Principal support is critical in promoting teacher retention, which has continued to be a challenge in elementary schools in the United States. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to ascertain how principals described their strategies for retaining teachers at elementary schools in a large, urban-suburban school district in the Eastern…

This descriptive study examined reading specialists in independent, private schools. The context of reading specialists in independent, private schools and their alignment with reading professional's standards was not previously identified. The purposes of this study were to determine how many independent, private schools employed reading…

A survey of 767 teachers from five major regions of the country solicited teachers' views and perceptions concerning the roles and responsibilities of reading consultants. It was found that 85% or more of the respondents thought that the prime functions of reading consultants are to diagnose students' reading problems, interpret test results,…

This report describes teacher response to selected aspects of supervision as it exists for teachers in grades one through four in one Georgia school system. Teachers were surveyed to determine their responses to assistance provided by a supervisor to individual teachers or groups of teachers through activities relevant to teacher development,…

One of the largest school districts in the United States hired at least one consulting teacher for each elementary school with a high proportion of low income, minority students. These consulting teachers assisted in the implementation of two academic programs--the All Schools Achieve Program (ASAP) and Systematic Strategy Instruction (SSI).…

Suggests that reading specialists should give advice to other teachers, as well as to students. (MKM)

Describes how the author evolved from an isolated reading specialist to a resource person available to all teachers and pupils. (MKM)

This report provides a program description and evaluation findings of a bilingual program for gifted and talented children conducted at C.S. 211, an elementary school serving black and Hispanic children in an economically deprived area of the Bronx, New York. The program's goals, which included above grade level reading and mathematics performance…

As a consultant to Quaker elementary and middle school teachers in Pennsylvania, the author helps teachers develop a sense of how to make a working atmosphere where creative thinking and learning can take place in many ways and helps principals find constructive ways to deal with personnel problems. (Author/SB)

Describes a plan designed to coordinate the efforts of media specialists/librarians and classroom teachers in teaching research and reference skills. (MKM)

Project STREAM (Special Training in Remedial Education Activities for Mainstreaming), a program providing regular elementary teachers with skills to individualize programs for handicapped children in their regular classrooms, is described. (PHR)

A school nurse helped improve nutrition education in the Bellefonte (Pennsylvania) school district by making resource materials and a packaged curriculum available to elementary school teachers and by providing inservice education. As a result, teachers spent more class time on nutrition instruction, and students' knowledge increased. (Authors/PP)

School psychology consultants rated the primary consultee problem for each of their consultation cases. Findings indicate significantly more consultation cases resulted from consultee lack of knowledge, skills, and confidence than from consultee lack of objectivity. Findings question the practical utility of psychodynamically oriented Caplanian…

In Anchorage, Alaska, classroom teachers are supported in their music teaching by resource teachers who provide in-service, regular demonstration lessons, and locally developed materials. This article describes the program's schedule, costs, and staffing, as well as the role of the music resource teacher. (SJL)