Effective School Management

The core mission
In this stage we have to go right back to fundamentals: the starting point is a
definition of the organization’s reason for being. Why does it exist? What is
its central raison d’être or ‘core mission’? It is not as easy to answer this question
as might at first be thought; it is still less easy to get unanimous agreement on
what the answer should be. The reason for being is generally assumed rather
than debated and defined explicitly. It might be, for a school, to

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EFFECTIVE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
(1) educate children; or
(2) prepare children for life, citizenship and work; or
(3) be a lively centre for effective learning and development for the young;
or even
(4) provide rewarding jobs for the staff teaching the children.
There may be several elements in a statement of core mission: if so, the order
of priorities is important.