The focus of the class is on personnel performance as related to student achievement. Effective teaching practices, effective schools' indicators, and effective leadership practices form the core of the course. School reform and its components are explored including site based responsibility, time and learning, and variables controlling learning. The course is focused primarily in constitutional matters, case law, and statutes. The course explores the foundations, history, and changing trends in public schools.
Extensive emphasis is given to real scenarios as an instructional method.
Syllabus Special Interests of the Professor Organizing schools around learning rather than time Getting beyond the rhetoric of leadership. Using evaluation and supervision as a treatment plan rather than a punitive plan. I 2000 ADM 644 Survey of Effective Schools ADM 650 Clinical Supervision Educational Experience Public school principal and teacher for fourteen years. Director and builder of private early education centers Superintendent of public schools in three states for twenty-one years. University professor for three years.