Getting new teachers off to the right start is essential for teacher retention and student success. This book shows the nuts and bolts of induction that really works. Drawing on the successful, research-based SHINE program, the authors demonstrate the key components for setting up or tweaking your new teacher induction program, including involving…

Head Start has long focused on assessing and improving program quality to ensure that the children served receive the best possible preparation for school and life. Most research has been focused inside the classroom--the classroom environment, teacher qualifications, and teacher interactions. Of course, the classroom is important because that is…

The changing demands of the 21st century--and the students growing up in it--are generating fundamental challenges to historical assumptions about what education looks like. The challenge today is to provide a deeper level of personalized learning to each and every student so that all can achieve mastery of the Common Core standards and other…

After five years of research, custodial staffing guidelines were developed to determine the proper custodial staffing of office, classroom, and laboratory facilities, including ways to tailor the staffing for specific circumstances. Four figures illustrate the factors involved. (MLF)

Suggests specific ways the staff and equipment of a student publication can be used to raise money through doing printing work for others. (JL)

Suggestions offered for planning a successful volunteer program center on setting goals, defining roles, and timing. Areas identified for volunteer use are admissions, identifying and soliciting fellow alumni, alumni relations, and in program planning for such events as Parent's Weekend. (LC)

Many areas of investing have become so specialized and complex that they need to be addressed by a special effort. Chief financial officers must evaluate whether that effort can be delivered by internal staff or whether an outside contractor is appropriate. Diagnostic questions for making that determination are offered. (MSE)

Federal support for adult day care centers began in the United States approximately 10 years ago. To examine the counseling practices in the adult day care centers across the country and to explore how the services are affected by the staffing patterns at these centers, 135 centers completed a questionnaire. The questionnaire addressed…

Included in this progress report are summaries of the developments and accomplishments associated with the Bulletin of Environmental Education, the Council for Urban Studies Centres, and the London Urban Studies Services. Highlights are presented of the previous year's workshops, conferences, and talks. Identifies and explains future priorities.…

Offers cost-saving suggestions for school management regarding staff, equipment and machinery, materials, and vandalism and theft prevention. (WD)

This handbook suggests that public schools should be reformed in fundamental ways. It outlines the structure of public schools, focusing on administrative units, school boards, administrators, the "mini-laws" that govern the school society, and the three R's of the student: responsibility, respect, and reward. The book emphasizes the importance of…

An overview of the management basics every alumni director needs is presented, including: staffing, planning, managing money, budgets, and facilities management. (MLW)

Volunteers can be an invaluable resource for teachers who are willing to take the time and energy necessary to train them. Guidelines for using volunteers as research aides, sources of special talent or experiences, links to the community, managers of classroom centers, and tutors are offered. (PP)

Defines the role of a department head and suggests some ways to help schools use department chairmen more effectively. (MLF)

A guideline to aid business officials who are contemplating or engaged in computerization. (Author)