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Education Administration (EdAd) and Capacity for School Improvement: Restructuring Public Education.
Download full textAchilles, C. M. – 2003
This essay discusses professional development as a capacity-building strategy. It raises questions about various approaches to capacity building, including the emphasis on professional development. It states that despite self-reports and surveys, scant, if any, replicable empirical evidence relates professional development to changes in teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1990
Among 17 conclusions and recommendations of a study on current policies and procedures related to campus safety at Florida institutions of higher education are the following: (1) there is a need for an expanded definition or additional category of crime for recording incidents involving students, either as victims or perpetrators, that occur in…
Descriptors: Campuses, Crime, Crime Prevention, Higher Education
Project B.E.S.T.: Better Educational Systems through Telecommunications. Phase I. Evaluation Report.
Burke, Michael A.; Garrard, Susan – 1989
This report summarizes the pilot-year (1988-89) activities of a project in the Green Bay Area (Wisconsin) Public School District which provides educational programming via an ITFS (Instructional Television Fixed Service) system. The goal of the project was to expand opportunities for staff development, staff communication, and resource sharing…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Distance Education, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
California Univ., Santa Barbara. University Library. – 1986
This document describes an investigation of the adequacy of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library's organizational structure, organizational climate, staffing patterns, training, career development, and communication to meet the needs of a postulated public services environment of 5 to 10 years in the future. Discussion of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Charts, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Rogus, Joseph F. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1986
Suggests ways of addressing challenges faced by district library media supervisors by focusing energies on those departmental outcomes likely to make greatest difference in lives of staff and students. Taking care of self, setting and honoring priorities, working from staff development perspective, and effective skill teaching are highlighted. (8…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Administration
Whalon, Constance; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1993
A multicultural framework for school curricula directed toward the culturally different was developed for implementation of court ordered multicultural education goals at the H. S. Thompson Learning Center of the Dallas (Texas) Independent School District. The philosophy of multicultural education suggests that ethnic diversity and cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student)
Winkler, John D.; And Others – 1986
This report describes the results of a national survey of computer supervisors in 155 public school districts that currently own microcomputers. Data from this survey were used to examine the incentive value of a variety of administrative computer policies for encouraging more widespread participation by teachers in inservice training and use of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
