School Heads’ Practices Defined

A TIGHT BALANCING ACT: LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES FOR UNIVERSITY HEADS (Heads of School and Heads of Department)

This paper draws on the responses of 134 Heads of School and Heads of Department who were part of a larger study of 513 Australian higher education leaders. Heads of School / Department are at the centre of complex relational interfaces comprising faculty, students, central administration, and external entities and support agencies. While such experiences are not necessarily unique to Heads, th...

Leadership Practices of School Counselors

efl home literacy practices of iranian middle school students: an ethnography

موضوع آموزش زبان انگلیسی و کسب مهارت در آن همواره مورد توجه کارشناسان، خانواده ها و معلمان قرار داشته است. امروزه این مهم، با گسترش نیازها و تنوع کاربرد های آن، بیش از هر زمان دیگری به مطالعه و تحلیل نیاز دارد. بر اساس یک رویکرد فرهنگی- اجتماعی به آموزش و سواد، این مطالعه کیفی در پی آن است تا با شیوه قوم نگاری((ethnography، توصیف و تحلیلی از مجموعه فعالیت های آموزشی در خانه( (home literacy ...

Obesity prevention in defined (high school) populations

BACKGROUND A challenge for the widespread dissemination of Internet-based programs designed to produce weight maintenance/loss in defined (high school) populations is to adapt them to local needs and interests, whereas demonstrating effectiveness and salience for both universal and targeted populations. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to examine the feasibility of providing an inexpe...

Promising Practices for School-located Vaccination

A school-located mass vaccination clinic approach can enable rapid vaccination of a large number of students while minimizing disruption of their school activities and potentially reducing missed work hours by parents. During 3 consecutive influenza seasons beginning in 2005, the Knox County Health Department conducted school-located mass vaccination clinics using live attenuated influenza vacc...