The Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program Model for K-12 career guidance has two components: (1) structural, which includes program direction, support, resources, philosophy, facilities, staffing, and budget; and (2) programmatic, consisting of guidance curriculum, individual planning, responsive services, and system support. (SK)

Describes Park City (Utah) School District's strategy for convincing its tax-resistant citizens to pass two expensive bond issues for educational facilities and technology. The key to success was a strong, broadly based, five-week campaign that focused on positively inclined voters, provided detailed information, separated ballot issues, stressed…

A transition plan offers students and parents an opportunity to become familiar with middle school's expectations, routines, curricula, classmates, and buildings before the new school year. The journey can be facilitated by surveying students about areas of concern, providing student mentors, and staging information day and transition day…

Examines whether the technicist-rational approach to school development planning, advocated in England's Office for Standards in Education guidelines, is appropriate for primary schools, based on case studies of nine schools. School staff remain unconvinced that technicist-rational planning is key to implementing change. (Contains 39 references.)…

Athabasca University has moved from mixed media course production and telephone/mail tutoring to a variety of electronic information and communication technologies for distance education. The parallel conversion of student services has been equally important to the effectiveness of these processes. The primary mandate of the process has been to…

Describes the development of an articulation agreement between community colleges and four-year schools in Maryland that benefits students in Early Childhood Education. Recounts the challenge, initiative development, the issue of mutual respect between professors, the process of developing an agreement, the agreement itself, results of the…

Describes how the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) has increased its capacity for change through strategic management and management for quality. Focuses on the development of an environment for innovative learning, experimentalism, and evaluation and benchmarking to make CBS a "learning university." (SLD)

Presents guidelines for the reform of education in Romania, a reform that is designed to bring Romanian education at all levels into line with western European practice. Romanian universities are moving from a policy of extensive development that was predominantly reparatory to a policy of scientific performance having an impact on society and…

Discusses five types of flexible block schedules used in a team-taught middle school classroom. Briefly describes the transition from traditional scheduling to block scheduling. (JPB)

Investigated compatibility between existing school-development plans and key issues in England's Office for Standards in Education (OfSTED) inspection reports and factors influencing implementation of action plans in 124 primary schools. Headteachers generally viewed their key issues as appropriate and compatible with school-development plans and…

A canceled study trip to China is used as an example of the application of crisis management planning for international programs. The following elements are discussed: crisis management team, scenario brainstorming, policy definition, moral accountability, alternative scheduling, stakeholder management, future planning, and course redesign.…

Describes how Minnesota implemented the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. Includes the timeline, rationale, potential activities and estimated costs associated with all phases, and steps for implementing the plan: investigate, replicate, integrate, and mandate. (JOW)

Data from 65 extension stakeholders engaged in forestry-related activities showed that communication barriers existed between university faculty and stakeholders. Stakeholders were not getting the information they needed, extension agents generally lacked appropriate content knowledge, and printed communications were ineffective or too technical.…

Analyzes recent developments in school development planning and whole-school evaluation in the Republic of Ireland; examines the outcomes of a recent national pilot project on whole-school evaluation conducted by the Department of Education and Science. (Contains 27 references.) (Authors/PKP)

Presents guidelines for creating a Master Planner for the school year. Highlights several factors to consider, including annual classroom projects; standardized testing dates; report card dates; special assembly programs and local/national/world events; book fairs; and end of the year activities. (AEF)