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Leatt, Desmond J. – OSSC Bulletin, 1987
This bulletin reports on five high schools that have effective, comprehensive student leadership programs. First, it reviews ways in which student councils can enrich students' lives. In addition to having a positive effect on students' success in school and later life, involvement in student activity programs influences the way that students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, High Schools, Leadership Training
Beswick, Richard – OSSC Bulletin, 1992
Although there has been reluctance to support direct methods of teaching moral values and character traits, due in part to lack of consensus about whose values should be taught, a national call to rethink that trend has begun to be heard. An up-to-date account is provided of the recommendations of the Oregon State Board of Education to mandate…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
O'Connor, Patrick J. – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin describes two exemplary mathematics programs in Oregon: the Math Lab at Mountain View Junior High School in Beaverton and the Academy Math Program at Jefferson High School in northeastern Portland. The Math Lab at Mountain View is a weekly supplemental unit that is integrated into general math and pre-algebra courses for seventh and…
Descriptors: Business Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, High Risk Students, Mathematics Curriculum
O'Connor, Patrick J. – OSSC Bulletin, 1986
This bulletin examines wellness programs and what they mean to Oregon educators. The opening sections describe what is meant by "wellness" and trace the growth of wellness programs in Oregon to the annual Seaside Health Education Conference. To illustrate how wellness programs operate, the next two sections describe how two Oregon school…
Descriptors: Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Activities, Health Education
DuBois, Donald W. – OSSC Bulletin, 1980
Oregon Senate Bill 354 has required each school district in Oregon to develop a teacher evaluation plan that would include job descriptions, performance standards, observations, postevaluation, and a written program of assistance, if needed. The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES) has drawn some conclusions about teacher effectiveness that…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Pheasant, Marilyn – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin describes a first-grade "readiness program" developed at the Aumsville (Oregon) School District to help children who have been found to be at risk in a standard first-grade program. These students attend a readiness first grade designed to assist their development emotionally, socially, physically, and academically and only…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Pheasant, Marilyn – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin highlights elements of the music programs in two Oregon school districts--David Douglas School District 40 and Salem School District 24J--that have kept these programs viable in spite of financial constraints. Ingredients for success of the overall music program at David Douglas are first described. Important elements include hiring…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
