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Augustine, Catherine H.; Thompson, Lindsey E. – RAND Corporation, 2017
During the school year leading up to summer 2015, summer leaders in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Rochester made concerted efforts to integrate their summer learning programs into the core priorities and operations of the larger school district as a strategy to increase sustainability. This report examines these efforts and their impacts. The…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Achievement Gains
Colvin, Richard Lee – Harvard Education Press, 2013
A book that draws equally on Richard Lee Colvin's deep acquaintance with contemporary education reform and the unique circumstances of the San Diego experience, "Tilting at Windmills" is a penetrating and invaluable account of Alan Bersin's contentious superintendency. Between 1998, when Alan Bersin became superintendent of the San Diego…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Education, Public Schools, Superintendents
Lasagna, Molly; Laine, Sabrina W.; Behrstock-Sherratt, Ellen – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
No one stakeholder group can realize lasting change on their own; nor can any reform initiative focusing on just one type of strategy create the workplace conditions needed to truly build capacity within the education profession. Rather, stakeholders must focus on collaborating, reaching common understanding, and prioritizing for ultimate impact…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Personnel Selection, Unions, Educational Change
Lovely, Suzette; Buffum, Austin G.; Barth, Roland S. – Corwin Press, 2007
Today's workforce comprises distinct generational cohorts-Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials. "Generations at School" provides educators with the knowledge and tools to create and sustain true collaboration, teamwork, and consensus. Suzette Lovely and Austin G. Buffum introduce the traits and tipping points of these diverse age…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Baby Boomers, Labor Force, Employee Attitudes
Lovely, Suzette – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
"Help Wanted" signs are springing up outside schools. The shortage of school administrators is not coming, it is here. To thwart the shortage and keep schools on the cutting edge, diligence in cultivating, training, and inspiring a new generation of school leaders--especially for the principalship, must be exercised. Staffing the Principalship…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, School Districts, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness
Deiseach, Donald – 1974
This booklet resulted from a survey of Canadian school board research units and from a seminar for school board research officers held in Toronto in May 1974. It explains what usually makes up a school board research unit and how a research unit typically relates to the staff and administrative organization of a school system. The 11 activities…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education