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Catalytic Improvement Communities: Cultivating Flourishing Schools. Leadership for School Improvement
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Jonathan Eckert Ed.; Bradley W. Carpenter Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
In chemistry, a catalyst accelerates change without being depleted. As we seek school improvement, we need sustainable, scalable changes, and therefore catalytic structures are ideal. From communities of practice to professional learning communities to Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) much has been made in the scholarly and consultancy…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Communities of Practice, Leadership Styles
Training School Principals as Talent Developers: An International Perspective. International Higher Education
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Hayes, Sonya, Ed.; Abdelrahman, Nahed, Ed.; Irby, Beverly, Ed.; Nafukho, Fredrick. M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022
Training School Principals as Talent Developers: An International Perspective focuses on how to prepare school principals to lead their schools by training and supporting teachers in their craft. The main goal of schools is improving teaching and learning in order to maximize students' potential to be college ready and career ready. Principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Training, Talent Development
Relationship-Centered Practices in Early Childhood: Working with Families, Infants, and Young Children at Risk
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Ensher, Gail L.; Clark, David A. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
Strong working relationships with diverse families and children are the foundation of successful early intervention. Discover fresh, practical ways to build these relationships in this essential guidebook, every professional's blueprint for working with children and families within the specific context of their culture, family structure, and risk…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Early Intervention, Homeless People, Child Abuse
Assessment in the Learning Organization: Shifting the Paradigm.
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Kallick, Bena, Ed. – 1995
This collection provides a new perspective for understanding what assessment can do to promote continuous improvement in education. The concepts of systems thinking, continued learning, mental models, shared vision, and team building are highlighted in the selections, which include: (1) "A Systems Approach to Assessing School Culture"…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Using Technology for Learning. Symposium 1. [Concurrent Symposium Session at AHRD Annual Conference, 2000.]
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2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on using technology for learning that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Openness to Technology in Virtual Teams: Implications for International Human Resource Development" (Mary R. Watson, Leigh Anne Liu) reports on a study that examined the attitudes of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Technology
Reforming Personnel Preparation in Early Intervention: Issues, Models, and Practical Strategies.
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Winton, Pamela J., Ed.; And Others – 1997
The 21 papers in this collection address changes and reforms in the preparation of teachers and other personnel concerned with early intervention with children having or at risk for disabilities. The papers are: (1) "Ecological Perspectives on Personnel Preparation: Rationale, Framework, and Guidelines for Change" (Pamela J. Winton,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Educational Change