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Nichols, Sarah L.; Connor, Susan M.; Kastanis, Maria P.; Corso, Robert M. – Infants and Young Children, 2023
A survey was distributed to Part C early intervention (EI) service coordination (SC) stakeholders in one state in order to gain a deeper understanding of service coordinator knowledge, skills, and motivators for professional growth and recognition. Survey participants (N = 107), including dedicated service coordinators, program managers, social…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Administrator Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Professional Development
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Walser, Tamara M. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
No Child Left Behind has increased data collection and reporting, the development of data systems, and interest in using data for decision-making in schools and classrooms. Ends-driven decision making has become common educational practice, where the ends justify the means at all costs, and short-term results trump longer-term outcomes and the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Systems Approach, Educational Practices
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2009
This document is intended to assist State Education Agency (SEA) and Lead Agency (LA) staff and technical assistance providers in designing a meaningful evaluation for the State Performance Plan (SPP)/Annual Performance Report (APR) improvement activities. It provides: (1) information about the relevance of evaluation in the context of improvement…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Technical Assistance, Program Improvement, Guidelines
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Thornton, Bill; Peltier, Gary; Perreault, George – Clearing House, 2004
This article examines how schools can avoid barriers to systems thinking in relation to improving student achievement. It then illustrates common errors associated with non-systems thinking and recommends solutions. Educators who understand that schools are complex interdependent social systems can move their organizations forward. Unfortunately,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Decision Making, Organizational Change, Academic Achievement
Kogan, Deborah; Koller, Vinz; Kozumplik, Richalene; Lawrence, Mary Ann – 1999
This document presents 22 tools that were developed for use in a five-module training package to assist employment and training service providers comply with the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and develop a one-stop training and employment services system. Each tool addresses a different aspect of the process of developing a one-stop delivery…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Brainstorming, Career Centers, Charts
Kogan, Deborah; Koller, Vinz; Kozumplik, Richalene; Lawrence, Mary Ann – 1999
This document is part of a five-module training package to help employment and training service providers comply with the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 and develop a one-stop training and employment services system. It consists of the participant workbook, trainer manual, and activity worksheets for a module on reviewing system-building…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavioral Objectives, Career Centers, Classroom Techniques
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies are required partners in the one-stop system mandated by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). The following features have long characterized VR: the primary goal of integrated competitive employment for persons with disabilities; state flexibility in VR systems, approaches, and structures; case…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Articulation (Education)