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Direct linkIppolito, Jacy; Dobbs, Christina L.; Charner-Laird, Megin – Journal of Staff Development, 2014
This article describes an initiative designed to improve the content-area literacy skills of all students at a Massachusetts high school and to demonstrate the important role teacher leaders play in bridging the various elements of school improvement efforts. Meeting students' language and literacy needs within content-area classrooms is becoming…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedTodnem, Guy R.; Warner, Michael P. – Journal of Staff Development, 1995
Assessment can assist key steps in the development of effective school improvement planning (SIP) programs. The article refers to an SIP Action Guide, highlighting four occasions during use of the Action Guide when assessment processes are key (assessment within action plans and assessment to identify strengths, concerns, and possible causes). (SM)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Faculty Development, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedBank, Adrianne – Journal of Staff Development, 1982
Three sets of relationships between evaluation and staff development are identified: (1) evaluation for staff development in which data from evaluations suggest the program content; (2) evaluation of staff development in which evaluative activities become opportunities for problem solving; and (3) evaluation of staff development in which…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Linking Agents
Dicembre, Elizabeth – Journal of Staff Development, 2002
Eighteen schools in the Baltimore City Public School System have developed a successful whole school reform model. The components of the entire whole school reform package (focused professional development with the staffing to support it, a balanced literacy education program, and monitoring of the instructional program) have enabled the schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Rasmussen, Claudette; Hopkins, Susan; Fitzpatrick, Michele – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
A carefully developed, comprehensive professional development plan takes time, energy, and coordination of resources, but when it's done well, it can seem as effortless as a perfectly pitched curve ball. Seven steps, each with a set of guiding questions, can help planners meet the goal and create a program that produces results. [Appended to this…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Educational Planning, Guides, Program Effectiveness
Hirsh, Stephanie – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
Professional learning is necessary for a school or district to achieve its goals. It's logical, then, that professional development plans should not exist separately from school improvement plans. To be comprehensive, professional development plans must be integrated with improvement plans to produce a systematic effort that is results-driven,…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Educational Improvement, Academic Standards, Teacher Competencies
