Block scheduling and intensive or extended-time scheduling have been appearing in high schools across the United States. This guidebook is designed to help each school find the best route to achieve this organizational change. The book's premise is that structural change in schools is not sufficient to create meaningful educational improvement.…

This report, an update of the National Coalition for Technology Education and Training's (NCTET) 1994 "National Information Infrastructure Requirements for Education and Training," is intended to serve as a guide for national and state policy makers and planners concerned with the role of technology in education. It begins with a review…

This document presents the Strategic Plan and Academic Development Plan for Kapi'olani Community College (KCC) (Hawaii). In addition to its liberal arts transfer mission, KCC offers the state's only programs in Health Sciences and Legal Education and the only community college nursing programs on Oahu. The goals in the Strategic Plan document…

The newsletters of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) (California) provide commission news and discussions on current issues and policies regarding institutional accreditation. The January 2000 issue states that recent annual reports submitted by member institutions to ACCJC have revealed confusion about what…

This document is Chancellor Thomas Nussbaum's speech at the fall 2000 California Community Colleges (CCC) Leadership Conference. He states that CCC is united in its commitment to open access--that every student who has the capacity and motivation to benefit from educational programs will have access to colleges. As part of the 2005 Strategic…

The goal of this book is to provide caregivers with interventions, treatment options, and treatment plans for teaching aggressive youth how to replace unhealthy, anti-social, and destructive behaviors with healthy, socially acceptable, and safe behaviors. The first part of the book defines what aggression is and introduces and discusses two…

This document describes the goals, objectives and actions taken to update the Santa Monica College (CA) Master Plan for Technology as administered under the District Technology Committee. A number of principles were agreed upon as the basis for development between 1998 and 2000. Among those principles included were: technical training and…

This paper examines the School Management Initiative that Hong Kong implemented in 1991. It discusses some of the difficulties encountered by school teachers as they tried to implement annual school plans and also describes some of the useful techniques that were introduced into schools. They key problems identified in schools included the absence…

These medium-term plans have been produced to support, but not prescribe, teachers' planning. They exemplify ways in which England's National Literacy Strategy (NLS) Framework objectives (and the Early Learning Goals) can be clustered. The Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 medium term plans cluster the NLS text, sentence and word level objectives into…

This paper describes the College of Applied Science and Arts (ASA) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) Transfer and New Students Info Web site that responds to the need for high school and community college students, guidance counselors, and parents to explore and plan a program of study that provides the opportunity to enter the…

Educators must adapt the way they think about change if they and their students are to see the benefits of instructional technology. This new paradigm is called systemic change, and combines general systems theory and what has traditionally been called diffusion of innovations. This paper explores some of the lessons it holds for integration of…

This report presents the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District information systems technology plan. It outlines the following five global objectives: (1) develop an information technology infrastructure to support and facilitate administration, instruction, and student services; (2) establish electronic communications as the basis for…

Devising appropriate service delivery for gifted individuals is never an easy task and is especially challenging in rural areas. Characteristics of rural schools may be both barriers and benefits to gifted education. Limited numbers may mean that programming options for gifted students are unfeasible, but small schools and classes make…

This report illustrates how the Third UNESCO-ACEID (Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development) International Conference provided ideas and case studies on key aspects of educational innovation for sustainable development. At the conference there were over 20 paper presentations from invited regional and international experts, almost…

This booklet provides information designed for individuals who are involved in the transition planning process both for persons with deaf-blindness and for persons with other disabilities. The purpose of the guide is to introduce common misperceptions encountered during transition planning, components of transition planning, and the transition…