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Article: Organizational health: using an assessment tool to diagnose internal conditions and relationships before writing a prescription.
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- School Administrator
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- May 1, 2003
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When I was hired seven years ago as superintendent of a suburban Chicago school district, the board made it abundantly clear that one of my top priorities was to improve implementation of the district's strategic plan. My charge was to get Community Consolidated School District 146 "to the next level."
I spent the first several months reading everything I could find about the district and its strategic plan, Education 2000. I talked to teachers, principals, parents and community members in this 2,500-student pre-K through 8th-grade district. I witnessed pockets of innovation and random acts of implementation, but no overall commitment to the mission and vision ...