Planting New Schools
Quick Info
- Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
- Course code: EDU570
- Credit points: 10
- Subject coordinator: Stephen Fyson
Prerequisites
The following courses are prerequisites:
Awards offering Planting New Schools
This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:
Unit Content
Outcomes
- Reflect critically on the ways in which contemporary leadership theory and research, and the strategic need of the sector, informs leadership practices for planting, expansion, and extension of schools;
- Explain the importance of strategically identifying and managing stakeholder skills, inventories, needs and expectations as an educational leader in Christian schools;
- Assess the role of educational policies, procedures, and management information systems for strategically planting, expansion, and extension of schools;
- Formulate and defend a vision for planting and/or extending and/or an expansion of schools, with the appropriate supporting education business plan;
- Critically argue how educational leaders can develop high-performance, innovative, responsive organisational forms of Christian integrity, through serving others while involved in extension and expansion of schools.
Subject Content
- The nature of independent faith-based schools: the need for sustained development
- Understanding the roles and responsibilities of faith-based school principals and leaders: opportunities for planting, development, extension, and expansion of schools
- Going somewhere: Visionary entrepreneurship for development
- Compliance for planting, expansion, and extensions of schools: educational policies, procedures, and management information systems, and their stakeholders
- Developing an education business plan, including faith-based mission and vision, risk assessment, marketing, student enrolment, and revenue streams for development
- Keeping a heart of service while leading and developing an extended or new school community.
- Fellowship and collaboration: working with educational stakeholders for planting, extension, and expansion of schools; Case studies
- Engaging with your community: community governance and balancing sector strategy and individual community strategic needs; Case studies
- Identifying and developing your team in the context of planting, extension, and expansion of schools; Case studies
- School Turnarounds: mission, education and business; Case Studies
- School Start-Ups: current issues; Case Studies
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face to Face (onsite)
- Distance/E-learning (online)
- Intensive (One week: 7 hours per day for 5 days = 35 class hours + approx 85 hours out of class time for research, writing, exam preparation and execution, ancillary activities associated with completion of assigned tasks)
Assessment Methods
- Leadership Journal (10%)
- Book Review (20%)
- Business Plan & Strategy (30%)
- Personal Research Project (40%)
Prescribed Text
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