This paper presents key concepts from the theoretical literature on organizational change and school learning cultures. It concludes with eight actions school leaders can take to help school communities develop or enhance learning cultures that are receptive to change. [This report is based on a literature review by Albert J. Boerema.]

Learn how to become an effective champion for important education issues. This resource provides an in-depth look at the role of education advocates, a wide range of advocacy strategies, and real-life stories to inspire your efforts. The reader will find many tools to motivate and inform activities, such as reflection questions, an advocacy…

This report addresses governance and leadership prerequisites for implementing specific strategies essential to juvenile detention reform. Chapter 1, "Why Are Collaboration and Leadership Essential to Detention Reform?" discusses principles of collaboration and leadership that emerged from the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative…

The purpose of this book is to give student support personnel tools that: (1) will be recognized by educators as directly related to enhancing academic performance; (2) can be used with confidence that they will have the desired impact on achievement; and (3) are culturally sensitive. Chapters contain detailed presentation of the technology as…

Academic departments across the nation must reinvent new forms of collegiality and become more outward-oriented, more focused on results, and more entrepreneurial. They must develop new systems to reward their members, enhance productivity, and assure the quality of their work. Change strategies in the literature fall into six categories: (1)…

A day and a half meeting of executive directors and staff of 11 members of the National Association of Child Advocates (NACA) was convened at the request of Kansas Action for Children to inform its efforts to build a constituency for children in Kansas. Child advocates are increasingly recognizing the need to build and mobilize constituencies for…

As the whole society is experiencing a notable shift from the industrial age to the information age, an urgent need for a mindset change in education has been frequently discussed during the past decades. This paper will approach the mindset change through three interconnected sections: the first section reviews the conceptualization of mindset…

In basic agreement with an article by John Goodlad in this issue, the author briefly outlines steps a school can take to reassess its goals and formulate an improvement program. (JM)

Analyzes and classifies various forms of curriculum development strategies; reviews and summarizes their use in terms of their major characteristics and consequences; analyzes their relative merits with respect to 10 criteria; and, finally, discusses their policy implications. (MLF)

The maturity of a business is strategically important because an organization's characteristics change as it ages. Similarly, elements of the human resource program (compensation, benefits, staff development, etc.) also change as the business matures. (SK)

Subjects were assigned to conditions based on smoking rates: self-monitoring nicotine plus health hazard information; self-monitoring cigarettes plus health information; and self-monitoring cigarettes with no health information. Nicotine self-monitoring groups showed greater reactivity. Exposure to health hazard information had no effect. (Author)

The radical critique of the liberal socioeducational reform espouses an equalitarian society but does not believe it can actually exist. Structural functionalism is examined in relation to social change. (JN)

Emphasis is given to the technical and ethical issues considered in the determination of immediate, intermediate, and ultimate conflict intervention goals, as well as to the various historical interpretations of intervention goals and strategies and their implications for social change. (JCD)

Discusses ways of identifying stress and its sources and then changing it by altering behavior patterns. Guidelines are provided for implementing a stress management program. (Author/MLF)

Offers six suggestions for improving the content of high school yearbooks, including (1) ignoring past editions of the yearbook, (2) revising the production calendar, (3) discarding standard content, and (4) broadening the coverage of an event. (FL)