Noting the need for a vocational agriculture curriculum that would consider "total" student development, the authors present a list (subdivided into tasks) of nine leadership and personal development competencies (determined by surveying 280 Ohio agricultural leaders) for inclusion in the vocational agriculture curriculum. Eight suggestions for…

The notion of educating and encouraging the whole child is not a new idea, but it awaits full acceptance. Strategies for teaching the whole child in a middle-school environment are presented here. The text opens with an overview of how schools have failed to use the latest ideas and technologies in educating students and how schools can draw on…

Each year staff members in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Division of School Improvement, conduct onsite visits to each of the most improved schools, K-12, as identified by the ABCs of Public Education. Using a structured-interview process, staff members talk with administrators and teachers to determine what strategies…

Today is an opportune time for school administrators to exercise leadership in curriculum development for school achievement. Effective schools research has found a school's culture and its strategies and tactics to be foundational to an excellent school. These are explored in this article. (DCS)

This book was designed to help school, parent, and community leaders acquire the skills necessary for the successful restructuring of middle-level schools. Chapter 1 defines middle-level education and describes the forces that shaped and continue to shape middle-level education, the evolution of middle-level schools, and current middle-level…

A volume in the Merrill Series in Career Programs, this book is an attempt to analyze and interpret changes in vocational and technical education and the public attitude toward it, and to suggest ways in which administrators might use this information in planning and operating programs that prepare youth and adults for employment and help to…