Eliminating the achievement gap and ensuring high-quality education for diverse student populations depend upon the capacity of local educational leaders to be highly effective at enabling schools in all contexts to teach all students. Realizing this goal also depends upon the capacity of local universities to prepare and support educational…

School principals are confronted with a variety of issues as they provide leadership and organization to their schools. Evidence is growing that successful school leaders influence achievement through the support and development of effective teachers and the implementation of effective organizational practice (Davis, Darling-Hammond, LaPointe,…

A grant from the School Leadership Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education during 2008-14 provided the opportunities and resources for SREB to bring together its cutting-edge knowledge base, field experience, and substantial bank of publications and training materials in the closely related fields of school improvement and school…

This instructional module, which is used in a principal certification graduate class entitled School and Community Relations, is fixed within the literature that describes school stakeholders' confusion about the explicit roles of school counselors, especially principals. The authors begin by creating a framework for the lesson activity in which…

This instructional module describes a performance assessment designed to equip prospective principals with the knowledge and skill needed to evaluate curriculum, observe and assess instruction, interact meaningfully with teachers about instructional decision-making, and design professional learning opportunities that enhance student learning…

The purpose of this development phase of a larger project entitled "Development of Competency-Based Instructional Materials for Local Vocational Education Administrators" was to field test and revise prototypic competency-based administrator instructional packages. A search was conducted to identify currently available competency-based…

The first year of work has been completed by a consortium composed of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) and seven interested states to support the cooperative development, field testing, and implementation of competency based modules for the preparation of local administrators of vocational education. An outgrowth of…

Authors David L. Gray and Agnes E. Smith have written a book of cases to give prospective school leaders opportunities to resolve complex issues in K-12 school settings through reflective questions, activities, and authentic assessment tools for skill development. "Case Studies in 21st Century School Administration" presents thought-provoking case…

The main aim of the International Institute for Educational Planning's program "Training the Trainers" is to improve the technical skills of planning specialists and to develop their organizational capabilities so that they can run national training programs. The objectives of the workshop described in this reort were to design the…

The purpose of this project was to develop, administer, and evaluate an inservice education program designed to provide entrepreneurial competencies for owner-managers of newly formed small business firms. The project objectives included the following: (1) identify the core-crucial managerial-entrepreneurial competencies needed by the…

To increase the supply of modularized instructional materials to meet the need for preservice and/or inservice education of professional vocational educators, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education and seven interested states organized in 1978 a Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education. To…

A national training program was conducted to prepare selected vocational teacher educators and state department of education personnel to develop and/or improve personnel development programs for local administrators of vocational education. The training program consisted of a competency-based national training workshop and follow-up on-site…

Describes the development of an interactive multimedia accounting module for management accounting at the University of Western Ontario. Discusses results of a study of graduate students that investigated the influence of the module on learning and retention compared to traditional instruction as well as students' perceptions of the module.…

The Missouri Professors of Educational Administration (MPEA) initiated the Leaders for Learning project to create technology based instructional materials aligned with the standards of the Interstate School Leadership Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). With funding from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), faculty from…

A consortium of the Colorado association of local directors of vocational education, professional staff of the Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, and personnel of the Department of Vocational Education at Colorado State University planned and developed instructional packages and media for the in-service…