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An Administrator Perspective on School Libraries
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Bill Morelan – Knowledge Quest, 2024
A few months ago, the largest school district in Texas announced plans to close twenty-eight elementary and middle school libraries, claiming it was part of an effort to combat low test scores and discipline problems. Unfortunately, this troubling trend seems to be spreading. According to the author, multiple studies have shown that effective…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Decision Making, Job Layoff, Media Specialists
Predicting Abandonment of School-Wide Behavior Support Interventions
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Nese, Rhonda N. T.; McIntosh, Kent; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Ghemraoui, Adam; Bloom, Jerry; Johnson, Nanci W.; Phillips, Danielle; Richter, Mary F.; Hoselton, Robert – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study examines predictors of abandonment of evidence-based practices through descriptive analyses of extant state-level training data, fidelity of implementation data, and nationally reported school demographic data across 915 schools in 3 states implementing school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SWPBIS). Schools…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Predictor Variables, Program Termination
Keeping Our Programs Alive.
Reese, Susan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2003
Describes how one teacher fought to keep a school district's family and consumer sciences program alive when it was about to be discontinued. Includes letters written to the district superintendent and the Washington Post explaining the benefits of the program. (JOW)
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, High Schools, Middle Schools, Program Development
Back from the Brink: A Teacher's Perspective.
Lippert, Cindy – Teaching Music, 1999
Discusses the events leading up to the development of the new arts education program for the Sarasota Country School District in Florida. Addresses the work of the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts, its role in developing the arts program, and the interactions between the community and the school district. (CMK)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Middle Schools
Back from the Brink: An Administrator's Perspective.
Hamilton, Wilma – Teaching Music, 1999
Addresses the Sarasota County school district's decision to eliminate the arts programs in the elementary and middle schools. Discusses the efforts by the school district in rescuing the arts in the Sarasota schools and the superintendent's idea for creating the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts that is working for world-class arts…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Budgeting, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
Back from the Brink: The Arts in Sarasota County Schools.
Rodgers, Bruce E. – Teaching Music, 1999
Describes the community of Sarasota County in Florida (Tampa) as one in which the arts are highly valued. Explains that the Sarasota County School Board eliminated the arts program devastating Sarasota County and the surrounding areas. Introduces three articles that discuss the elimination and renewal of Sarasota County's arts program. (CMK)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Role, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
Back from the Brink: The Community's Perspective.
Rodgers, Bruce E. – Teaching Music, 1999
Addresses the role of the professional arts community in reestablishing the arts programs in the Sarasota County's schools and their interaction with the school district. Identifies how the Arts Education Task Force, a committee of arts organizations in Sarasota County, assisted in the development of the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Role, Elementary Education, Fine Arts