Highlights the strategic knowledge and skills needed by community college chief executive officers in order to lead open-door institutions and offers suggestions for gathering this information and building these skills. Considers the importance of a staff philosophy and a clear statement of staff expectations in staff development. (DMM)

Studies show a lack of evaluation as a fundamental element of curriculum design in further education. To this end, a model is proposed and its advantages outlined. The importance of relevant evaluative skills as objectives within college staff development programs is discussed. (CT)

A mobile interdisciplinary consultation and training team trained residential staff in behavior modification and program development. Involvement of top and middle administration as well as of direct care staff was critical to program success. Training emphasized active and direct methods, emphasized maintenance, and confronted political/social…

To generate support and improve efficiency of school support staff, weekly workshops in one Florida school district addressed previously assessed needs among the staff. (JW)

Describes the training program for hospital personnel at Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Emphasizes the importance of improving the communication skills of health care employees. (PD)

A new typology suggests staff development guidelines for helping educators work more effectively with ethnically and racially diverse groups of students. (Author)

Organizations must recognize that training and development managers can and should play a role in organizational problem-solving. They can be quite effective in directing the jury technique of analyzing and solving unexpected contingencies. (Author)

This study evaluated a program that was designed to empower staff members form nonprofit organizations to design evaluations that help further their organizational mission, addressing the needs of their clients more effectively and efficiently. In 2001-200, the program was offered in five bimonthly, 2-day sessions. Twenty participants from 10…

Professional development from the school system's point of view is a planned, comprehensive, and systemic program designed by a school system to improve all school personnel's ability to design, implement, and assess productive change in each individual and in the school organization. This booklet provides an overview of and strategies to…

This program was developed and implemented to identify, inservice and coach elementary art teachers who did not have pre or post graduate discipline based art education (DBAE) training. The reason this training was important is because the district has written and adopted a kindergarten through twelfth grade DBAE art curriculum. The objectives for…

A companion report provided a summary of what was learned from surveys of principals and staff developers about the newly created position of staff developer in the middle schools of the San Diego City Schools, California. This study investigated the spring followup study that asked teachers what they thought about the new position and the work of…

Education Matters, with the agreement of the Edna Clark McConnell Foundation and two San Diego City, California, middle schools, has been studying the ways in which these two schools have been organizing professional development to improve teaching and learning in the context of San Diego's reform agenda. The Clark Foundation had awarded funds for…