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Make or Buy? That's Really Not the Question
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Peurach, Donald J.; Glazer, Joshua L.; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Conventional thinking holds that districts and schools face a strategic decision between two fundamentally different alternatives: make or buy? The former refers to planning, designing, and enacting school-specific improvement initiatives. The latter refers to contracting with external providers of schoolwide improvement programs. However, there…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Decision Making
Cadres of Top Qualification for an Innovative Russia
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Mosicheva, I. A.; Shestak, V. P.; Sokolova, M. V.; Zastrozhnova, E. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
Improving the Russian economy depends in part on having well-educated and energetic personnel, and this is being hindered by universities in which there is an aging professoriate and students enrolled in specialties that are not in demand by employers. Higher education is expected not only to conduct programs of specialist training in order to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
The Vallas Effect: The Supersized Superintendent Moves to the Superdome City
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Mezzacappa, Dale – Education Next, 2008
Of the cadre of non-educators--business leaders, military men, government officials, lawyers--who have been called on to transform large urban school districts in recent years, Paul Vallas has been at it the longest and, in the minds of many, is the one with the best track record. Since 1995, he has tackled the third- and eighth-largest districts…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Superintendents, School Cadres, Unions
A Winding Path: Tucson Follows Circuitous Route toward Professional Learning for Principals
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Scarborough, Harriet Arzu – Journal of Staff Development, 2008
Principals manage schools, ensuring that nothing interrupts business as usual. They spend little time on instruction. A good principal is the one who works in a high-achieving school that has no significant management problems. Districts celebrate improved student results by recognizing an outstanding crop of students, rarely pointing to the…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Accountability
Language Development for English Language Learners. Facilitator's Guide
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Rivera, Mabel O.; Moughamian, Ani; Francis, David J. – Center on Instruction, 2009
This Facilitator's Guide has been prepared for presenters of the "Language Development for English Language Learners" professional development module. It accompanies the 67-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker's notes and contains materials to help prepare for a professional development session, including activity instructions, handouts,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Professional Development, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
The Training of Qualified Cadres Is the Region's Urgent Problem
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Torlopov, Vladimir – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The Conception of the Modernization of Russian Education has as its objective that of ensuring the anticipatory development of the training of highly qualified workers in the primary and secondary link. This article describes the efforts of the Russian government to improve the quality, accessibility, and effectiveness of professional education…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Professional Education, Labor, Labor Market