NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Hord, Shirley M.; Hall, Gene E. – 1984
Research shows that principals with strong leadership qualities are a critical factor in effective schools. This paper describes three research based techniques that principals can use when making decisions about how to help teachers develop their skills. The Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is an empirically based conceptual framework that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Hall, Gene E.; Rutherford, William L. – 1983
This paper on staff development proposes one dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), Stages of Concern, as a diagnostic tool for use by counselors, administrators, staff developers and other change facilitators who are responsible for the timing and delivery of staff development experiences. A rationale for staff development, the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Counselor Role, Counselors
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hall, Gene E. – Educational Horizons, 1979
The concept of Stages of Concern about the Innovation (SoC) deals with the psychological orientation of both users and nonusers toward an innovation. This article describes the SoC concept and highlights illustrative research findings. Interventions hypothesized as potentially appropriate and implications for the change process are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Conceptual Schemes
Hord, Shirley M.; Hall, Gene E. – 1986
Although vast numbers of educational innovations have been introduced into the nation's schools over the past 20 years, few have succeeded in effecting affective, behavioral, and cognitive student gains. Many recent studies have focused, therefore, on school change processes and the formulation of strategies for successful innovation…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Educational Innovation
Hall, Gene E.; Guzman, Frances M. – 1984
In examining the dynamics of change processes in high schools, this study makes initial interpretations about school officials who serve as change facilitators. The researchers found that a trend exists for the source of change to come from outside the high school. Principals, assistant principals, and department heads as well as central office…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Central Office Administrators, Department Heads, Educational Change
Hall, Gene E. – 1984
This paper describes three paradigmatic "change facilitator styles": initiator, manager, and responder. These styles were identified through observations of principals' school improvement practices and the effects that those practices had on implementation at the classroom level. Initiators have clear, decisive long-range policies and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Innovation