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Peer reviewedDavis, O. L., Jr. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1994
Urges educators to beware adopting new programs during the coming academic year. A better approach is to adapt worthy innovations without throwing out last year's innovations. The history of American educational practice supports this approach, emphasizing the value of familiar continuity sprinkled with modest and occasionally some significant…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedGreene, Myrna L. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1992
In 1985, the Medicine Hat School District in southern Alberta, Canada, initiated the Model for Teacher Supervision and Evaluation to change school district culture and promote teachers' professional development and empowerment. The change mechanism was clinical supervision--a process allowing teachers to determine and achieve their own goals. The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Models
Peer reviewedPoole, Marybeth G.; Okeafor, Karen R. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1989
This study examines whether three school-level factors identified in Fullan's theory of educational change would affect implementation levels in a curriculum change process. Effects of task-relevant interactions among teachers and between teachers and administrators were analyzed, along with teachers' sense of efficiency. (TE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGrimmett, Peter P. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1987
Investigates the role of district supervisors (assistant superintendents) in a British Columbia school district's implementation of a peer coaching network for principals and teachers. Two school improvement approaches are also compared. With one exception, results indicate a need for greater district support of principals as school leaders. (CJH)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewedLewis, Mary E. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1988
This study was conducted to learn why teachers continue to use a nutrition education innovation that was implemented by 21 teachers over three years. An ex post facto design was used to assess the significance of three implementation variables: the teacher, internal support, and external support. Results suggest teacher perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBurlbaw, Lynn M. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2000
School reform implementations most often proceed from an ahistorical position. A study analyzing articles in three volumes of each of two education journals ("Phi Delta Kappan" and "Educational Leadership") revealed that 17 to 48 percent had no references to support assertions; few references were older than 15 years. (Contains…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Research
