school management

Running a school

School management is the administration and organization of educational institutions—handling budgets, staffing, facilities, curriculum oversight, and student affairs.

The term covers both the activities themselves and the people who perform them: She's been in school management for twenty years.

School management software helps administrators track attendance, grades, and communications.

Opposites
administrative vs. instructional roles

school managementclassroom teaching

Education in school setting

instruction · pedagogy · teaching practice · teaching · lesson planning

top-down vs. bottom-up control

school managementcommunity control

Residents governing their area

structure vs. autonomy

school managementunschooling

Self-directed home education

educational freedom · self-directed learning · deschooling · open education · homeschooling

Family

school, manage, schools, schooled, schooling, scholar, scholarly, scholarship, scholastic

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G