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Landa, Cady – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2017
This self-assessment tool was developed for those who wish to embark on state-wide governmental systems change to improve high school transition and employment outcomes for youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Its purpose is to aid in the development of a work plan that is based on a review of the state…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Youth, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability
Rocheleau, Larrae – School Administrator, 1991
Having rewritten W. Edwards Deming's 14 points from an educational perspective, the superintendent of a state-run boarding school serving native Alaskans describes the transformation that the school and his own administrator role have undergone thanks to systems thinking and a paradigm shift demanding change at the top. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, American Indians, Educational Change, High Schools
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Thompson, Scott; Clem, Joe; Battino, Wendy; Richter, Kurt; Reigeluth, Charles; Doll, Marcelle; Moore, Julie; Hoo, Janet; Malopinsky, Larissa V. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
This section describes the systemic change experiences in Norfolk Public Schools, Chugach School District, Indianapolis Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township, Ditmas Educational Complex, Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program, Sun Microsystems, and Azerbaijan. It provides a description of the change process and discusses the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, School Districts, College School Cooperation, Technology Uses in Education
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Asayesh, Gelareh – Journal of Staff Development, 1993
Systems thinking involves seeing relationships between the parts to the whole within the school improvement effort. After providing the key principles and examples of systems thinking, the article emphasizes the importance of staff development, highlighting experiences at a Wellesley (Massachusetts) middle school and an Alaskan high school. (SM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Faculty Development, High Schools
Northern Inst. for Research, Training, and Development, Inc., Anchorage, AK. – 1978
A model is proposed for a rural industrial education outreach center which would function on a regional basis providing supportive services to several Alaskan school districts in the areas of needs assessment; identification, purchase, and distribution of instructional materials; design of competency-based programs; teacher orientation and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Budgets, Delivery Systems, Industrial Arts
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1995
In 1994, Alaska began the process of using its grant funds from the National School-to-Work Opportunities Act to design a school-to-work system to meet the following objectives: obtain commitment and involvement from Alaska's governor and officials involved in human resource development; develop an implementation plan for a statewide system to…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities
Fazio, Ernest J., Jr.; Jones, Sally Jo, Ed. – 1980
To guide Indian reservation program planners, the handbook highlights three exemplary community-based data collection efforts undertaken by Native American Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grantees to improve their planning and program development activities. Exemplary data collection activities reported include the Spokane…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Alaska Natives, American Indian Reservations, American Indians