Explains why the educational organization should sponsor, facilitate, and coordinate staff development activities. Describes 12 guiding principles that give staff development programs a positive direction, including commitment, recognition of the individual, planning and coordination of staff development, program implementation, and program…

Facing an ever-increasing student retention rate, staff at a Washington elementary school implemented a multiage program. Teachers received considerable training but experienced burnout the first year. Four years later, retention is down, test scores and attendance are up, discipline referrals have decreased, teacher turnover is low, and parents…

According to one survey, good elementary schools have a strong sense of purpose and are committed to teamwork and staff development. A school board can instigate major improvements by developing a clearly stated policy affirming district commitment to sound early childhood education practices. A sidebar summarizes five characteristics of good…

This document describes the early childhood services program in Alberta, Canada and its goals for accomplishment with children, within families, and in the community. Early Childhood Services (ECS), Alberta Education, is concerned with the provision of a coordinated system of local, regional, and provincial programs and services to meet the…

Described are characteristics of the Center for Successful Child Development (CSCD), a family-oriented early childhood intervention program serving 6 of 28 buildings of the Robert Taylor Homes (a public housing project inhabited by 20,000 people on Chicago's south side). After an introductory section providing background information, discussion…

This report is a compilation of information on the educational, parent involvement, health services, social services, and staff development components of Prekindergarten Head Start, a School District of Philadelphia child development preschool program for children of low income families. Instructional models used in the program were Bank Street,…

The Roosevelt School District, with the lowest wealth per pupil of the 56 districts located in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, worked with the Urban Education Department of the University of Massachusetts' Division of Instructional Leadership to design and implement a degree-granting staff development program centered around identifying and…

This report summarizes results of an evaluation of the Get Set Day Care Program in the Philadelphia public schools. The program, which provides child care services to low income families, has three purposes: (1) to enable parents or other caretakers of children to work, to receive employment-related training or education, or to receive social or…

Eleven projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of education innovations, are sketched in this booklet of exemplary and innovative school programs in Kentucky. Programs are categorized according to regions, and focus on: regional…