School Management Laboratory

LABORATORY:

• Develops leadership practices and management culture in general education based on a person-centered and evidence-based approach.
• Helps principals and management teams become change leaders capable of creating nurturing learning environments.
• Researches, systematizes and helps to implement innovative models of educational organizations.
• Designs concepts, models, educational and developmental programs that motivate and create conditions for each student's progress.

MAP OF LAB’S RESEARCH

• Organizational and management models of schools: campus complexes, pre-professional schools, schools within universities, boarding schools, "hybrid" schools, etc.
• Leadership practices and strategies: technologies and tools of evidence-based solutions, school management through design and educational program management.
• Portrait of the school management body: the administrative team activities, competency models of school leaders.
• Physical educational environment as a tool of educational process management and a factor of well-being of participants of educational relations

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND CONSULTING

• We advise governing bodies, government, non-profit and business organizations in the field of general education on evidence-based management and school leadership issues.
• We support the launch of new schools from context analysis and conceptualization to management team training.
• We help develop strategies, projects, models, educational programs, development programs and support their implementation.
• We examine educational programs: identify points of discrepancy, propose technologies and management tools for development.

 
RESEARCH TOOLS FOR SCHOOL

• Personal profile of a manager

Alan Rowe questionnaire - reveals preferred and avoided styles of managerial decision-making. It will help to form a balanced management team, to see oneself against the background of other managers, to see the peculiarities of different groups of managers of educational organizations in different cities.

• Expertise of educational programs and models of organization

A portfolio of expert-diagnostic tools, including a set of questionnaires for subjects of educational relations, which help school leaders to manage the implementation of educational programs more effectively by assessing their constructive consistency and the degree of actual implementation of the idea.

• School startup: how to launch your school

Technological map for leaders of educational projects, which contains key steps to launch a school - from formulating a vision and concept to the launching and further - the first year of operation.