Construction management on educational facility projects provides boards of education with documentation showing the project is on track. Eight "myths" surrounding construction management are explained. (MLF)

Many obstacles persist in interdisciplinary approaches to professional education, including distinct and sometimes incompatible professional ideologies, fear of loss of rigor, absence of a common language, and lack of interest in the professions themselves. (MSE)

Training teachers in collegiality during the teacher education program, an approach to counter teacher isolation, is described. Such programs should accommodate and encourage dialogue among prospective teachers. One example of how teacher educators are striving to foster such collegial relationships is given. (Author/CB)

Suggestions are made about the type of information that educators should obtain from and communicate to health care providers and issues that may enhance effective communication with those in the health system. (Author/CL)

Investigated trust perceptions of 155 male and female respondents toward on-site supervisors, area supervisors, and top management in a large state agency. Although trust differences between men and women toward management were not found, respondents reporting to someone of the same gender had significantly higher trust in their superior. (JAC)

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This report includes observations from the first year of a three-year study of seven small high schools (that exist in converted comprehensive high schools) in Washington State. It discusses the unique characteristics of professional communities that are emerging and examines how these communities are changing teachers expectations for their…

The role of the school principal in a community of learners is discussed. A "community of learners" refers to a group of individuals with common interests who share ideals and learn from each other. The principal must work with teachers, providing support and receiving support in helping students achieve optimal results. A community of learners…

This paper examines how collaborative partnership roles are defined in an educational community. The central research question is: in situations where reading instruction is presented through a literature-based approach and library instruction is supported through a resource-based approach, how is the teacher-librarian partnership enacted in a…

E-mentoring is the merger of mentoring with electronic communications and has been termed telementoring, cybermentoring, or virtual mentoring. By leveraging the growth in information technology, electronic mentoring provides opportunities for mentoring prohibited by face-to-face mentoring programs. Yet, the ease with which e-mentoring programs can…

Discusses the problem that quite often unusually qualified personnel from the academic standpoint are unprepared for administrative positions and can only solve these problems by way of the trying school of experience and its attendant mistakes. The author offers a system to develop various abilities to achieve solution of this problem. (EK)

The need for closer working relationships between the two branches of counseling emphasize the need to appraise present curricula in order to identify areas of overlap. (Author)

Explores some of the sources of discord between attorneys and therapists often involved by the same clients in divorce cases, and suggests that differences in masculine and feminine styles are in part responsible for the difficulty they have in working together. (Author/JAC)

The majority of 197 respondents to a survey on mentoring among home economists indicated a single significant influence on their professional career development. The majority reported having female role models, but noted a lack of assistance in acquiring specific professional skills. (SK)