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Kentta, Bill – School Administrator, 1997
Each Oregon school is required to have a council responsible for developing a staff development plan, improving the instructional program, and coordinating school-reform efforts. During the Eugene district's implementation phase, central-office administrators played a key role in providing organizational development training and in allocating…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Program Implementation
Lonardi, Emilie M. – School Administrator, 1998
An administrative team member/restructuring facilitator analyzes the failure of a block scheduling reform in a small, suburban district. The prevailing dynamics that obstructed success were fear of change, propagandizing of data, and a culture of complacency. These problems could have been avoided by training staff to work in longer periods,…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Central Office Administrators, Change Strategies, Failure
Parsley, James F. – School Administrator, 1991
Besides reorganizing the central office to support instructional goals, the Vancouver (Washington) School District has passed bond and levy issues to revitalize the infrastructure, changed to a three-year middle school configuration, designed three new school facilities, and allocated $1 million for school improvement initiatives. The goals are…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Decentralization, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education