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…

This AACRAO "60 Second Survey" asked respondents to identify the size, composition, name and level of decentralization for the Office of the Registrar. There were 1,389 unique institutional responses that represented 21 countries, commonwealths or territories, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and 9 Canadian…

Most districts are facing severe budgetary constraints, and special education is one area that is feeling the effects. Special education consumes an average of 20%-30% of school district budgets. Pacing fiscal and systemic controls on special-education spending, and examining para professional placements in particular, will lead to better delivery…

This article deals with the question of staff differentiation. The central issue relates to the concept of a teaching hierarchy. Differentiation is a natural process of organization building. It is nothing more than thedivision of labor. (Author/MS)

This list of eight guidelines includes a brief review of the literature related to differentiated staffing and a description of the historical development and implementation of differentiated staffing in one school district. It is based on the Mentor Ohio Exempted Village School District's five years' experience with differentiated staffing in two…

Twenty-three teams of trainers of paraprofessional school personnel from school districts in Wayne County were trained, each team composed of five persons representing four different levels: a central office administrator, a building principal, a teacher working or planning to work with paraprofessionals, and two paraprofessionals. The program…

This monograph considers 12 questions which could provide guidelines for local administrators and school boards to follow in considering the concept of differentiated staffing: 1) What are your instructional objectives and is the proposed staffing pattern related to these objectives? 2) Will the proposed new patterns provide for continued…

This booklet is to facilitate the efforts of interested groups to determine the feasibility of introducing differentiated staffing. The guide begins with a definition of differentiated staffing, followed by a brief outline of the major factors involved in the concept: personnel, curriculum, community relations, equipment and materials, facilities,…

A new approach to classification and assignment, called differentiated staffing, has found favor among some educators as a way of alleviating teacher shortage and as an answer to the problem of teacher salaries. (GR)

A study attempted to ascertain if practical and flexible criteria could be developed that would be useful as guidelines to school districts in the state of Washington in meeting current staffing problems. The guidelines focused on and incorporated 1) current education objectives, 2) psycho-sociological influences, 3) changing methods of education,…

This 211-item bibliography on teacher aides covers a period of approximately 10 years and is based on the following sources: the Canadian Education Index, the Education Index, Current Index to Journals in Education, Cumulative Book Index, Research in Education, Education Studies Completed in Canadian Universities, and Research Studies in…