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How to Make Things Better. 1985 AASA Small School District Administrators' Conference Report (Osage Beach, Missouri, July 12-14, 1985).
Small School District Administrators, 1985
"Making good things better" was the theme of the 1985 AASA Small School District Administrators' Conference. The keynote speaker listed four efforts school leadership should take: encouraging people to change, accelerating the growth of people, setting organizational goals, and continuing personal growth. A full day of the conference focused on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Improving Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Small Schools. Proceedings of the Annual Alaska Small Schools Conference (5th, Anchorage, Alaska, October 23-25, 1985).
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Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1985
Key points of presentations are captured in this report of a conference which addressed issues of concern to educators in Alaska's small schools. A total of 119 presentations are briefly summarized. Contents are organized under five headings: effective leadership strategies, curriculum and instruction, computers and telecommunication, assessment,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Curriculum Development
Innovative Rural Preservice & Inservice Training Programs. [Proceedings of the] Annual National Rural Teacher Education Conference (1st, Bellingham, Washington, October 9-11, 1985).
Schwartz, Phebe, Comp. – 1985
Conference papers and various related materials are collected in this volume compiled in conjunction with the National Rural Teacher Education Conference. The bulk of the document consists of papers presented on the 12 major topics of the conference: (1) accreditation and endorsement standards versus the needs of rural education; (2) innovative…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Innovative Programs, Research & Technologies in Rural Education. Exposition 86. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Rural & Small Schools Consortium (Bellingham, Washington, October 7-10, 1986).
Western Washington Univ., Bellingham. National Rural Development Inst. – 1986
Texts of speeches delivered before general sessions and abstracts of papers presented in concurrent sessions are collected in this document which also contains the conference program, a directory of presenters, and the 13 conference cosponsors' recommendations for enhancing the quality of rural and small school education. The six addresses to the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
Public Schools: At Center or Sidelined? 1984 AASA Small School District Administrator's Conference
Small School District Administrators, 1984
At a conference that focused on critical issues for small schools, the initial speaker voiced the opinion that if current trends continue, public schools may ultimately serve only the handicapped. He cited a need for schools to implement changes through community outreach, day care, senior citizens programs, retraining opportunities, work with…
Descriptors: Communications, Community Services, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Programs
Issues and Answers in the Rural and Small School Education Movement. Annual Rural Education Conference (2nd, Manhattan, Kansas, November 10-11, 1980).
Bailey, Gerald D., Comp.; Scott, Robert E., Comp. – 1981
Conference papers are clustered into three major categories: background--the past and future; current issues in rural and small school education; and individual and group roles in rural and small school education. Papers in the first category provide an overview of the basic changes in rural education, project a picture of rural education in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Career Development, College Role