ABSTRACT
This chapter contains guidelines and illustrations for helping to bring vision to reality. The vision for a school, however determined, must be brought to reality. Since bringing vision to reality may frequently involve changing the existing way of doing things, a model for school management must also contain strategies for the successful management of change. The distinction between 'policy group' and 'programme teams' provides the framework for an approach to school management which is consistent with the generalisations about leadership and the strategies for the successful management of change. The model was the focus of an important initiative in school management in one large school system and seems to have wide application. Brian J. Caldwell and J. M Spinks describe a school policy as a statement of purpose and one or more guidelines as to how that purpose is to be achieved which, taken together, provide a framework for the operation of the school or programme.
