Examines four somewhat arbitrary and overlapping themes from the literature in adult and teacher development: life span development, stage development, career development, and teacher development. (HOD)

Describes a program designed for learning disabled adolescents that offers them instruction in the regular curriculum supplemented with direct and indirect services from trained special education teachers. (FL)

Studies and identifies those characteristics and attitudes most needed in approaching curriculum planning from a holistic approach. Describes the phases and methods for holistic curriculum planning. Presents the curriculum planning activities of the Shaker Heights, Ohio, City School District as exemplary. (HB)

Argues for the implementation of mentoring programs for beginning teachers. Outlines theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of mentoring, mentor qualities and expectations, mentoring activities, and outcomes of mentoring. (HB)

Presents a conceptual framework intended to indicate the need to consider curriculum implementation, staff development, and evaluation as integrally linked in the curriculum change process and to reinforce the idea of involving teachers meaningfully. (RS)

Discusses research identifying and examining specific "developmental assets": positive building blocks that all children and youth need for success. Discusses the role of these assets in health promotion and risk reduction. Outlines specific actions educators can take to build 12 of these developmental assets. Notes the special place of health…

This paper proposes using nontest indicators, along with academic tests, to assess school effects on youth development. Relationships between indicators and tests are explored and examples presented of nontest indicators of intellectual development, career development, and health and personal safety. Data sources for indicators are…

Describes a program developed at Christian County High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, that utilizes three different levels of instruction with two different curriculums under each level to meet the differing needs of students. (SR)

The author outlines steps for organizing a successful workshop. A planning checklist and flow chart are included. (SJL)

Discusses the conditions necessary for the development of an effective program of administrative staff development, and describes the critical features of such a program. (Author/SJL)

Describes the systems approach (the Information-Based School Development Project) used by a large education system in Australia for school review and development, involving a research and a service component to help schools identify, obtain, and organize information they need for their own decision-making. Relates two case studies. (SR)

Echoes the recommendation in "An Agenda for Excellence at the Middle Level" that junior high schools and middle schools recognize and accommodate their socially, physically, and mentally diverse populations. (SRT)

States that language arts teachers should be agents for personal growth and development. Suggests using an extensive poetry project as as avenue to personal transformation. (EL)

Describes a collaborative learning community called the Professional Development School Network in Social Studies and Global Education, in which university professors and social studies teachers from six school districts worked together to create a professional-development program and a certification program for teachers. Reflects on several…

Although reports calling for middle level schooling reform first appeared in the mid-1970s, change has been slow to come. In Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century (1989), the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development outlined eight essential elements of middle level education. Drawing from the Carnegie Council's…