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Ahillen, Marybeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The context of leadership in the public school has become increasingly complex with the pressures of high stakes testing and accountability, changing student demographics, and financial challenges. Stakeholders must work together to develop effective strategies to increase student academic performance. Successful superintendents must optimize…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Duganne-Glicksman, Mary Ann; Dutton, Donna H. – 1988
This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on effective community advisory committees (CACs). The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional collaboration. Each…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Development, Community Programs, Disabilities
Carlisle, Lynn; Lesniak, Pat – 1988
This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on community advisory committee leadership training. The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional collaboration. Each…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Development, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Zeldin, Shepherd – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
Scholars theorize that engaging young people in organizational governance promotes positive youth development and organizational effectiveness. To explore this prediction, the study discussed here, based on interview data from 16 youth and 24 adult organizational leaders representing 8 organizations, mapped the developmental processes that occur…
Descriptors: Community Development, Adolescents, Teamwork, Adults
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Lakes, Richard D. – Educational Foundations, 1995
Offers four themes in the scaffolding of a critical education that advance grassroots activism in learning communities of praxis (scale, ownership, connection, and enterprise). Presents an example of a youth development project that affirms democracy via shared decision making, group motivation, self-esteem, and agenda setting opportunities…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Programs, Community Responsibility
Hubbard, Robert L.; Ennis-Applegate, Mari – 1988
This manual contains materials for a 2-week workshop to train extension staff and community leaders working at the village level in the Solomon Islands. The aim of the course is to improve participants' skills so they are better able to help communities and community groups design and manage community projects. An introduction addresses the team…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs