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Sinner, Gregg – Principal Leadership, 2004
Effective meaningful relationships in schools that are grounded in the common purpose of student achievement and progress result in effective teaching and learning. Such relationships require personalized environments. Schools large and small must purposefully create conditions that enable students and teachers to come to know and be known well by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Teacher Student Relationship, Faculty Advisers, School Activities
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Mathews, Gary S. – Clearing House, 1985
Describes the efforts of the staff of one urban high school in Mississippi to develop and implement a school improvement program based on a school effectiveness model. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, High Schools
Naylor, Michele – 1988
The educational excellence movement has made an academic curriculum a high priority for all high school students, including the 40 percent who do not go on to college. The joint efforts approach to incorporating basic skills into the vocational curriculum is based on the following assumptions: (1) academic skills are embedded in vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Lamont, Ken; Cother, Bob – 1974
The report describes the development of an experimental career guidance and education program for grades 10-12 which focused on including a career decision making unit in the existing curriculum. The program goals were: to increase faculty members' ability to facilitate positive student self-concept development, to increase students' informational…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Guidance
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1967
Designed to aid in developing instructional programs in North Carolina, the guide defines the educable mentally retarded (EMR) and presents the goal of the EMR education program. Also outlined are principles and methods of instruction, traditional areas of the curriculum as they relate to the EMR, and development of a sequential curriculum. Basic…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Copa, George H.; Pease, Virginia H. – 1992
Intended to influence school districts that have the opportunity to build new schools, this document provides new designs for comprehensive high schools that would overcome the mismatch between school and life, the inequity of educational outcomes, and the lack of organizational effectiveness that plague many contemporary high schools. The designs…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Design, Educational Administration
Copa, George H.; Pease, Virginia H. – 1992
A 2-year project to specify new designs for the comprehensive high school of the future identified the following important features: (1) a guaranteed set of learner outcomes closely linked to present and future life roles and responsibilities for all students; (2) learning applied to life situations, using authentic assessment; (3) multiple ways…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Design, Educational Administration