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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Tyre, Ashli D. – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) offers an alternative to reactive and exclusionary school discipline practices. However, the shift to SWPBS requires substantial change in the practices of staff, and many leadership teams struggle to rally staff support for implementation. With a more thorough understanding of staff perceptions, level…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Teacher Attitudes, Program Development, Program Implementation
Lucas, Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Since the introduction of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2010, the education world has experienced a paradigm shift in the pedagogical expectations of educators, and there have been a decidedly mixed results on the implementation of the new standards. This qualitative study explored the experiences of several school administrators…
Descriptors: Principals, Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation, Partnerships in Education
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Marrs, Heath; Little, Suzanne – Contemporary School Psychology, 2014
As Response to Intervention (RTI) models continue to be implemented, an important research question is how school psychologists are experiencing the transition to RTI practice. In order to better understand the experiences of school psychologists, interviews with seven practicing school psychologists regarding their perceptions of barriers and…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Barriers, Response to Intervention, Program Implementation
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Abbott, Rebecca; Macdonald, Doune; Hay, Peter; McCuaig, Louise – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
This article presents the evaluation findings of an education policy initiative that involved the employment of facilitators to broker the policy and its implementation. An Australian state's education authority piloted the employment of physical activity facilitators to expedite the implementation of "Smart Moves" in schools, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Facilitators (Individuals), Program Implementation
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010
As the nation has embraced the need to graduate every student ready for college and careers, high school reform has emerged at the top of the education agenda. Many local and state leaders are implementing strategies to address low performance and close achievement gaps. As federal policymakers look ahead to opportunities to support this…
Descriptors: High Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Rate, Resistance to Change
Jeschke, Thomas – 1990
A discussion of educational change as a four-phase process is offered in this bulletin. Strategies for initiation, implementation, institutionalization, and impact, with an emphasis on the first two stages, are described. Also included are a discussion of myths of change and an annotated bibliography of seven sources on educational change. (23…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
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Bierlein, Louann; Bateman, Mark – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1996
Examines the conceptual underpinnings of charter schools, their appeal to reformers, and the resistance to their implementation. The charter-school movement seems promising but will probably founder, due to inadequate financial support, special interest groups' lobbying efforts, and lack of an entrepreneurial spirit among educators. (11…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System
Jones, John Hodge – School Administrator, 1994
Murfreesboro (Tennessee) City Schools extended the school day and year with no additional cost to taxpayers. Implementation was arduous and faced great resistance. Eventual solution made better use of the school system's capital assets and human resources, rearranged Chapter 1 money, required additional business support and parents' willingness to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Day, Program Implementation
Evans, Robert L. – 1993
With some notable exceptions, the school critics in the first and second "waves" of restructuring have largely neglected problems of resistance in implementation of reform. The primary task of managing change is not technical, but motivational. Building commitment to innovation among those who must implement it requires a focus on readiness.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Levin, James A.; Thurston, Cathy – Educational Leadership, 1996
Network-based learning, unlike word processing or programming, does not require numerous computers and unlimited connection time. It can motivate students to become involved in a wide range of learning activities. Implementation barriers include infrastructure and access, the telecommunications-curriculum gap, and insufficient support and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Networks
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Aschbacher, Pamela R. – Educational Policy, 1994
Describes project that provided technical assistance to elementary and secondary teachers at six sites while collecting data on problems encountered and educators' evolving concepts of alternative assessment. Key difficulties in understanding were teachers' focus on classroom activities rather than student goals, uncertainty about specifying…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation
Brown, Daniel J. – School Administrator, 1995
Individuals interested in derailing school-based management lurk in most school communities. Some stakeholders are against true decentralization and can play their cards to subvert the process. Illegitimate intransigence can arise at the exploration or commitment stages. A sidebar shows how to defend against sabotage by making critical choices…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change Strategies, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
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O'Neill, Jan – Educational Leadership, 2000
Historical memory is part of an organization's culture and should not be forgotten. Stories acquire more power and persuasion each time an initiative is imposed without attention to how people think and feel about it. The Historygram process provides a collective forum for reviewing an organization's past. (MLH)
Descriptors: Community, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Oral History
McAdoo, Maisie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
In New York City, a $25 million Annenberg grant was targeted to 100 individual schools to empower their staffs via innovative networks and accountability structures. However, the changes that graced the proposals did not create the desired momentum. Targeting school-level groups cannot in itself lead to systemwide change. Problems arose from…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure
Sims, E. Norman – 1991
In 1984, the Council of State Governments undertook a study to assess states' intentions regarding implementation of the Commission on Excellence in Education's 1983 report "A Nation at Risk." The study described in this report follows up on the findings of the Council's 1984 study, identifying the areas where states have made progress…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education, Program Implementation
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