gestão e administração escolar... das autonomias das escolas... da estrutura das 'organizações'... e do 'poder' dos professores...? precisamos de uma 'revolução [por cá ficamos pela moleza dos retoques de maquilhagem...?]... diz-se lá pelos 'states'...!

"Organizing public schools in the image of industrial corporations or military fleets is a default strategy that reflects the lack of imagination that often permeates our schools and numbs the minds of the children we hope to inspire. Top-down management in which teachers are at the bottom assumes that teaches are interchangeable pieces of a machine when, in fact, really good teachers are often really difficult to replace -- and teachers are engaged in virtually the only work in any school that has any direct impact on the outcomes of the entire enterprise.

Trying to improve schools within the current leadership structure is misguided and probably futile. We have to rethink the internal organization. Teachers need to be at the top of the power structure.

Like the partners in a law firm -- experienced, proven, successful teachers should be collaboratively in charge of the schools at which they teach. 

This is not really a new idea. Educators in alternative settings have created leadership models in which the principal teaches at least one class. Often this is a token effort and doomed to fail. What we need are teacher-leaders with real authority over instruction.

Schools would still need an executive to perform non-instructional administrative work -- a kind of CEO who need not be a teacher or former teacher. Someone with a business background probably makes more sense. Someone who can manage the plant, procure materials and supplies, get the bills paid on-time and file all the paperwork to comply with the education code. And leave teacher/partners to manage instructional matters -- teacher personnel issues, curricular decisions."

aqui.