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Wesley A. Sims; Kathleen R. King; June L. Preast; Matthew K. Burns; Sarah Panameño – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2024
Given the widespread use of school-based problem-solving teams (SB PSTs), empirical evidence establishing their effectiveness is essential. Guided by the "Input-Mediator-Output-Input" (IMOI) Framework, this meta-analysis examined SB PST effectiveness generally and differentiated measured effects by targeted outcomes and specific SB PST…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Problem Solving, Outcomes of Education, Meta Analysis
Vern Jones; Louise Jones; Eric Toshalis – Pearson, 2024
"Comprehensive Classroom Management" helps K to 12 teachers understand and apply the principles of effective classroom management in their own classrooms. It offers the background, practical advice and real-life examples you need to understand how to apply the principles of classroom management in your own classroom situation. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Learner Engagement
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Adams, Julie; Duncan Grand, DeAnna – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Historically, deep learning opportunities have occurred in schools attended by this country's most advantaged students, and there have been few successful efforts to systemically create the structures and policies necessary to ensure every student has access to this type of learning. The New Tech Network, a network of more than 200 elementary,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Projects, Public Schools, Models
Walkowiak, Temple A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
There has been a spike in negative comments about mathematics and standards since the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Regardless of whether the comments are fueled by social media or traditional media, educators need to be armed with strategies for helping parents understand, navigate, and embrace the Common Core's mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Alignment (Education), Mathematics Education
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Donaldson, Gordon A., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Educators commonly compare their restructuring efforts to rebuilding a 747 while in flight. Working smarter means monitoring the efficiency of faculty work from two standpoints: productivity in reaching desired student outcomes and depletion of important resources, including human energy. This article presents a five-stage model of the progress…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Planning, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hetzel, Robert W. – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
To avoid bad decisions, principals must be willing to invest time, energy, and resources and prepare the problem-solving team for the frustrations involved in tackling tough problems. Simple probing techniques such as "creating (or intensifying) the problem,""the Five Whys""I wish" statements, the nominal Group Technique, and multivoting can aid…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility, Participative Decision Making
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Smith, Samuel – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2008
Educational Theory into Practice Software (ETIPS) is an online case study program in the testbed stage of development intended for use by professors of education administration. The program is being developed by Sara Dexter and Pamela D. Tucker of the University of Virginia and is being tested by various other universities throughout Virginia. As…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Case Studies, Context Effect
Land, Arthur J. – 1983
From its start in Japan after World War II, the Quality Control Circle (Q.C.) approach to management and organizational operation evolved into what it is today: people doing similar work meeting regularly to identify, objectively analyze, and develop solutions to problems. The Q.C. approach meets Maslow's theory of motivation by inviting…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Firestien, Roger L.; Treffinger, Donald J. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1989
This article, third in a series, discusses the last three phases of the creative problem solving process: idea-finding, solution-finding, and acceptance-finding. These phases focus on brainstorming to generate possibilities and alternatives to the problem, evaluating each idea's strengths and limitations, prioritizing the solutions, and developing…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Charts, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Mitchell, James E. – American School Board Journal, 1990
Site-based management cannot work without the school board's active involvement and determined support. Suggestions are offered from School District 12, Adams County, Colorado, which has been moving away from a centralized administrative system to shared decision-making. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Problem Solving
Pysh, Margaret Van Dusen; Chalfant, James C. – 1997
Schools need effective systems for supporting teachers in meeting students' individual needs and responding to school-wide problems. The Teacher Assistance Team (TAT) model is a school-based problem-solving group that supports teachers by analyzing student, classroom, or school problems and creating alternative strategies for resolving those…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement
Hawley, David – Principal, 1985
Quality Circle members identify problems, select one for attention, analyze the potential causes of the problem, and identify and select preferred solutions that are proposed to the administration. Skills, knowledge, and experience gained by people in an education Quality Circle become theirs as well as those of the school. (MLF)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Brainstorming, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Erickson, Lawrence G. – Executive Educator, 1983
Suggests combining the Delphi technique and the nominal group process technique to improve the collective decision-making of school curriculum and other committees. Both methods require group members to respond in writing. A five-step agenda with sample questions illustrates the approach. (MLF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Delphi Technique, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
Sokoloff, Harris – American School Board Journal, 1997
A community forum provides a setting and a structure for people to deliberate on issues. School district forums organized by the Center for School Study Councils are characterized by diverse participation; and a structure that encourages deliberation and clear outcomes. (MLF)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Meetings, Participative Decision Making
Baine, David – 1988
This presentation introduces the methods of negotiation and mediation in transdisciplinary decision-making, and applies the methods specifically to the educational needs and placements of students with disabilities. Four stages of mediation are described: problem identification, generation of problem-solving options, evaluation of options, and…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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