Keywords
administrative organizations
school districts
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Abstract
This article describes a research that studies what kind of administrative structure and processes of Puerto Rico Department of Education (DE) best supports teaching and learning in schools. It analyzes the needs of teachers and school directors as shown in the academic literature and the information provided by teachers in this study, as well as their suggestions to propose administrative processes to improve teaching and benefit learning. The results indicate that more than a decentralization of the DE, what is needed are new conceptions about teaching, teachers‘ supervision and directors‘ and districts‘ roles. For example, teachers‘ support should be an ongoing process, differentiated according to teachers‘ talents, and directed to increase teachers‘ autonomy. The administrative task of directors should be simplified and promote a collegiate work with other directors; the district should work more in increasing collaboration among schools and with the community.
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