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Fixsen, Dean L.; Blase, Karen A.; Horner, Rob; Sugai, George – FPG Child Development Institute, 2009
Technical assistance (TA) is designed to build the capacity of individuals and organizations to achieve desired outcomes. During the past decade technical assistance, like many educational initiatives, has been reconceptualized as a multi-tiered approach along a continuum from basic to intensive. Basic technical assistance is the most efficient…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Educational Change, Accountability, Change Strategies
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2009
School leaders are often placed on the "hot seat" when negative images of the school, its staff, or its students appear in the local media. Such reports can strongly affect a school's public and image and, in turn, impact the climate both in the community and within the school itself. Sometimes these perceptions are not based on fact; however,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Technical Assistance, Newspapers
Reedy, Kristin – Northeast Regional Resource Center (NERRC), 2006
The Northeast Regional Resource Center (NERRC) convened national and regional technical assistance (TA) providers and State Education Agency (SEA) teams for two days of focused work on teacher quality. The meeting was held at the Learning Center, Marlborough, Massachusetts, May 4-5, 2006. The purpose of the National Center for Improving Teacher…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Special Education Teachers