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Demonstrating the Relationship between School Nurse Workload and Student Outcomes
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Daughtry, Donna; Engelke, Martha Keehner – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
This article describes how one very large, diverse school district developed a Student Acuity Tool for School Nurse Assignment and used a logic model to successfully advocate for additional school nurse positions. The logic model included three student outcomes that were evaluated: provide medications and procedures safely and accurately, increase…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Outcomes of Education, School Districts, School Health Services
Practicing What We Teach: Learning from Experience to Improve Adult Program Administration
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Jass, Lori K. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2012
Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, comprises three primary units that each serve a distinct population: the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is a residential college for roughly 2,800 traditional-age undergraduates; the College of Adult and Professional Studies and Graduate School (CAPS/GS) serves roughly 2,200 adult learners at both the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Adult Programs, Systems Approach
The Context of the Demand for Special Education Faculty: A Study of Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs
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Robb, Susan Mortorff; Smith, Deborah Deutsch; Montrosse, Bianca Elizabeth – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2012
Understanding the context of the demand for special education (SE) teacher education (TE) faculty is important because it can provide faculty at doctoral-granting universities with useful information for program planning. Knowing more about SE teacher preparation programs currently in place and program revisions being planned allows doctoral…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Doctoral Programs, Special Education Teachers, Program Development
Nurturing a Winning District Website: It Takes an Extended School Family
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Haas-Bethell, Gretchen – Journal of School Public Relations, 2009
The award-winning website for Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of the communications department's most powerful tools in building positive relationships. As with raising a child, the challenge lies in finding ways to nurture a growing entity--constantly providing it with meaningful information, adapting it to social changes, and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Web Sites, Awards, Communications
Keys to Sustaining Successful School Turnarounds
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Duke, Daniel L. – ERS Spectrum, 2006
To identify the changes associated with the school turnaround process, this article reviewed 15 case studies of elementary school turnaround initiatives that sustained improvements for at least two years. Changes were clustered into eight categories: leadership, school policy, programs, organizational processes, staffing, classroom practices,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Elementary Schools, Instructional Leadership
Crossing the Chasm--Introducing Flexible Learning into the Botswana Technical Education Programme: From Policy to Action
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Richardson, Alison Mead – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This paper reports on a longitudinal, ethnomethodological case study of the development towards flexible delivery of the Botswana Technical Education Programme (BTEP), offered by Francistown College of Technical & Vocational Education (FCTVE). Data collection methods included documentary analysis, naturalistic participant observation, and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Participant Observation, Staff Utilization, Interviews