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Peters, Dustin A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
Highlights the initial restructuring efforts begun by a Pennsylvania high school participating in the Coalition of Essential Schools. After several years of discussion, the staff undertook summer inservice training featuring a reading project, an ideal/reality exercise, a shadowing project, and a school visitation process. Choosing an…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, High Schools, Inservice Education, School Restructuring
Robson, Sue; Turner, Yvonne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This paper reports on a study that took place in a faculty of humanities and social sciences at a UK university. The institution had recently undergone a radical restructure and the vision for the future presented by the new senior management team highlighted internationalization as one of four major areas for growth. The internationalization…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Humanities, School Restructuring, Change Strategies
Richard, Alan – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
School-based staff developers are becoming more common, but their job description is often poorly focused and their duties varied. The fate of this emerging model of professional development will depend on whether districts and school leaders devote time and resources to develop this strategy into a meaningful method of school reform.
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Staff Development, School Districts

Owen, Jill Mirman; And Others – Journal of Staff Development, 1991
School restructuring is enhanced when strong staff development plays three primary roles: a vehicle for developing new knowledge, skills, and attitudes; an unfreezing influence that helps people consider large-scale restructuring; and a vision of the school as a learning community. Examples from three school districts are provided. (SM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts

Hirsh, Stephanie; Ponder, Gerald – Educational Leadership, 1991
Permanent change in schools means finding effective ways to accomplish professional and personal growth in teachers and administrators. This article rewrites some cautionary tales to provide a sampler of strategies to aid real change. Basically, schools need substantive plans, accountable staff developers, broadened staff development definitions,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education

Melvin, Charles A., III – Journal of Staff Development, 1991
Four school districts adopted a school restructuring project using Deming's business management method. Deming offered alternative views of organizations based on psychology, systems, perceptual framework, and causes of variance. He listed 14 points for quality improvement. Evaluation indicated that key staff members willingly engaged in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Sideris, Eva C.; Skau, Kathryn G. – Education Canada, 1994
Describes school restructuring themes that may be promoted through staff development, including developing a purpose and shared vision, challenging traditional norms of schooling, creating a collaborative school culture, establishing new roles in school governance, and encouraging reflective practice and critical inquiry. Addresses the role of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1991
The nation's Governors resolved to lead restructuring efforts in their states as part of their commitment to achieve the national education goals by the year 2000. States are experimenting with a range of approaches to restructuring, depending on their resources, demographics, governance structures, and traditions. This report describes states'…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation

Ellis, Susan S. – Journal of Staff Development, 1994
The article describes how Susan Derse, principal of a Seattle high school, works with her school to facilitate and encourage change, focusing on her approach to staff development. Ms. Derse uses a collaborative, participatory style of leadership that allows plenty of time for teachers to meet and work together. (SM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Prager, Karen – 1993
A persistent dilemma of school leadership is whether principals should concentrate efforts on building cohesion and good working relationships among staff or on specific curriculum aimed toward specific learning outcomes for students. Interviews with three principals who worked through both strengthening collegiality and improving curriculum show…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Collegiality, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
McKenzie, Jamieson A. – Executive Educator, 1990
A staff development program for a New Jersey school district involved a day-long visit to a new corporate office complex to acquaint teachers with a modern electronic office and the need to prepare students for the modern workplace. (MLF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)

Johnson, William L.; And Others – Journal of Staff Development, 1992
Reports current ideas from the general organizational productivity literature to provide a broader context for restructuring schools. The article discusses work culture patterns (involving schoolwide planning, professional development, program development, and school assessment) and describes how to manage productive schools, presenting…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Collegiality, Educational Change, Educational Improvement

Rushcamp, Sharon; Roehler, Laura R. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1992
One of five articles on professional development schools in this theme issue. Naturalistic research methods were used to identify the characteristics that supported changes in professional development initiatives, restructuring, and teaching and learning in Crescentview School (Michigan), a multicultural, multilingual, elementary professional…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Educational Change
Fuentes, Nancy; And Others – Issues about Change, 1994
In 1992 the Texas Education Agency selected 83 schools to participate in its Partnership Schools Initiative (PSI), which had the goals of improving outcomes for students and closing the performance gaps among various student groups. The schools were allowed flexibility in the process used to achieve these goals. One of the partnership schools,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. – 1995
Based on a 1994 symposium and intended to be used with a video, this monograph attempts to bring together the perspectives of gifted education and school reform. Individual chapters address the following topics: (1) changes in gifted education, changes in general education, the need to find a balance, a history of tensions, and remaining tensions;…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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