Outlines how to develop productive staff meetings that foster professional staff development. Three steps to follow include developing a staff development committee, designing a long-range staff development plan, and planning staff meetings that become a lesson in themselves. (MD)

Describes an innovative way for school districts to develop their own source of effective teachers to replace those who retire or leave. Norwalk-La Mirada School District (California) created a staff development plan using an exceptional principal, five "group leader" teachers, and a coordinator to train and certify excellent teachers…

The Reading Recovery Program, a staff development process providing teachers with a framework for observing teaching and learning, requires close observation and analysis of children in the process of reading and staff development team members to observe each other as they work with children. (CB)

Discusses managers as staff developers. Describes three managerial types: (1) high structure, low interest; (2) low structure, high interest; and (3) high structure, high interest. Presents guidelines for improving the staff development process. (CH)

Provides some direction on how mental health counselors can begin delivering staff development workshops to outside agencies. (Author/ABB)

A new computer program designed to reach out into the community as well as train students, faculty, and staff includes a built-in evaluation program. (MD)

Two studies focused on the effectiveness of the self-management strategies of formulating plans and correspondence training in training residential care staff working with children who have behavior and learning difficulties. (CL)

The Adaptive Learning Environments Program can provide appropriate individualized instruction to students of all ability levels. The program has undergone more than a decade of development and data-based testing. (MLF)

Describes a pilot staff development project at Christie School, a residential center with a capacity for 38 emotionally disturbed children. (RH)

Taking into account teachers' lives inside and outside school, makes suggestions for staff development in four areas: (1) keeping healthy, (2) building self-esteem, (3) managing time, and (4) developing realistic options for change. Suggestions are based on a study in which most teachers described their experiences with staff development as…

Responding to the the McFaul and Cooper article on peer clinical supervision, the author points out that their negative findings could have resulted from inadequate research design. (MD)

This document provides feedback on the second phase of the initiative to reward and develop staff in higher education. It includes a preliminary analysis of institutions' human resource (HR) strategies and lists the higher education institutions (HEIs) that have submitted strategies classified as full or full with conditions. In 2001, institutions…

The selections in this book address the concept and nature of academic development and examine research into and within the field. Following an introduction, "Developing a Scholarship of Academic Development: Setting the Context," by Ranald Macdonald, the chapters of part 1, "Conceptualizing Academic Development," are: (2)…

The school principal has a key role in working with teachers to enhance the school as a learning community. Chapter 1 discusses the standards that emanate from such organizations as the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and that serve as a basis for designing staff…

An extensive, three-year inservice training model is described as implemented MACOS in a elementary social studies program. (KM)