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Download full textNew Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1985
This sourcebook, prepared to assist New Jersey urban school principals and administrators, presents research findings and describes exemplary programs related to the Urban Initiative, a school improvement project of the New Jersey Department of Education. The source book consists of three major sections. Section 1 reviews effective schools…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement
Lezotte, Lawrence W.; Jacoby, Barbara C. – 1990
This guidebook is designed to help the individual school faculty, staff, and administration create a school plan. Five features critical to a successful school-improvement plan include: support by research findings; a focus on student achievement; attention to issues of quality and equity; collaboration; and an ongoing and self-renewing process.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Cole, Michael, Ed.; Griffin, Peg, Ed. – 1987
This book summarizes research on the various ways that students' cultural backgrounds and innate ways of learning affect academic achievement. It also offers descriptions and recommendations for improving science and mathematics education for minorities and women, based on successful programs, that take these differences into account. The focus is…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1983
To assist in local school improvement, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) has developed an approach in which teams of local educational leaders are made aware of the results of effective schooling research and are trained in the processes of change and improvement. Research reviews have shown specific elements of schooling at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum
Townsend, David – 1987
This monograph focuses on the implementation process that has been a concern of school jurisdictions since the teacher evaluation policy became mandatory in Alberta, Canada, in 1985. Research has shown that school systems are adept at developing written policy but much less successful at putting that policy into effective operation. This overview…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Wallace, Richard C., Jr. – 1982
School administrators in the 1980's must learn to provide stronger instructional leadership to improve student achievement and restore public confidence in education. School improvement will occur, however, only as a result of changes in attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Only when teachers have worked out their own concerns regarding a given…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Behavior Change
