Managementul organizatiei scolare. Proiectul de dezvoltare institutionala (PDI)

This book is a guide to the strategic plan of a school. In Romania people call this plan the Institutional Development Project, or PDI. The book walks through the whole plan from start to end. It shows how to plan it and put it to work. It also shows how to review it and make it better.

The book has three parts, and you can read each one alone. Each part has its own message. Together they trace a path a school might take. The path starts with normal daily work. Next it leads to real levels of output. Then it goes on to the best a school can do.

The author wrote it for people who work in schools below college level. Its readers are teachers, school heads and those who check on schools. It also helps the experts who judge if a school may open and run. Staff at the Ministry of Education can use it as well. It is a handbook for those who want to become school heads. Heads in post and school board members can use it too.

The author is Remus China. He teaches at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in Bucharest. His post is in the Faculty of Educational Sciences. He teaches how to run good schools and keep their quality high. He earned his doctorate in educational sciences in 2012. It came from the University of Bucharest. It looked at ways to lift the quality of schools through set rules for how to run them. He trained in physics and finished his degree in 1982. Since then he has worked only in schools. He has taught physics and has been a school head. He has also led the team that checks on schools in his area. He has been an expert with ARACIP. He has held posts at the Ministry of Education. This is his third book on quality in schools.