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Jono's opening talk at Change Agents 2006, held at the YFC campsite in Magaliesburg, Gauteng. He spoke about the core elements of the Christian faith.
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Join Dr. Mike Hoppe for the first message in his new series "Change Agents!"
Topics: Change, Change Agents, Sermon
Join Pastor Mike for the conclusion of the series "Change Agents!"
Topics: Hosea, Change Agents, Sermon
Join Dr. Mike Hoppe for the next sermon in our series "Change Agents", as he talks about the story of Elijah.
Topics: Elijah, Change Agents, Sermon
Join Dr. Mike Hoppe for part 3 of the exciting series "Change Agents!"
Topics: Change, Change Agents, Sermon
Join guest speaker, Jayme McMillan as he continues our "Change Agents" sermon series and speaks on the story of Josiah.
Topics: Josiah, Change Agents, Message, Sermon
Dr. Mike Hoppe continues our sermon series called "Change Agents." This week, he focuses on the story of Hezekiah.
Topics: Change, Change Agents, Sermon, Hezekiah
The module is intended to help educators understand the components of school climate and its influence on the integration of students with handicaps. Three competencies are addressed: (1) to develop an understanding of the concept of school climate, identify its components and analyze its relationship to educational goals; (2) to develop an awareness of one's level of influence, the capacity to effect change, and the relationship of others' level of influence; and (3) to develop an awareness of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Disabilities, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
This paper describes the science of managed change and how this technique can be applied to educational situations. It also points out current educational problems to which this science of change should be applied. The initial step of a managed change in a client system is the examination of the present state of affairs and an analysis of possible "driving" and "restraining" forces. The establishment of a relationship of mutual respect between change agent and client system...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Educational Change, Performance Contracts, Hall, Clyde W.
The Staff Association of Montgomery College is composed of those who work at the college and are not a member of the Faculty or an Administrator. It was formed in response to a need for representation, to give the Staff a voice for expressing its concerns to the governing bodies of the College. That voice is placed in a seven-member Senate, which is selected annually. Bylaws of the association are listed; these are not of a fixed nature, but are designed to accept the creative and experimental...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Change Agents, Community Colleges, Organizations (Groups), School Personnel
Most research in smoking cessation has shown no intervention clearly superior or successful. Of those who return to smoking after abstaining, a subgroup includes those who do so incrementally, eventually reaching their former level. An approach aimed at this subgroup, originally used in a group setting, involves intensifying the desire to smoke (flooding) and then using hypnosis to desensitize this impulse. The underlying assumptions of the approach are that smoking is a habit requiring an act...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Desensitization, Hypnosis, Intervention,...
The conceptual and theoretical implications of employing different functional models of social change at the community level are outlined in this paper. While no new theoretical or methodological ground is broken, a class of models is recommended that appear infrequently in sociological literature, yet are well suited for representing social change. In particular, the ramifications of additive, multiplicative, and mixed models are explored. Regardless of whether the variable being examined is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Community Change, Community Study, Mathematical Models, Social Change
Profoundly important and unprecedented changes have taken place in China's higher education since 1998, when Zhu Rongji Administration (1998-2003) decided to carry out a new round of educational reform. These changes include some breakthroughs in macro administrative system reform, growth in the total amount of educational expenditure, the enlargement of the recruitment scale of higher education, and positive changes in personnel, reward distribution and rear service reforms. The purpose of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Change Agents, Lixu, Li
The state's strategy for stimulating constructive change is to help clarify objectives, develop analysis techniques, and stimulate self-renewal. Each of these elements is considered in some detail. The problem of clarifying goals and objectives involves three contexts: the content, the level of specificity, and the individuals or groups to whom it applies. Analysis and management includes the development of instruments to assess pupil achievement and to analyze productivity in any given...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Program Costs, Program...
Positive Uncertainty is a flexible, ambidextrous approach to managing change, which encourages the use of both the rational and intuitive mind, and incorporates techniques for both making up one's mind and changing it. Positive Uncertainty, as a new philosophy for counseling, will require a paradigm shift for counselors. It is possible that a new vision of counseling can lead to new counseling strategies and that Positive Uncertainty can be a stimulus for such exploration. (ABL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories,...
Current research in psychotherapy is indicted because: (1) it omits the question of social or political values; and (2) it fails to come to grips with the fact that social, political and economic institutions are a large part of the problems of those who need help the most. Poverty is defined in psychological terms as a pattern of hopelessness and helplessness, of feeling limited and expendable. In these terms, psychotherapy is viewed as excluding the old, the black, the poor and the ignorant....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Poverty, Psychological Services, Psychotherapy, Social Change,...
THIS IS A FACTUAL CASE STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN A LARGE SUBURBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT EXPERIENCING CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SCHOOL BOARD, THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC DURING A PERIOD OF RAPID POPULATION GROWTH. THE STUDY TRACES THE HISTORY OF VARIOUS PROBLEMS ARISING FROM RAPID POPULATION GROWTH AND THE INTRODUCTION OF CURRICULUM CHANGES FACED BY JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS AND SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS FOR A PERIOD BEGINNING SOON AFTER WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Case Studies, Change Agents, Models, Simulation, FARNER, FRANK,...
