This report addresses reorganizing staff training efforts in the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina. Training includes both formal workshops and more informal growth opportunities for staff. Data sources for the report include surveys or focus groups from principals and central school district staff, a review of national…

Based on the belief that teaching involves a lifelong cyclical process of study, practice, and reflection, this handbook details the staff development opportunities for prekindergarten personnel in Dade County, Florida for 1997-98. Procedures, workshops, explanatory descriptions, and scheduling information for staff development are presented in…

The 20 chapters of this guide to custodial staffing in educational facilities are grouped into five parts addressing: (1) staffing, (2) evaluation, (3) special considerations, (4) staff development tools, and (5) case studies. The five chapters on staffing are all by Jack C. Dudley and are titled: "General Methods"; "The Mathematics of Change";…

Staff members at Appalachian State University are going to school in a new self-improvement course leading to a higher degree. (Editor)

Discusses the role of the Office of Staff and Organization Development of Miami-Dada Junior College-North in coordinating the professional growth of their staff. (Editor/RK)

The director of teacher education organizes and supervises the student teaching program; organizes and supervises new-teacher workshops and appropriate staff development activities for all personnel; and acts as liaison between the Fort Worth Independent School District and teacher education institutions. (Author/CB)

The Improving Teaching Competencies Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory is developing twenty-four instructional systems for professional development of educators. (Author)

This district in suburban St. Louis, is moving from a spotty and optional staff development effort to a well-defined one based on concepts adapted from systems theory. (Author/CB)

The program of the Department of Staff Development in the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district is described. (CB)

Use of state funds for individual faculty and departmental improvement in the public junior colleges is discussed in terms of a planning philosophy, a plan description, and approaches to implementation. (JO)

Betty Dillon-Peterson, the director of staff development for the Lincoln (Nebraska) schools, relates key experiences which shaped her career and also her views about how staff developers can work effectively. She advocates design of a special course of study for staff developers. (PP)

A survey of staff development specialists found that, while a few individuals had formal training for their positions, most learned from informal mentors and role models. Shortcomings in their training are noted, and options for improving professional training are discussed. (PP)

"Workparties," sponsored by the Teachers Centers' Exchange (Far West Laboratory), provide the time, support, resources, warmth, concreteness, and thought that productive meetings consist of. Descriptions of workparties planned for participants interested in staff development are provided. (CJ)

The author outlines a career employment model for hospital nurses and addresses the issues and challenges in the orientation and inservice education component of the model. (CT)

A training program taught community people to work with parents of rural preschool children at risk for handicaps. Paraprofessionals received nine days of preservice instruction and a weekly inservice session on such topics as child development, assessment, and teaching strategies. Results have shown positive signs in children, parents, and…