Seventeen enrollees in Goodwill Industries' executive training program via correspondence courses received weekly telephone calls from tutors; a control group of 17 received written responses only when completed assignments were returned. Subjects with external locus of control completed coursework significantly faster when they had regular…

Teacher leaders provide the key to meaningful change being sustained in schools and classrooms. This book, based on 10-years' experience in collaboration on staff-development activities, provides information on the development of teachers as leaders. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of different stakeholder roles in developing teacher…

A new model of public school district performance concerns the "employment relations" (ER) system within a school district--the policies, practices, and actions that govern relations between a district and its teachers. The model posits that the performance of public school districts is propelled by the quality of ER. Productive ER,…