Julie Mead Assistant Professor, Dept. of Educational Administration, UW-Madison. This session will focus on the requirements for children with disabilities under the statewide Open Enrollment Program. The speaker and a panel of school administrators will provide a legal analysis of the statute and the challenges presented to school districts for inclusion of students with disabilities in Open Enrollment. This session considers ways in which power struggles between superintendents and school boards may be viewed as tensions to be wrestled with and not problems to be solved. It will also suggest a new foundation of knowledge where power is used to harmonize, to make peace, and to balance political spirituality.
Research supports the notion of union-management collaboration for school reform.
The presentation reviews the current literature on this topic and examines the practices of school districts where union and management are already involved in collaborative relationships. Research supports the notion of union-management collaboration for school reform. The presentation reviews the current literature on this topic and examines the practices of school districts where union and management are already involved in collaborative relationships. The Transition Experience of Recently Retired Public School Teachers. Steven Heubbe, Ph.D .