School leaders at every level must be committed to a comprehensive teacher and administrator recruitment plan that increases the pool of applicants. Strategies for contacting candidates, selling the district, facilitating the application process, screening candidates, and employing and inducting those selected are outlined. (MLH)

Presents an overview of the changes in the structures of the new National Health Service in England, Scotland, and Wales and discusses the effects these changes will have on counselors working in primary care. Addresses the issue of supervision. Discusses the requirements of clinical governance and the necessity of appropriate audit and evaluation…

Describes how two partnerships have applied nine principles of good partnership to move beyond funding setbacks, including grant application rejections, to implement programs and make partnership progress. Experiences of the Marion Area Partnership, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, and the Partners for Progress in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, show how…

Describes the distance education efforts of the World Bank, which has spent $20 million since 1997 to get its distance education program started, and which plans to spend an additional $10 million in the next 2 years. The World Bank has the experience and resources to set up and deliver distance education in countries without a telecommunications…

Seven Circles is a substance abuse prevention coalition in Southeast Alaska with a two-tiered structure consisting of local partnerships joined together in a regional coalition. Describes the results of surveys designed to assess the development and implementation of youth/adult partnerships. Results support the youth/adult partnership model and…

Answers the questions: (1) How did Technology and Invention in Elementary Schools (TIES) training affect science classroom instruction?; (2) What lessons did teachers learn from their implementation of an Invention Convention in their own classroom?; and (3) What did the TIES teachers' students teach their teachers about science teaching?…

This article provides a use plan for instituting and maintaining a successful chore and allowance program for children. Specific guidelines are outlined regarding how to teach children basic money management skills. Explicit examples are offered for teaching these skills that can be easily adopted by parents and clinicians who specialize in…

Briefly describes the contents of "K-12 School Technology Best Practices," a recently published 500-page book for those involved in making technology decisions; briefly summarizes the book's four sections on technology planning, funding, implementation, and management. Gives the price of the book and where it can be purchased. (PKP)

Compares the assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses of seven approaches frequently used in the public sector to involve large numbers of people in planning and implementing change. The approaches are real-time strategic change, search conferences, future searches, strategic options development and analysis, strategic choice, technology of…

A caring, effective style of classroom management has transformed a Chicago elementary school. The Responsive Classroom approach acknowledges children's need to feel pleasure and significance as members of a classroom community via morning meetings, rules and logical consequences, guided discovery, classroom organization, academic choice, and…

Defines a virtual team as a group of people who are working on the same business issue but are located at different geographic sites and rely mainly on some form of technology to facilitate the work discussion. Discusses benefits of virtual teams, including reduced travel costs and organizational efficiency; defining roles; selecting technology…

Describes the development of the Assessment Standards for technological literacy, the second phase of the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. (JOW)

Study of the effect of middle-school Internet-enhanced atmospheric science program on student learning. Uses results of verbal analysis of discourse between students and scientists in electronic messages and data from teacher survey and interviews. Finds that student's understanding of atmospheric science is enhanced. (Contains 37 references.)…

This article highlights basic issues that have hindered e-learning systems from becoming the revolutionary force it could be for education. While current systems aim to foster significant improvements in learning, this article argues that most systems are still limited to just being online repositories. This and the lack of learning…

This article presents an excerpt from "Moving into the Future: National Standards for Physical Education. Second Edition." The purpose of the excerpt and the document as a whole is to present content standards for what a student should know and be able to do as a result of a quality physical education program. The K-12 National Physical Education…