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Salvaterra, Mary E.; Adams, Don C. – 1998
A study focused primarily on building-level leadership by observing how principals in 12 high schools (11 public and 1 Catholic) engaged in planning a structural change from a traditional schedule with 45-minute periods to the 90-minute periods of a block schedule. Using a concerns-based model of change, principals' behaviors and teachers'…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Block Scheduling, Change Strategies, High Schools

Howard, Elizabeth – American Secondary Education, 1997
This case study reflects block scheduling's effects on advanced-placement mathematics courses of one veteran teacher tracking personal progress since 1989. Block scheduling began in 1994, creating problems for the teacher, whose resistance to the reform was based on declining advanced-placement scores. Teacher attitude and insufficient…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Block Scheduling, Case Studies, High Schools