An audiovisual communications consultant involved in planning a new facility is able to translate the needs of educators into integrated systems, and relate these to the architects and engineers in terms of working drawings, specifications, system descriptions, functional schematics, and block diagrams. (Author/MLF)

School administrators and legal experts discuss why school board decisions are increasingly vulnerable to judicial, legislative, and public review. Steps are outlined to avoid legal hassles. (Author/MLF)

A special interest group of the International Reading Association publishes a scholarly journal, "The Reading Professor: The Journal of Professors of Reading Teacher Educators." In Volume 22, No. 1, Fall 1999, the following articles are featured: "Young Children Draw Their Images of Literacy" (Roberta A. McKay and Maureen E.…

This report provides a description of a national consultation that was undertaken in 2001-2002 to provide feedback on two companion national policy documents: "National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000" and "Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health: A…

The authors explore the relationship between the academic departments of a university and the career development of its students. They develop and illustrate a counseling intervention aimed at modifying the press of a university's academic department to make its orientation more consonant with the career development needs of its students, and they…

The complexity of audiovisual equipment creates a need for impartial experienced, knowledgeable consultants to cooperate with architects to assess the needs of the users, formulate the requirements, design the system, write specifications and bid documents, assist in bid reviews and contract awards, and shepherd the job to a satisfactory…

This article presents a set of procedures and functions for the elementary school pupil personnel worker or consultant to use in facilitating school change to make the school a place for total human development through learning. (JC)

This discussion deals with how classroom observation and consultation would appear to add a desirable dimension to the way in which counselors can contribute in the schools. (JC)

This exploration of family day care was centered in a multiracial, working class area of Pasadena, Calif., and involved 22 licensed and unlicensed women who cared for a total of 143 children. (Author/CB)

Through consultation about classroom verbal interaction, the counselor can help teachers realize the extent to which the affective domain is overlooked in the classroom and can demonstrate techniques and procedures for dealing with students' emotions that should enhance learning efficiency. (Author)

A laboratory learning intervention in a new high school had a durable effect upon both faculty and students; (a) teachers exhibited greater interpersonal openness and acceptance of conflict, and (b) students saw the faculty as more receptive and themselves as more responsible and coactive, both in and out of the classroom. (Author)

It is the contention of this model that a counseling approach that focuses almost exclusively on the significant adults" or primary focus people" in a child's life will in terms of economy and efficiency address itself more successfully to the primary goal of education. (Author)

An individualized approach to instructional improvement that pairs a teaching consultant with a faculty member (Teaching Improvement Consultation Program) is described. The model uses the faculty member's experiences and thoughts about the the experiences as the starting point for examining and analyzing teaching issues and practices. (MLW)

An analysis of several schools adopting a new curriculum for math is presented. A discussion on the effectiveness of the main characters (the principal, teachers, and consultants) involved in the implementation of a new curriculum and how they affect the student's attitude to the curriculum change. (TLJ)