背景： 香港教育局在2002/ 2003年開始在小學設置課程統籌主任職位，專職協助校長領導教師，推行課程改革。這計劃是華人社會乃至世界大部份國家的創舉。 目的： 本文以香港小學課程統籌主任為例，回顧課程領導在香港小學的發展，探析他們對學校發展和落實課程改革的影響、面對的困難和挑戰、及成功的經驗，並提出未來的發展方向。 評論： 課程統籌主任表示在執行職責時要扮演同儕、輔導員、倡導者、楷模和領導者等多種角色。研究進一步發現妨礙課程統籌主任工作的因素，可分為組織因素、校長和校內其他教師的支持與合作、學校整體推行改革的準備和個人限制。 總結：課程統籌主任在香港課程改革過程中發揮的作用漸見成效，更重要的是這計劃帶動了校內教師領導的發展，對學校整體發展有積極作用。不少研究都指出小學課程統籌主在履行職責時會遇到很多困難和挑戰，如何協助新任的小學課程統籌主任成功過渡為「合格」的課程領導，是急需解決的課題。文章總結了一些成功的條件，可以讓課程統籌主任和校長參考。
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在推行教育改革的環境中，學校改善是一個經常被討論的課題；本文旨在分享一所學校優化行政的歷程。這所學校因應「外評報告」的建議，制定了提昇中層人員為發展策略之一；該校透過參與香港初等教育研究學會主辦的「優化小學學校行政」計劃，引入專業支援，進行適切的校本培訓及以行動學習方法去檢視學校的行政和溝通。小組同工在過程中以改善校務的學習心態，提高了對學校的歸屬感和得到專業成長。本文以敘事方式去回顧這個行動學習的經歷，並透過整理相關文獻、計劃資料和深度訪談，讓讀者了解個案的實踐知識。
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近年來，「證據為本」的學校自我評鑑（自評）成為世界潮流。學校自評機制意謂學校可自行評鑑其教育質素，據之不斷自我改進，以期自我完善。香港教育當局近年也把過往由官方主導的視學方式改變為學校自評與外評機制，同時把學校教育目標轉化成為質素「表現指標」，用意是為學校提供一個公平基礎進行自評和與他校比較，激發學校持續進取和履行「問責」精神。研究者藉由參與觀察的研究方式，探究一次學校外評經驗，並透過觀察結果，分析此類學校評鑑措施與課程改革實施的關係，反思該政策能否促成優質教育目標的達成，最後提出建議。
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The increasing demand on school principals to raise student achievement in the accountability era has brought the attention of researchers back from transformational leadership to instructional leadership. Traditionally, these two leadership types have been considered separately in the literature. While researchers often advocate one type in favour of the other, this study argues that both types are important to schools and attempts to simultaneously examine their influence on school effectiveness. Based on the empirical data collected from 48 Hong Kong secondary schools, the results have shown that the schools with stronger orientation towards both instructional leadership and transformational leadership outperformed the schools with weaker inclination on both leadership styles. Discussion in the Hong Kong context is provided.

The consultation document,"Quality School Education: Ways to Improve Performance," issued in 1996 by the Task Group on School Quality and School Funding, reveals certain assumptions about school quality that merit further analysis. The document is analyzed by identifying these assumptions and comparing them to the recommendations of W. Edwards Deming, a seminal figure in the global quality movement. The report is underpinned by ideas about goals and targets, the association of school funding with performance, competition, and recasting roles and redrawing relationships among various figures and elements found in Hong Kong schools and related organizations. From the Deming perspective, implementation of the ideas in the Task Group document will fail to improve the quality of education in Hong Kong. It is more likely, rather, that their implementation will result in a lower level of quality.

Currently, there are rigorous school-improvement interventions which have one goal in commonVthe improvement of instruction and student learning in schools. New system of accountability expects schools to produce specific improvements in a self-assessment and evaluation basis. A mechanism of school planning prioritizing and reporting is in place to ensure that the focus is on activities directly related to student achievement and improvement strategies. However, normative structures inside schools, such as the privacy of classroom practice and the culture of teaching are often determining factors not only in the implementation of policy, but, more importantly, in the school's overall effectiveness in fostering children's learning. It will be of concern to develop teachers to generate and focus attention on information relevant to teaching and learning, motivate individuals and schools to use that information and expend effort to improve practice, and build the knowledge base necessary for interpreting and applying new information to improve practice. This study aims to explore the views and practices of school improvement among pre-school teachers in Hong Kong, and to examine emergent visions and innovations adopted in practices in the process of school-based self-assessment. Of particular interest is a close-up study of the context in which teachers are expected to learn, and the impact of school support incentives on teachers' work in delivering high quality ECE. A combined quantitative and qualitative methodology will be applied, and the researchers and participants will work collaboratively over 30 months to collect data on school improvement. This action research process will involve 4 cycles of data collection and analysis; the focus of the enquiry will be the strategic plans and activities undertaken by ten schools in implementing self-assessment and school improvement plans.