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Morris, Don – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2008
The importance of the beliefs and attitudes of teachers and building-level administrators in achieving school reform has come to be widely acknowledged. As University of Wisconsin professor Kent Peterson put it: "You can implement a good-quality improvement plan and knowledgeable, data-driven decision making, but if the [staff] doesn't…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Decision Making, Educational Change
Trismen, Donald A.; And Others – 1976
Observations were conducted in 29 elementary schools in which reading instruction had been found to be effective, as well as in classes from less effective schools, in order to determine the characteristics which were associated with effective and ineffective compensatory reading programs. The schools' membership in a cluster (partially effective,…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education