The Institute for Development of Educational Activities (/I/D/E/A/) School Improvement Program (SIP) is based upon a school-based approach to staff development and school improvement program known as the Readiness, Planning, Training, Implementation, and Maintenance (RPTIM) Model. There are five stages to the RPTIM Model: (1) readiness, dealing…

This is an advance planning guide aimed at helping Chicago Public School principals carry out a school action plan, Academy for Effective Schools, in the 1984-85 school year. It suggest ways that schools can build on the school goals and practices established in previous plans. The terminology of the planning cycle is similar to that used in the…

The changes necessary for creating a quality school can best be made in a positive organizational climate because any real change requires the active involvement of people in the organization, who will not participate unless they are highly satisfied with their work environment. Such an open, facilitating, nurturing environment can only be…

Professional development of faculty is a more inclusive term than "faculty development," since it connotes concern for improving the conditions of student learning, awareness of changes in the role of the teacher and involvement with the health of the institution. The idea of professional development generates responses along a…

Strategies for implementing instructional improvement programs must consider institutional characteristics, needs assessment, program and organizational objectives, and the characteristics of the instructional improvement program. Checklists, tables, and matrices are presented to illustrate the cyclical nature of the process of program development…

This monograph speaks to the general problem of helping schools improve their effectiveness and specifically is concerned with the nature of strategies most appropriate for use by university-based research and development personnel. The purpose is to identify and describe some of the more important features of effective, clinically oriented…

The activities and requirements listed in this paper are meant to be implemented over a three year period. The key activities of the three year cycle are described as: (1) the establishment of a school renewal program in the first year; (2) the transition of the program to a local city in the second year; and (3) institutionalization of the…

STUDIES INDICATE THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE THINKING OF "THE" DROPOUT, BUT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DROPOUTS IN NEED OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS AND AID AT DIFFERENT TIMES. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE "HIGH ASPIRERS" AND THE "RETURNEES" ARE GIVEN AS SPECIFIC EXAMPLES. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS TO ACCEPT THE NEEDED…

A total of 150 overweight female subjects entered a behavior modification weight loss program with extension home economists as therapists to determine the feasibility of state extension services as a vehicle for widespread dissemination of behavioral weight loss programs. The treatment, emphasizing stimulus control and nutrition education,…

A survey was conducted to analyze library facilities and services in 60 Florida state institutions and to make recommendations for improvement. Included in the study are descriptions of the institutions and a report and recommendations for each library. Results of question aires and visits show that institutional library service is inadequate,…

This current directory lists alphabetically by state, special projects funded by the Title II Nurse Training Act of the Health Manpower Act of 1968, which are awarded for improvement programs in nurse training. Projects funded through June 1971 are listed and briefly annotated, including planning grants awarded for the first time during the fiscal…

A comparative analysis of the planning processes on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Indian reservations in South Dakota is presented in this master's thesis. The planning process is basically the same as is utilized in planning for a city, county, or region, but the problems facing reservation planning bodies are greater due to the greater…

Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) offers a means both to improve services to children and to help communities "get it all together." In this modern society, community life is so complex that coordination and mobilization of resources are a must if the necessary social tasks are to get done...like seeing that all children receive good care,…

An informal non-credit course in anxiety management offered by the author is described. The primary emphasis of this course is on self-hypnosis. Participating students are encouraged to increase their skills in relaxing and concentrating by three methods: (1) eye fixation; (2) muscular relaxation; and (3) focusing of awareness. Other techniques…

This report summarizes the management support activities of Education Turnkey Systems, Inc. for the O.E.O. Performance Incentive Remedial Education Experiment. Included are sections on the implementation, the monitoring, and the implications of this experiment that tested performance contracting as a technique of instruction in public school…