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Werth, Eric P.; Werth, Loredana – Adult Learning, 2011
A generational shift is occurring in training environments worldwide, a shift that promises to bring with it a dramatic and long-lasting impact. Just as years ago, those of the Baby Boomer generation passed the torch to Generation X, today the process is starting anew with Generation X and those who have come to be known as the Millennials.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training Methods, Generational Differences, Training
Zoul, Jeffrey – Eye on Education, 2010
Use Friday Focus memos to motivate and engage your staff every week, and help create a school culture focused on the growth of students "and" teachers. Easy to understand and implement, Friday Focus memos offer an effective and efficient way to improve student learning, staff development, and school culture from within. Written by educational…
Descriptors: Principals, Homework, School Culture, Academic Achievement
Lee, Alison, Ed.; Danby, Susan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The number of doctorates being awarded around the world has almost doubled over the last ten years, propelling it from a small elite enterprise into a large and ever growing international market. Within the context of increasing numbers of doctoral students this book examines the new doctorate environment and the challenges it is starting to face.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
McKnight, Andrew N. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2008
This paper argues by way of analogy that the psychological descriptors of "masochist" and "sadist", a person who submits or dominates, respectively can aptly describe many aspects of the power relationships teachers and students experience within institutions of public education. Teachers operate in an often ethically contradictory position, torn…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Environment, Ethics, Educational Principles
Grant, Jim – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
This book is a survival guide as well as a valuable tool for making our schools more effective and appropriate places for students to learn and achieve. Exploring the often complex, multifaceted, and co-occurring problems in the education system, the book addresses specific problems, discusses the real reasons they developed and persist, describes…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Instructional Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Grebner, Lee G. – Executive Review, 1983
This document proposes a statement of purpose for public education and provides a rationale to support and possibly to improve the statement. The statement reads: "The purpose of elementary and secondary public education in this country is to enable all students to be and to become productive contributors toward making planet earth a good and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Strike, Kenneth A. – Corwin Press, 2006
Discover the link between ethical leadership and successful educational communities! In an age of accountability and transparency, principals are held responsible for everything from test scores to school finances. Because of this increased accountability, school leaders must regularly confront difficult ethical dilemmas. This book teaches…
Descriptors: Leadership, Principals, Democracy, Accountability
Krovetz, Martin L. – 1999
Schools that trust their students, and schools that value, respect, and know their students are schools that foster resiliency for their students. More than any other single factor, the lack of a deeply held belief in every child's ability leads to underachieving students. Seven schools that are working to remove roadblocks to student success are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Children, Educational Change

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. – 1982
This annual journal issue contains 21 papers, many of which were developed as background pieces for sessions of the annual conferences of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). Papers are grouped into four sections on: personal reflections, faculty development, evaluation of teaching practices, and…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Environment
Colburn, Alan – 1993
Several factors may interfere with the effective collaboration between universities and K-12 schools, a key element in the process of establishing and operating professional development schools (PDSs). These factors relate to differences in school and university cultures and the impact of these differences on the respective faculties. Among the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College School Cooperation, Educational Environment, Educational History
Bonstingl, John Jay – 2001
This book presents the concept that quality as a keystone philosophy in today's business world can be applied to school systems as a means to improving education and all aspects of school culture, producing a school of quality. The author uses examples such as Japan's adopting William E. Deming's quality-control principles to help it skyrocket…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Experience
Barell, John – 1991
The union of thought and feeling, the basis of the concept of "thoughtfulness," is one of the major themes of this book, which is designed to help teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and parents empower students to take more control of their own education and lives. It presents strategies for teaching students about the nature…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, Educational Principles
Blokhuis, Jason C. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
If the notion of public and private spheres seems somehow quaint or old-fashioned, the distinction between public and private corporations will be that much more obscure. Yet Channel One broadcasts in a public school classroom are indisputably the result of a contract between a private corporation (Alloy Media + Marketing) and a public corporation…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Interests, Boards of Education, Corporations
Deal, Terrence E.; Peterson, Kent D. – 1999
Reforms that strive for educational excellence will fail unless they are meaningfully linked to schools' unique cultures. Chapter 1, "Introduction: The Case for School Culture," discusses the impact of culture on achievement, reform, and learning. Chapter 2, "Schools as Tribes," examines a school that transformed itself through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Amonashvili, Shalva – Prospects, 1989
Explains nondirective or pupil-centered teaching, an alternative to traditional education in the Soviet Union. Uses Vygotsky's area of proximal development to envision teaching methods that anticipate and promote higher development levels. Stresses humanistic approach, involving students and responding to individual needs. Also proposes in-depth…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Environment, Educational Principles, Educational Theories
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