Training for Quality School-Based Decision Making

Thomas Valesky is currently professor and former program leader for the Department of Educational Leadership at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dianne D. Horgan is Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Arizona, a professor in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Department of Communication, and a licensed psychologist in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Carol Etheridge Caughey is associate professor emeritius, in the Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, College of Education at the University of Memphis. Dennie L. Smith is Chair and Professor at the University of Memphis in the Instruction and Curriculum Leadership Department.

The authors...take the reader through all the necessary steps to reach a quality decision and tie specific skills into each step.

• Chapter 1. The TTS ModelChapter 2. Problems Within and Outside of the Teams' DomainChapter 3. Clarifying the Question: Finding the Appropriate Level for DiscussionChapter 4. Seeking Additional InformationChapter 5. Acceptance of Your DecisionChapter 6 Appendix A: Sample School District PolicyChapter 7 Appendix B: List of Helpful World Wide Web Sites for Research and InformationChapter 8 Suggested Readings Related to Participative Decision Making in SchoolsChapter 9 General Bibliography for Empowerment, School-Based Decision Making, and Total Quality ManagementChapter 10 IndexChapter 11 About the Authors