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Tyo, John – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1979
Educators from Fullerton Union High School District, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Capistrano Unified School District, and Huntington Beach Union High School District describe their efforts toward developing competency-based curriculum to meet state mandates. (SJL)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
Swartz, George A. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1978
In 1976, the Shasta County Schools management staff devised a system to identify the factors of responsibility in management positions and to assign position titles and salaries on this basis. Factors were identified in the areas of program management, budget, and personnel supervision and weighted to rank staff positions. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Responsibility, County School Districts, Factor Analysis
Nash, Louis P. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1979
Presented are brief descriptions and comments by administrators of some California arts programs on producing a quality arts program inexpensively. Topics discussed are: initiating a Comprehensive Arts program, the use of CETA artists-in-residence, curriculum development, and the coordination of a high school fine arts program. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Art Education, Artists, Curriculum Development
Ehrgott, Richard H. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1979
Noting the changing role of the principal toward instructional supervision, this article suggests several plans by which California schools and districts can put together staff development programs using resources from the state's school improvement legislation, AB 65. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Wells, Barbara; Carr, Larry – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1978
The structure, implementation, and advantages of Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District's decentralized management and budgeting system are described. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Ancillary Services, Budgeting, Decentralization
Castellani, George J. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1978
A framework is presented for district long-range instructional planning which takes into account the financial uncertainty caused by the funding cuts of California's Proposition 13--the Jarvis-Gann initiative of 1978. (SJL)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Instructional Programs
Popham, W. James – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1979
When designing competency based education programs to meet state requirements, California educators would do well to select only a small number of highly significant competencies per basic skill area, for which they can devise on-target instruction and valid competency measures. (SJL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
