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Robbins, Sarah, Ed. – National Writing Project (NJ1), 2011
To maintain their commitment to a site, teachers need truly meaningful work. Teacher leadership drives the work of the Writing Project. The narratives in this collection, written by three veteran teacher-consultants, demonstrate many ways in which teacher leadership builds the capacity of any National Writing Project (NWP) site to do its work.…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Training, National Programs
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Kendall, Cindy; Montgomery, Cherise; Rosenbusch, Marcia – Learning Languages, 2008
In order to help teachers negotiate the changing contexts of foreign language education, the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at Iowa State University began offering summer institutes in 1994. The authors were surprised at the intense interest in the institutes focused on technology. Since then the NFLRC has offered 36…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Second Languages, Educational Opportunities, Faculty Development
Myers, Robert B. – 1965
The objectives of the program were to assist 24 teams averaging five leaders per team to plan the strategy and procedures of desegregation in their school systems. This was accomplished by being briefed on the provisions of the Civil Rights Bill, by analyzing the problems incident to desegregation in their own school system, and by formulating…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Gross, Ronald – College Board Review, 1988
Leaders of lifelong learning programs convene at Harvard each June for two weeks of learning, reflection, self-renewal, networking, planning, and camaraderie. The Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education is described, along with its curriculum themes of adult as a developing and learning person, institutional management, and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, College Administration, Continuing Education
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Sack, Jacqueline J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
This narrative inquiry weaves Schwab's commonplaces of curriculum and Clandinin, Pushor, and Murray Orr's narrative commonplaces through stories of conflict between a professional developer and 30 high school lead teachers. In her role as manager of a mathematics leadership institute situated between two urban public school districts and a…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Leadership, Professional Development, Leaders
Dickey, Kathleen; Hirabayashi, Judy; Murray, Allison; St. John, Mark; Stokes, Laura; Senauke, Laurie – Inverness Research Associates, 2004
This report presents results of a study completed in fall 2004 by Inverness Research Associates on behalf of the National Writing Project (NWP). The study was designed to satisfy a U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) requirement that programs assess participants' satisfaction with their professional development experiences, and also assess the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Participant Satisfaction, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
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Secor, Cynthia – New Directions for Higher Education, 1984
Women who wish to advance in higher education need expertise both in managing its administrative and governance structures and in managing their own careers. The Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration is described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Guidance, College Administration, Curriculum Development
Jensen, Glenn S. – 1969
A project to improve the leadership competency of personnel responsible for program development and implementation in ABE is presented. The intent of the program planners was to help the ABE administrator discover new patterns of need, to search for new teaching formats and content, and to reassess the relationships which exist in the world of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Educational Planning, Educational Programs