will recognize the authors' preferences from the letter grades they assign to each aspect of the process. District leaders will appreciate the more explicit lists of six critical factors of success and 11 common mistakes to avoid. Less selective readers may be distracted by some management examples and terminology that don't quite make it across the bridge to the educational enterprise. (Auditing Your Educational Strategic Plan: Making a Good Thing Better, by Roger Kaufman and Philip Grise, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. Road, Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , Calif. 91320, 1995, 95 pp., $12.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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