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Larson, Elizabeth J. Hunt; Schrankel, Philipp Stephen – 1986
Planning to meet the needs of the future is a critical concern of an Arizona school district. The Mesa Action Planning System (MAPS) provides a framework for community involvement with a 200-member community-based planning committee, selected from constituent groups, and a 12-member steering committee. The planning committee will receive a summary…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Coordination, Decision Making
Download full textSimpkins, Alice M. – 1993
Paine College, a four-year liberal arts institution in Augusta, Georgia, serving mostly black students recently completed an assessment and evaluation plan aimed at all units of the college. The plan was developed by members of the Committee on Institutional Effectiveness and Research over 12 months and focuses on the school's primary mission to…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Vandenberghe, Roland – 1987
The Renewed Primary School project in Belgium is analyzed in this paper in terms of organizational response to a large-scale innovation, which is characterized by its multidimensionality, by the large number of participating schools, and by a complex support structure. Section 2 of the report presents an elaborated description of these…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Rowan, Brian – 1986
To discover whether school districts can develop highly rationalized forms of instructional management, this study gathered data from a telephone survey conducted in the school year 1983-84 of administrators in 30 western districts. The instructional management practices of these districts were then compared with an "ideal type" of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Goren, Paul; Carriedo, Ruben – 1986
This report, part of a long-range plan by San Diego Unified School District, California, investigates the extent to which the multitrack year-round program should be expanded to meet facility and curriculum needs. The report is divided into seven sections. Section 1, an issues statement, is followed by a background section and a section describing…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Facilities
Larson, Elizabeth J. Hunt – 1986
This report describes implementation of a districtwide planning model in the Mesa, Arizona, Public Schools. Figures illustrate planning processes throughout the report. Intended as an implementive framework, the planning system's purposes are to assist decision making about resource allocation, program direction, progress measurement, and district…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning
