1st Edition

Influencing High Student Achievement through School Culture and Climate A Quantitative Approach to Organizational Health-Based Leadership

By Steven Busch, Julie Fernandez Copyright 2019
    162 Pages
    by Routledge

    162 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book demonstrates how the school principal’s consideration of culture and climate of the school can significantly improve and sustain student achievement over time. Highlighting an innovative approach to organizational health and student achievement, this volume uses inferential statistical data analysis to quantify the way school leaders can strategically interact within school culture and systems to improve student achievement. A cutting-edge analysis of the importance of school climate, this book draws on current research from the Organizational Health Inventory diagnostic framework to provide data-based conceptual models of the relation between culture and leadership.

    Chapter 1: Leadership Focus on School Climate



    Chapter 2: Linking Culture, Climate, and Leadership



    Chapter 3: Organizational Health Model –Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness



    Chapter 4: Leadership Strategies for Goal Focus



    Chapter 5: Leadership Strategies for Adaptation



    Chapter 6: Leadership Strategies for Cohesiveness



    Chapter 7: Making Sustainable Change Happen

    Biography

    Steven D. Busch is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Houston Baptist University, USA.



    Julie Fernandez is an Associate Professor Educational Leadership and Counseling and Dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Houston Baptist University, USA.