Date Approved
4-10-2003
Embargo Period
5-8-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in School Administration
Department
Educational Services and Leadership
College
College of Education
Advisor
Johnson, Theodore
Subject(s)
School administrators--Training of
Disciplines
Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration
Abstract
Administrative change in education is inevitable. However, successful administrative change is not. Successful administrative change requires Boards of Education and the new leaders they create to think of the administrative change as a process not an isolated act. The newly created leader must clearly and consistently communicate his vision with the shareholders. He must allow the shareholders to question and respond to his vision until together they make a new vision, one which they can all embrace. He must have and effectively convey a transition plan that will bring the shareholders from the past, which they know and accept, across the bridge into the future, which they do not know and may not understand. He must give the shareholders time to grieve for what they had and instill in them a desire to create what they can have. Only when the new administrator understands the need for and facilitates the transition process will there be successful, meaningful change in educational administration.
Recommended Citation
Horner, Dale H., "The effects of administrative change on school environment" (2003). Theses and Dissertations. 1323.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/1323
