Outlines a four-phase approach that a yearbook business staff can use to interest the student body in buying copies of the yearbook. (Second of a four-part article.) (GT)

A successful effort to raise reading achievement in the Denver schools illustrates key factors in educational change. (Author)

Contains a selection of abstracts from the ERIC system concerning management development programs in community colleges. (MB)

A hypothetical urban school system is described to illustrate a method of response to the issues of equal educational opportunity, desegregation, staff training and retraining, increasing urban costs, emerging power groups, bureaucratic stagnation, decentralization, and student growth. (MB)

Final of a six part series discusses the idea that the reputation and credibility of training and development is much lower outside the training community than within it. Urges organizational trainers and developers to prove cost effective contributions to their organizations. (LAS)

Seminar report and recommendations of the Ontario Society for Training and Development's Professional Development Committee on competencies needed by professional training and development personnel, including checklists of skills and abilities in the various competency areas. (MF)

Presented in the third and final article in a series are strategies for personal survival in chaotic and stressful environments such as those encountered by staff working in hearing and speech agencies. (IM)

A survey of community-based organizations in Malaysia determined that there was strong support for public library sponsored community information services (CIS). This article examines CIS activity in Malaysia; analyzes the survey findings; and proposes a program of action for developing a prototype CIS model and CIS guidelines and designing a…

Describes how to use knowledge about adult learners and about different learning styles (environmentally, emotionally, sociologically, and physiologically) when planning and implementing staff development. (SR)

Discusses the importance of teaching communication skills to individuals with severe disabilities and reviews the development and evaluation of Developing Communicative Interactions, a data-based staff training program that supports the development of a prescribed set of interaction skills by interacting communication partners. (Author/CR)

Describes a University of Alabama program that trained a cadre of elementary teachers to use various manipulatives in their daily mathematics programs. These teachers received a set of manipulatives to share with others and were expected to conduct inservice programs for colleagues. The program increased use of manipulative materials and revealed…

Successful human resource strategic planning at colleges and universities requires that: (1) outcomes contribute to the bottom line; (2) the plan is linked to the institution's long-term strategy; and (3) the plan is simple to understand and follow. Staff retreats are essential and should involve environmental analysis, departmental analysis,…

The role of instructional coach is being piloted in four schools within the Department of Defense Dependents Schools system. One teacher from each school is appointed as an instructional coach for teachers in the building to provide a range of services leading to improved instruction and student achievement. This collegial/instructional coaching…