What type of frame is most commonly used by leaders in my educational system? Why?

We use the structural frame. Schools are structured to ease administration both physically and philosophically. Schools themselves are structures. We then fill these structures with structured groups by age, ability, and interest when possible. We talk about structuring the school day and the structuring of the curricula. We also talk about scaffolding which every structure needs. Education is housed in structures and then we structure what is taught. Employees are structured in their respective roles. Human resources are structured as a pyramid with the superintendent at the top, moving on to associate superintendents, directors, principals, classroom teachers and other certified staff and rounding out with support staff. Actually, this pyramid retracts a bit at the base with the non-certified staff. It can be a little hairy trying to figure out where the school board fits in and how symbiotic the relationship is between the superintendent and the school board. We employ the structure frame because it works well for so many students. It is a huge challenge to educate the individual, so we educate masses of individuals and the structure frame is the only frame with that capacity. Within the public school structure frame, we have the smaller human resource, political and symbolic frames. In our earlier leadership courses, we learned all about the importance of relationship building, understanding who has the power and the importance of school culture. These structures do exist in public education, but only under the umbrella of the structure frame. To continue the medical analogy that Bolman and Deal occasionally reference, structure is the bones that hold the rest of the frames within the educational body. If we soley focused on the human resource frame, we would not be putting children first as would be the case with the political frame. An argument could be made for having the symbolic frame be the dominant one for education because it could handle the children first philosophy. However, it does not have the capacity that the structure frame has for getting people the materials, information, organization and instruction we purport to be necessary for a good public school education.