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The Principal's Leadership Counts!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality School
Margaret A. Byrnes with Jeanne C. Baxter

This is a book for principals, and it should also prove helpful to school leaders in central office or at the building level. The authors wrote it to build knowledge and give support to these principals because their experience shows that the Baldrige criteria, practiced with quality tools and continuous process improvement, produces outstanding results.

Readers will learn more about the Baldrige framework and what it takes to reach school-wide excellence, and gain the skills to start your school on the journey to performance excellence. The chapters focus on the criteria aspects that the authors believe are necessary for everyone’s journey. The ends of chapters 3-7 include a self-assessment checklists to be use as a measurement stick on your journey to performance excellence.

This book is a companion to There is Another Way! Launch a Baldrige-based Quality Classroom and can be helpful as you work with teachers to support their Baldrige efforts.

Benefits:

  • An audio CD of the book is included for convenient listening at home, work, or in between.

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Contents:

  • Chapter 1 Why
  • Chapter 2 Systems and the Baldrige Framework
  • Chapter 3 Visionary Leadership – The Driver of Excellence
  • Chapter 4 Launching Baldrige in Your School
  • Chapter 5 Build and Manage Relationships
  • Chapter 6 Lead the Faculty and Staff
  • Chapter 7 Process Management
  • Chapter 8 From the Trenches
  • Chapter 9 Parting Words of Wisdom
  • Appendix A Thumbnail Sketch - Quality Tools
  • Appendix B An Alternative Teacher Appraisal Instrument
  • Appendix C Balanced Scorecard Process Example
  • Appendix D Survey Writing
  • Glossary
  • Recommended Reading and Websites

220 pages. ISBN 0-87389-679-3. 8 1/2 x 11 Softcover. 2006.
Item: H1273

Member Price: $28.00
List/Forum-Division Price: $35.00

The Principal's Leadership Counts!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality School
Margaret A. Byrnes with Jeanne C. Baxter

Requests for multiple subscriptions should be directed to ASQ Customer Care at 800-248-1946 or 414-272-8575.

About the Author: Margaret A. Byrnes, Managing Associate for Quality Education Associates, is an internationally known expert on continuous improvement, quality practices, and system alignment. She has served as an examiner for the Baldrige Award and in 2002 served as a senior examiner. She has served as a teacher, counselor, and administrator with training and coaching experience in schools across the nation. Co-author of The Quality Teacher and Quality Fusion, she has also written a children’s introductory book on quality, Dr. Deming and His Amazing Quality Idea.

Jeanne C. Baxter, Professor Emeritus of Leadership Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, is currently an examiner for the State of Wisconsin’s Forward Award, based on the Baldrige criteria. She is a recognized expert on leadership, school-centered decision making, team building, and business-school partnerships. Co-author of Leadership Through Collaboration: Alternatives to the Hierarchy, she served as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent in Illinois before joining Northeastern and chairing the Department of Leadership.

 
There is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom
Margaret A. Byrnes with Jeanne C. Baxter

This training guide represents a way to use the Baldrige criteria to improve classroom systems. It is designed for classroom teachers at all levels, as well as teachers in training. Included are examples from different regions of the country, different educational levels, and a variety of classes, with the hope that readers will be able to relate their own situation to those described.

The various tools are embedded ‘just-in-time’ in the text: explained and applied right where they are mentioned. Also included is a Tools Selection Chart to help readers refer immediately to the tools' instructions for each activity. The book's approach is practical, with the many activities having already been tested and improved in the authors' numerous training sessions with real teachers. It is not a book to be read and put on a shelf...it is intended for ‘doers’!

With a foreword by Robert A. McKanna, Superintendent of Schools for Community Consolidated School District 15 in Palatine, Illinois, 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipient.

Benefits:

  • The CD-ROM included contains templates for all the tools and activities discussed in the book.


imagePreview a sample chapter from this book along with the full table of contents by clicking here.

You will need Adobe Acrobat to view this pdf file.


Contents:

  • Chapter 1 – Quality and the Baldrige Framework
  • Chapter 2 – Create a Quality Classroom System for Success
  • Chapter 3 – Management by Fact
  • Chapter 4 – Plan for Quality in Key Classroom Processes
  • Chapter 5 – Make Mid-Course Corrections to Instructional Processes
  • Chapter 6 – Motivate Students to do High Performance Work
  • Chapter 7 – Energize Students, Get Results, and Celebrate
  • Chapter 8 – Summary
  • Appendix A - Examples of Student and Stakeholder Feedback Instruments
  • Appendix B - Partial Examples of District Expectations
  • Appendix C - Student Data and Goal Setting Books
  • Appendix D – Templates
  • Glossary
  • Recommended Reading

312 pages. ISBN 0-87389-653-X. 8 1/2 x 11 Softcover. 2005.

Item: H1249

Member Price: $28.00
List/Forum-Division Price: $35.00

There is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom
Margaret A. Byrnes with Jeanne C. Baxter

Requests for multiple subscriptions should be directed to ASQ Customer Care at 800-248-1946 or 414-272-8575.

About the Author: Margaret A. Byrnes, Managing Associate for Quality Education Associates, is an internationally known expert on continuous improvement, quality practices, and system alignment. She has served as an examiner for the Baldrige Award and in 2002 served as a senior examiner. She has served as a teacher, counselor, and administrator with training and coaching experience in schools across the nation. Co-author of The Quality Teacher and Quality Fusion, she has also written a children’s introductory book on quality, Dr. Deming and His Amazing Quality Idea.

Jeanne C. Baxter, Professor Emeritus of Leadership Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, is currently an examiner for the State of Wisconsin’s Forward Award, based on the Baldrige criteria. She is a recognized expert on leadership, school-centered decision making, team building, and business-school partnerships. Co-author of Leadership Through Collaboration: Alternatives to the Hierarchy, she served as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent in Illinois before joining Northeastern and chairing the Department of Leadership.

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