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Erb, Tom – Middle School Journal, 1999
Discusses the differences between applications of interdisciplinary philosophy to school organization and to curriculum. Details organizational and curricular arrangements, notes that the two organizational arrangements can support any of the curricular arrangements, but that the term "interdisciplinary" means one thing when it modifies school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Millward, Robert E. – School Administrator, 2000
Three-dimensional model building can help superintendents understand and monitor alternative perceptions of the school organization. Using simple models to depict district leadership or supervision plans (using nails in a board or other simple materials) can bring tangible meaning to abstract visions. (MLH)
Descriptors: Brain, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Models
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Arencibia, J. Santiago; Moreno, Juan Manuel – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2005
This paper presents the results of a two-year qualitative inquiry, carried out in Spain, on a rather neglected side of external support to schools: the personal and professional experience of external support agents when they go back to teaching. These ex-advisers are career teachers who return 'home' to school after having left it to serve for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Support, School Organization, Qualitative Research
Grant, Jim – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
This book is a survival guide as well as a valuable tool for making our schools more effective and appropriate places for students to learn and achieve. Exploring the often complex, multifaceted, and co-occurring problems in the education system, the book addresses specific problems, discusses the real reasons they developed and persist, describes…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Instructional Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
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Browne-Ferrigno, Tricia – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2007
This article shares findings from an exploratory case study about an advanced school leadership development program designed specifically for practicing principals and administrator-trained teachers. The program was designed to help a high-need rural district transform its principalship from school management into learner-center leadership while…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Principals, Teacher Leadership
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Tubin, Dorit; Klein, Sarit – Planning and Changing, 2007
Over the past few years, as part of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) reform on the one hand, and the increased demands for school accountability on the other, more and more schools have launched a school website aimed at enhancing educational activities, supporting student-teacher communication, contributing to school marketing…
Descriptors: School Organization, Web Sites, Internet, Content Analysis
Yan, Wenfan – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2006
School district size is important to policymakers and educators who need to determine the most effective way to structure school organization. For more than 40 years, a growing body of research has focused on the relationship between school size and school effectiveness (Monk & Plecki, 1999). Early studies did not address the effect of school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, School District Size, School Organization
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Talley, Wade Kenneth; Keedy, John L. – Education and Urban Society, 2006
This study identified the enabling conditions related to building instructional capacity created by the councils in three high-performance schools in an urban district. The authors collected the data through observation, interview, and document mining. School-level data were sorted inductively into themes through constant comparative analysis.…
Descriptors: School Councils, Instructional Development, School Organization, Decision Making
Allensworth, Elaine; Ponisciak, Stephen; Mazzeo, Christopher – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2009
This report reveals that about 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children. In the typical Chicago elementary school, 51 percent of the teachers working in 2002 had left…
Descriptors: African American Children, High Schools, Elementary Schools, Teacher Persistence
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
One of the ultimate goals of policy makers is to enable citizens to take advantage of a globalised world economy. This is leading them to focus on the improvement of education policies, ensuring the quality of service provision, a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and stronger incentives for greater efficiency in schooling.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Policy Analysis, Human Capital, Educational Finance
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Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Teachers are facing an increasing number of changes in their job context, many of which significantly affect their work lives. This study offers a theoretical understanding of the changes in teachers' working conditions, starting from the intensification thesis. The case study of a Flemish (Belgian) elementary school shows the existence of various…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teaching Conditions, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Fasih, Tazeen; Barrera, Felipe; Garcia-Moreno, Vicente A.; Bentaouet-Kattan, Raja; Baksh, Shaista; Wickramasekera, Inosha – World Bank Publications, 2007
School-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the past decade. The World Bank Education Team's SBM work program emerged out of a need to define the concept more clearly, review the evidence, support impact assessments in various countries, and provide some initial feedback to teams preparing education projects. During the…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Duffy, Francis M. – International Journal of Educational Management, 1997
This article describes a new supervision model conceived to help a school system redesign its anatomy (structures), physiology (flow of information and webs of relationships), and psychology (beliefs and values). The new paradigm (Knowledge Work Supervision) was constructed by reviewing the practices of several interrelated areas: sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Models, School Effectiveness
Donovan, Kenneth – Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education, 1974
Author surveyed how far comprehensive reorganisation has progressed in Wales. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Opportunities, High Schools, School Organization
Gaver, Mary Virginia – NJEA Review, 1975
Article provided a look at seven exemplary media and resource centers that revealed insights into decentralization of school media services. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Decentralization, Elementary Schools, Learning Resources Centers, Program Development
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