This report discusses use of organizational facilitators as agents for school change. Substantive change requires guidance and support from professionals with mastery level competence for creating a climate for change, facilitating change processes, and establishing an institutional culture where key stakeholders continue to learn and evolve. The…

Explores ways of presenting content and of fostering the grounding of the planned change process within the nurse's previous experience, value system, and personal characteristics. States that teaching strategies that combine experiential exercises with theory can make planned change meaningful and valuable to nurses. (NRJ)

The concepts and tools of change process research are applied to the study of evaluation utilization. In defining utilization as an innovation, evaluation use is described as a process which must be assessed at both the individual and organizational level and across time and evaluation studies. (Author/LC)

Uses results from a 1980 cross-Canada survey to develop a chart of administrator characteristics. Provides insights on being a good principal in terms of thinking, feelings and interrelationships, outward behavior characteristics, and implementing change. (AH)

The purpose of this article is to clarify critical variables in the individualizing process. These include selecting appropriate practices, dealing with the abstract, changing student behavior, and humanizing instruction. (SK)

The authors report data from a survey of perception of training from the viewpoint of the organization, the trainee, and the trainer. The article also presents a sample of the strategies traditionally available for improving these perceptions. (CT)

A package treatment program to reduce cigarette smoking was compared to a single treatment condition. Following treatment and posttesting, booster sessions were introduced. The package condition produced higher abstinence rates and lower percentages of baseline smoking after six months than other treatment conditions. Booster sessions had no…

Examines cases of residential desegregation and the effects it has on school desegregation. (MK)

Considers magnet school programs in eight cities and concludes that the integrative function of these schools is questionable. Proposes that the goal of improving educational opportunity through magnet schools effects only a small number of students. (Author/MK)

Strategies for curricular change in the reform of general education are as important as the substance of the change. Forty-three pitfalls and common errors in the process of reform are enumerated, in the areas of task force objectives and procedures, concepts of general education, program planning, proposal approval, and program implementation.…

A major task of administration is planning and implementing changes in the organization. Successful administrators must understand the reasons people resist change, use techniques for dealing with resistance, and develop appropriate change strategies. (SK)

A response to Mayo and Isralowitz's critique of the juvenile justice system, this delineates the nature and intent of proposed changes in the juvenile court system. (CM)

Tells how a weekly high school newspaper switched to a front page format built in most issues around a single story or subject; includes reproductions of the front pages of six different issues. (GT)

The history of the Congress for Change, a professional librarian's group favoring aggressive library response to societal problems, is highlighted, and its past and present objectives are reviewed. (MBR)

In order to alleviate or avoid future shock for themselves and their clients, counselors face three tasks: to become knowledgeable about future trends and needs; to assess their limitations and strengths; and to learn new coping strategies as indicated by their self-assessment process and projected client needs. (Author)