A quality certification system for school management: lessons learned from the experience of Chile Foundation (2002-2010).

Un sistema de certificacion de la calidad de la gestión escolar: lecciones desde la experiencia de Fundación Chile (2002-2010).

Weinstein, José - Uribe, Mario
Detalles Bibliográficos
2010
gestión
certificación
efectividad
mejora
liderazgo
management
certification
effectiveness
improvement
leadership
Español
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
LIBERI
https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/paginasdeeducacion/article/view/671
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/3867
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Resumen:
Sumario:Abstract. Chile Foundation has developed an innovative initiative in order to certify the quality of management in hundreds of Chilean schools. This article summarizes the lessons learned in this process. Among them the following should be emphasized: the creation of a “quality model” has enabled to have a reference point for improvement; the proposal of an “improvement cycle” has opened practical modes of work; political and technical conditions to reach a national scale have been generated; certification processes had an impact on demonstrable advances in academic results; new information on the most deficient areas of school management has become available for the school system. The main challenges are: to support schools for them to perform the whole improvement cycle, to combine the existence of a voluntary quality certification for the most pro-active schools with an ensuring system that may force all schools to comply with minimum standards.