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Download full textSmith, Christopher A. – 1984
This manual provides step-by-step directions for developing an inservice staff training program in a rehabilitation facility. The manual is organized in five chapters. Following an introduction that defines inservice training, the first chapter discusses inservice problem identification procedures (conduct a needs assessment and determine present…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Resources, Improvement Programs
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1986
A nine-member Future of Teaching Committee, appointed by the State Board of Education in October of 1985, suggests a sweeping set of recommendations to provide 20,000 new teacher replacements in Michigan's public school classrooms in the next several years. An overview is presented of the Committee's recommendations to the Governor, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Crohn, Leslie; Nelson, Steven R. – 1986
Alternative models of rural school improvement consortia were identified through a review of research literature in order to determine what existing models were applicable to rural school consortia in the northwest United States. Organization structure of rural school collaboratives and characteristics associated with successful functioning were…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
King, Alvy L.; And Others – 1984
The Ways to Improve Schools and Education Project (WISE) seeks to enhance school staff knowledge and skills through appropriate staff development adapted from local business and industry. Project WISE FY84 is an outgrowth of project accomplishments in FY83, which included a pilot test of collaborative school-business partnerships at three sites.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Inservice Education
Marshall, Ann – 1982
PRISM, the Pittsburgh Research-Based Instructional Supervisory Model, was initiated when the superintendent convened an Instructional Leadership Committee (ILC) to develop a plan for improving instruction and instructional leadership within the district. The Pittsburgh Public Schools' Learning Research Development Center then conducted a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Anderson, Shirley – 1983
Papers are presented which were generated by this workshop on school improvement. Both session and panel presentations are included on school effectiveness research, curriculum alignment for school improvement, a school climate improvement project, the McRel school improvement program, Pennsylvania's long-range planning for school improvement, an…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
Everson, Susan T. – 1983
Drawing upon research findings on school effectiveness, the McREL School Improvement Program was designed to examine critically such factors as school leadership, building organization, school climate and environment, and how citizens and parents are encouraged to participate in raising morale and effectiveness. Focus is upon instructional…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Chin, R.; And Others – 1981
This is Volume I of a two-volume report of a study on the exchange and use of knowledge for school improvement in three paired educational systems in Boston, Massachusetts. The pairings, which involved the collaboration of a college/university with one or more of the Boston public schools, were among 26 such collaborative arrangements mandated by…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
Genova, William J. – 1981
This is the Executive Summary of a 1979-81 study of factors and conditions that affect the exchange and use of knowledge for school improvement in three collaborative systems in which a college/university was paired with one or more public schools in Boston, Massachussetts. The pairings were among 26 such collaborative arrangements mandated bv…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
South Carolina Governor's Office, Columbia. – 1984
In 1984 the General Assembly of South Carolina passed the Education Improvement Act of 1984--the "New Approach", a comprehensive educational reform measure. The following action initiatives were mandated: (1) increase academic standards; (2) strengthen student discipline and attendance in the schools; (3) provide more effective use of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Wood, Kenneth N. – 1978
The Centering-Venturing workshop program at Davidson College in North Carolina, designed to help students identify personal strengths and skills, is reviewed. The program includes an orientation meeting at which connections and integrations between different facets of self and between self and environment are presented, and four workshop sessions…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Improvement Programs
Nearine, Robert J. – 1981
Higher Horizons (HH) 100 is a program providing groups of 100 underachieving secondary school students in Hartford, Connecticut, with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services designed to develop and improve their basic skills in language and mathematics, self-concept, and adjustment to school. The eight small cluster…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Counseling Services, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Knapper, Christopher K. – 1978
This paper on instructional development notes the trend toward teaching improvement efforts, classifies instructional development centers in terms of their differing philosophies of operation, and identifies some general problems that have been encountered in institutional efforts to improve teaching and learning. Centers in North America, Europe,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Consultation Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Miyataki, Glenn K. – 1978
The need to focus upon the organizational factors and consequences of a technological innovation is discussed and the outcome of the pilot implementation of the Academic Unit Planning Manual (AUPM) are reported. The primary intent of the AUPM, a tool developed at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), is to assist…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, College Administration, Educational Planning
McManis Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1978
The purpose of this report is to provide an in-depth view of the impact of involvement in the Advanced Institutional Development Program (AIDP) on institutions of higher education. The study consists of three major evaluation elements, which are presented after an introductory section of conclusions, recommendations, and future implications which…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities Improvement
