To maximize comprehensive school health education, professional preparation would include a focusing component that integrates elements of the comprehensive school health model and develops the leadership and management capabilities of potential school health leaders. The article describes how to integrate the comprehensive school health model and…

Two key principles in recognizing, empowering, and tapping the potential of "behind-the-scenes" college and university employees are discussed: finding leaders among them and linking the role of backstage employees to the core mission of the institution. A third and essential ingredient is administrative consistency in applying these principles.…

Discusses concerns about the current state of elementary school reading programs. Suggests specific ways these programs may be improved for the benefit of children and society. Discusses priority of reading in the schools, beginning reading programs, remedial reading programs, staff development programs, and the incidence and quality of…

Results are reported for an evaluative study of a multidistrict innovation in Pennsylvania that instituted a teacher peer-coaching program across multiple school districts. The program, which promotes peer-coaching teams through workshops, flourished in schools where there was good staff development and high administrative support. (SLD)

Discusses ways to achieve peak performance in academic libraries by emphasizing staff development. Highlights include self-assessment; conflict of commitment; self-absorption; institutional loyalty; focusing on the future; and understanding the library's strategic plan, mission statement, and policies. (AEF)

Provides an overview of a district-wide computer network created by the Mankato (Minnesota) public school district that allows all its staff and students full Internet access. Includes the goals, scope, and history of the project; provides a technical overview and cost analysis; and projects future directions. (Author/LRW)

Focuses on the issues that arise when school professionals are required to report child abuse and neglect. Reviews the duties and immunities arising under state reporting statutes and the reporting practices and perceptions of school staff. Recommends an increase in staff education and federal establishment of the scope of the definition of child…

Uses a case study approach to determine how a rural supervisory union school district and its communities attempted to improve the union's economic feasibility and address important school needs. Efforts appear to have resulted in greater teacher involvement, commitment, and ownership of subsequent changes and promotion of teachers to…

This paper analyzes the implementation of a staff development and appraisal scheme at the University of Birmingham, England. The analysis focuses on the stakeholders and the decisive factors that were influential in effecting this innovation. Explored are three perspectives on leadership on how appraisers can become more effective. (GLR)

The Center for Instructional Technology and Training was created by the Washington, DC, public schools in 1983 to provide inservice technology training free of charge to teachers, administrators, and clerical and building staff. The development of the successful program is described and sidebars report what teachers and principals say about it and…

In contrast to noncollaborative relationships, collaborative partnerships have low role certainty, high work intensity, and personal and institutional interdependence. The Dayton Science Project (a university/school/community partnership to redesign and test K-12 science curriculum at 6 professional development schools) is discussed. Collaborative…

Although teachers can gain as much as students from practicing conflict resolution procedures, they often remain unconvinced about benefits unless they actually try them. Drawing on experimental programs in Pittsburgh and New York City, this article describes the basics of moving adults from conflict to collaboration. Morton Deutsch's sidebar…

Use of subject-generated elaborations taught through embedded and detached training strategies was compared with experimenter-provided elaborations (or no elaborations) in a computer-based instruction unit taken by 80 administrative assistants. Results favor use of subject-generated elaborations, particularly when taught by embedded training. (SLD)

A three-year program at Bethel College (Minnesota) has introduced faculty to various models of college student development, including the reflective judgment model of intellectual development, and their instructional applications. Knowledge of student development, now common to faculty and staff, has had a profound impact on teaching, learning,…

For the past 18 months, a middle school in Bowie, Maryland, has been enthusiastically committed to change. Teachers have become catalysts, realizing they possessed the skills and abilities to remedy schooling problems. They confronted school failure through school-based management, self-actualizing activities, staff development, and professional…