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Bucey, Janet C.; Provident, Ingrid M. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2018
This article evaluates a peer mentoring experience for school-based practitioners and its effect on collaborative consultation practices. Best practice and public school policy promote the use of collaborative consultation services but school-based practitioners report significant barriers in achieving effective collaborative consultation…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Peer Groups, Mentors, Pretests Posttests
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Watkins, Marley W.; Hall, Tracey E.; Worrell, Frank C. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2014
In this article, we report on a multiyear consultation project between a consulting team based in the United States and the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago. The project was initiated with a request for training in counseling for secondary school students but ended with the training of personnel from the Ministry of Education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Consultation Programs, Guidance Programs, Student Personnel Services
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Thornberg, Robert – Urban Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate multiprofessional collaboration as well as collaboration between professionals and challenging students and their parents in which the focus for these collaborations was on handling the challenging students' academic and social behavior. A grounded theory study of collaboration between a prereferral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Social Behavior, Focus Groups
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Williams, Paul R.; Tabernik, Anna Maria; Krivak, Terry – Education and Urban Society, 2009
Few researchers support the belief that a school superintendent can drive improvements in student achievement. The Science and Mathematics Achievement Required for Tomorrow (SMART) Consortium was formed in northeast Ohio in 1998 with the belief that superintendents can have a measurable effect on student learning. The goal of this collaboration…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Consortia, Superintendents
Dean, Ceri B.; Galvin, Mike; Parsley, Danette – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2005
Today’s schools are complex systems with complex problems. Addressing those problems often requires significant change efforts. However, many school administrators don’t know how to select a focus for these efforts or how to lead staff through such changes--and even if they did, the job is too large for one person. One solution to this dilemma is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Partnerships in Education, Educational Administration