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Biggs, Susan Connell; Hodgson, Kevin; Penniman, Bruce M. – National Writing Project (NJ1), 2008
Between 1999 and 2003, the Western Massachusetts Writing Project experienced a series of changes that made it question whether it could survive as a writing project site. The convergence of retirement, unexpected death, and withdrawal of long-term financial support forced the existing leadership to develop a process to look deeply into the work of…
Descriptors: Internet, Inquiry, Program Development, Change Strategies
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Loucks, Susan; Pratt, Harold – Educational Leadership, 1979
A model for change is currently being tested in a collaborative effort between a national research center and a large school district: the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin and the Jefferson County, Colorado, Public School District. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1977
This document examines the concern of teachers at the school level for continuing, relevant inservice training, the disatisfaction they are experiencing with traditional inservice programs, and the ways in which local education associations (LEA's) can help improve inservice education. Teachers are now demanding that inservice (1) be related to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Inservice Teacher Education, Local Issues, Negotiation Agreements
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Clinton, Hillary Rodham – Journal of Teacher Education, 1985
Effective inservice programs are necessary to ensure that current reforms in education are properly implemented. Inservice programs must meet the needs of both the educational system and educators. Six basic policy assumptions dealing with what is needed in inservice education are discussed. (DF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Inservice Teacher Education
Acheson, Keith A. – 1978
This paper reports the development and dissemination of a training program for supervisors that taught them skills of classroom observation and techniques for holding conferences with teachers. The program also served the purpose of providing a vehicle for gaining the support of supervisors and administrators in projects that had teachers for a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs
National Inservice Network, Bloomington, IN. – 1981
An inservice model for school personnel was designed and used in 181 school systems in Kentucky. The model consists of seven time-specific phases and four generic activities that apply to each of the phases. The time phases are: (1) preliminary planning; (2) needs assessment; (3) goal and objective setting; (4) task, activity, and resource…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Design
Ginsberg, Rick; Melnick, Curtis C. – 1981
An overview is presented of the planning, activities and evaluation of a Teacher Corps summer workshop held in Chicago in 1981. Participants in the fifteen-day workshop were faculty and administrators from the Hyde Park Career Academy and Dumas Elementary School, community council members, and Teacher Corps interns. The purposes of the workshop…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Inservice Teacher Education, Mainstreaming
Standerfer, Leslie – Principal Leadership, 2005
Three years ago, when the author joined the staff of Agua Fria High School in Phoenix, Arizona, as an assistant principal, she was excited to find that the students' school day started an hour and a half later than normal each Wednesday to provide staff development time for the teaching staff. That first year, however, neither the principal, Bryce…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Development, Personal Narratives, Program Development
St. John, Mark; Allen, Kasi; Carroll, Becky; Mitchell, Heather; Horsch, Elizabeth; Lopez, Laurie – Inverness Research, 2008
The Appalachian Math Science Partnership (AMSP) is a project within NSF's (National Science Foundation's) Math Science Partnerships (MSP) initiative. Funded at $23 million over five years, the AMSP involved 51 school districts and nine higher education institutions in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The AMSP faced two significant challenges in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Regional Programs, Coordinators, Colleges
Walker, Paul Randy, Ed. – 1978
Institutional change in schools of education is discussed here with special regard for field-based teacher education programs and inservice education, both of which are viewed as potential growth areas in schools with declining enrollments. The first article deals with the challenge that inservice education offers, both in terms of growth…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Beegle, Charles W., Ed.; Edelfelt, Roy A., Ed. – 1977
This publication consists of 16 papers originally prepared for a 1974 conference which was jointly sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the University of Virginia. The individual papers include "Scene and Context: American Society Today,""Problems and Issues of Staff…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends
Harrison, Robert S. – 1979
The key determinants of successful implementation of a teacher inservice education program are discussed. Strong motivation and perceived need for change on the part of the teachers themselves is a major factor in initiating a program. Other critical factors are group involvement, mutual support and feedback, external support, administrative…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment, Program Descriptions
Sharpes, Donald K. – 1974
This booklet is intended to guide educational administrators who are interested in instituting professional staff development programs and/or moving toward more innovative staffing patterns and procedures. The suggestions and examples presented will be helpful to administrators working at the individual school level as well as those contemplating…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Administration
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Worthington. Div. of Special Education. – 1996
This is the second publication in a series of three reports that summarize the results of Ohio's Javits Project, a 3-year federally sponsored program to improve the identification of and services to young economically disadvantaged gifted children in 25 Ohio schools. This report details the processes used by project teams to create a shared vision…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Economically Disadvantaged
Kersh, Bert Y.; And Others – 1978
Ideas and recommendations emerging from three regional workshops on staff development are presented. The workshops, conducted in early 1978, focused on three aspects of faculty development for inservice: the identification and and analysis of current and likely future staff development in colleges and universities whose mission in elementary and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Needs, Educational Strategies, Faculty Development
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