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Green, Beth; Everhart, Maria C.; Gordon, Lynwood; Friesen, Barbara – Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2004
The focus of this training is on understanding ways to design and implement an overall mental health strategy in your program. The authors are not going to talk about specific intervention strategies, such as how to deal with challenging behavior in the classroom, or how to identify and screen children with possible mental health issues. Instead,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Administrators, Mental Health Programs, Best Practices
Koon, Cline M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
Radio is a new force which science has placed in the hands of civilization. Its potential uses are so numerous and varied that it has captivated the imagination of the entire civilized world. As a means of diffusing entertainment and information over wide areas, broadcasting has no peer. Steadily it is breaking down the barriers of isolation,…
Descriptors: Radio, Best Practices, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Harris, Irving B. – Zero to Three (J), 2003
These excerpts from an oral history interview with the founder of the Irving B. Harris Foundation, one of the most influential early funders of the infant-family field, emphasize the importance of promoting early childhood development as a social investment and highlights the lessons from business that Harris brought to philanthropy. Harris traces…
Descriptors: Oral History, Early Childhood Education, Social Capital, Child Development
De Schutter, Adrienne; Fahrni, Patricia; Rudolph, Jim – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
Facilitation by a moderator is crucial to a purposeful and productive conference. The moderator keeps the session focused, and ensures that all participants receive feedback regarding their contributions to the discussion. These functions are particularly important in the otherwise impersonal context of online discussion. The current report…
Descriptors: Internet, Literature Reviews, Best Practices, Methods
Stephenson, Jennifer; Carter, Mark – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2005
Student teachers' perceptions of possible best practices in the education of students with high support needs and their reports of level of implementation during field experience were investigated in this research. In addition, the student teachers' suggestions for other indicators of best practice and their perceptions of barriers to best…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Best Practices, Barriers
Saunders, Jeanne A. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2005
Adolescent pregnancy and parenting remains a pressing social and public health concern because the United States continues to have the highest teen pregnancy rate among Western developed nations and because of the attendant social, psychological, and physical problems for young parents and their children. Prevention efforts to reduce the incidence…
Descriptors: Models, Prevention, Child Rearing, Pregnancy
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2006
The growing belief that North Carolina's schools need to be up to international standards led the Public School Forum of North Carolina to launch its twelfth Study Group, addressing three questions: (1) What would it take to bring North Carolina's teaching of mathematics and science up to internationally competitive standards?; (2) How could North…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Educational Quality
Van Tassel-Baska, Joyce; Quek, Chwee; Feng, Annie Xuemei – Roeper Review, 2006
To help teachers develop a repertoire of instructional strategies that will effect positive changes on students' learning outcomes is essential for both general education and the field of gifted education. This article introduces readers to a classroom observation tool that is designed to help assess professional development needs of teachers of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Gifted, Best Practices, Classroom Observation Techniques
Bourke, Roseanna – Kairaranga, 2006
When teachers participate in professional development and learning opportunities it enables them to reconceptualise their assessment and teaching practices with the support of facilitators and researchers. National programmes of professional development and research, such as the three year Enhancing Effective Practice in Special Education (EEPiSE)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Experiential Learning, Professional Development, Special Education
Harris, Sandra L. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2006
There is no doubt that quality administrator preparation is critical because research has documented that successful school leaders have a strong influence on student achievement as they set direction, support and develop effective teachers, and as they implement effective organizational processes. Yet, it seems that every day the media reports…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Administrator Education, Public Schools, Recognition (Achievement)
Cassim, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
To understand how much or how little progress is made in democratising higher education, an examination of transformation in the sector needs to be undertaken. Such an examination will reveal best practice, the sharing of which can move the process of transformation forward by inspiring those further beyond in the process. This article serves to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Benchmarking, Foreign Countries, Best Practices
New Policy Conclusions from Starting Strong II: An Update on the OECD Early Childhood Policy Reviews
Bennett, John – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Since the start of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) thematic review of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Policy in 1998, some 20 countries across the world have been involved in the project. Recently the OECD has had a very successful launch of the report from the second round--Starting Strong II. This…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Darling-Hammond, Linda; LaPointe, Michelle; Meyerson, Debra; Orr, Margaret Terry – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007
Contemporary school administrators play a daunting array of roles. They must be educational visionaries and change agents, instructional leaders, curriculum and assessment experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special program administrators, and community builders. New expectations for schools--that they successfully teach a broad range of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Change Agents, Organizational Change, Instructional Leadership
Conley, David T.; Langan, Holly; Veach, Darya; Farkas, Virginia – Educational Policy Improvement Center (NJ1), 2007
The Oregon Pre-engineering Learning Outcomes Project was conducted by the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) with grant funding from the Engineering and Technology Industry Council (ETIC). The study sought to improve student preparation and success in pre-engineering programs through the development of the Oregon Pre-engineering Learning…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Engineering Technology, Academic Standards
Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, 2007
Whatever else might be said about the No Child Left Behind Act, it has the potential to be one of the most important pieces of education civil rights legislation in a generation. Its goals are an indispensable component of a renewed commitment to promoting racial and ethnic justice. The emphasis on accountability gives essential urgency and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Change, Limited English Speaking