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National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1994
This booklet contains the stories of six teachers who discuss, step by step, how they each handled a specific restructuring challenge in their schools. They describe what strategies worked and what did not, and provide diagrams and checklists to help other teachers. Chapter 1 describes the implementation of a collaborative school-based…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, School Based Management
Lieberman, Ann, Ed. – 1990
This collection of 12 essays examines the school's need to establish a collaborative environment as a precondition for its own development. The following chapters explore the necessary shift in schools from a bureaucratic to a professional mode: (1) "Recanting Bureaucracy: A Democratic Structure for Leadership in Schools" (D. L. Clarke and J. M.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change
Astuto, Terry A., Ed. – 1993
This document contains six chapters that examine the role of teacher leadership in the school-restructuring process. Chapter 1, "When--Teachers Lead" (Bruce S. Cooper), provides a general introduction to the content and purpose of the monograph. Chapter 2, "When--Teachers Share School-Level Decision-Making" (Sharon Conley and Justo Robles),…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
Jenlink, Patrick, Ed. – 1995
Given the current social and economic changes, American education must change in order to connect students to the future. This book is comprised of a collection of essays on the topic of systemic change in education. The book focuses on reform for the future by bringing together systems theory with detailed examples of strategies and cases that…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Darling-Hammond, Linda; And Others – 1992
This monograph examines issues that will shape teacher education programs in the future. Following a foreword by Robert M. McClure, the monograph is organized into three chapters. The first, "Perestroika and Professionalism: The Case for Restructuring Teacher Preparation" (Linda Darling-Hammond), focuses on changes wrought by school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educationally Disadvantaged
Jorgensen, Cheryl M.; Schuh, Mary C.; Nisbet, Jan – Brookes Publishing Company, 2005
Inclusion facilitators are educators who do more than teach children with disabilities--they advocate for change in schools and communities, sparking a passion for inclusion in teachers, administrators, and families and giving them the practical guidance they need to make it work. This is an essential new role in today's schools, and this guide…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Personality, Educational Change, Disabilities