This rview focuses on the innovation process in local schools. Emphasis is placed on (1) how local schools implement innovations, (2) facilitators and inhibitors of innovation, and (3) unmet needs in assisting schools to adopt innovations. A 78-item bibliography of rlated literature is included. (RA)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Adoption (Ideas), Bibliographies, Change Agents, Educational Change,...
This catalog of protocol materials was prepared under the State of Florida Department of Education. The materials listed have been developed by selected centers and institutions throughout the country. The catalog is divided into three sections. In section 1, information is provided for each set of materials which has already been developed, including name of institution, content, description of materials, coordinates of the concepts from the master coordinate system, and additional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiovisual Instruction, Catalogs, Change Agents, Instructional Materials, Protocol...
This report of the activities of the New England Program in Teacher Education (NEPTE) during the period of July 1973 through June 1974 is divided into 10 sections. The introduction briefly describes NEPTE's purpose and history. The second section communicates the general thrust of the year's activity toward finding sources of funding other than the New England Regional Commission, its original source. Staff changes are noted in the third section. The fourth section briefly describes nine NEPTE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Change Agents, Consultants, Educational Improvement, Interstate...
The focus of this paper is methods for training middle and lower managers, especially those in the field. It is helpful to regard those managers as change agents who must implement decisions coming from the top of the organization, usually in an authoritarian way. Periods of change in an organization can be the time for most effective development of managerial talents takes place. For such development, a well-designed training program is essential. A good program has these characteristics: 1)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Administrator Education, Attitude Change, Change Agents, Management...
The need for specific information about principals as change facilitators prompted a long-range research program. A first step in this effort investigates the interventions principals make in relation to the implementation of an innovation in their schools. Subjects were 10 principals of elementary schools where an identifiable innovation operated. The number of interventions the principals reported during the study are analyzed according to the function of the intervention. The kind of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education,...
This document is a two-part monograph included in a series that presents concepts and practices reflecting an analysis of programs to prepare general and special education personnel. The first section of this monograph, entitled "The Development and Diffusion of 'Mainstreaming' Approaches," discusses procedures for developing, disseminating, installing, and maintaining prototype mainstreaming approaches. An examination of these procedures includes a discussion of a) four developmental...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Education, Educational Change, Professional Training, Special...
To study the actions that can be used to manage and support change in high schools, two researchers made two-day visits to two high schools in each of nine districts in various geographic areas of the nation, where they interviewed students, staff, and central office personnel. In each district, researchers selected one school they judged to be changing a great deal and another school they considered to be typical. The focus of the visits was to explore the following questions: What are the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, High...
This review analyzes literature on educational innovation dissemination and adoption. Emphasis is placed on (1) factors influencing successful adoption of innovations and (2) the role of school personnel and regional education laboratories as change agents. A 77-item bibliography of relevant literature is included. (RA)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Bibliographies, Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Innovation,...
A program was conducted to train 20 experienced teachers and administrators from school districts in Southern Appalachia as agents of change in entry-level administrative leadership positions in the districts from which they have been recruited. Leading to a master of science degree with a major in educational administration and supervision, the program covered 15 months full-time spanning a summer, a full academic year, and the following summer. Included were a human relations laboratory...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Change Agents, Educational Administration, Masters Degrees, Rural...
A study was conducted to determine the role played by media use diversity in shaping public opinion during the 1979 campaign to elect a representative from Great Britain to the European Parliament. The study focused on the British audience's evaluation of the clarity of the campaign issues as presented in the media and on individual cognitions about Europe formed prior to the campaign (cognitive stability). Data used in the study were gathered through interviews conducted with 372 potential...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, News Media, Political...
The ERIC system is described and emphasis is placed on how school and college counselors can use the system to help them counsel more effectively. ERIC resources are used to develop several views of the youth culture and the implications for counselors from each view are discussed. Counselors working with the young must develop a new style that involves a change in cultural awareness and a redefining of the counselor's tasks. Counselors must selectively support some of the new norms and help...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Counseling, Counselor Role, Guidance, Information Systems, Role...
Career education is stronger now than at any time in the past, but it is still faced with many challenges and problems. Among such problems, one of the most obvious is the relative slowness with which career education is being implemented at the senior high school level. Vocational educators, from every area of vocational education, must assume responsibility for making career education work in the senior high school. Career education calls for several changes in the teaching-learning process....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Education Teachers, Career Education, Change Agents, Distributive Education...
Students who participated in Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) have gone on to become leaders in business, education, and public service in the nation. Among former CTSO members are university presidents, governors, U.S. Congressmen and Senators, and a former President of the United States, FFA member Jimmy Carter. The CTSOs remain an integral part of career and technical education in helping to develop the next generation of student leaders. This article profiles the CTSOs'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Organizations, Vocational Education, Student Leadership, Profiles, Leadership...
Through consideration of a conceptual framework, this paper proposes that a comprehensive evaluation can be made that accounts for a project's ability to accomplish social change. The concepts are: (1) ideological development--permits the evaluator to predict the probability of the ultimate change a project can accomplish based on the change agents' consideration of social justice; (2) legacy of change--permits evaluators to determine the potential for continued change after a project's funding...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society), Models,...
In this article, the author presents the ACTE's award winning educators for 2007. They are: (1) Leslie Watkins, 2007 ACTE Teacher of the Year; (2) Mike Gillispie, 2007 ACTE Outstanding Career and Technical Educator; (3) Sandy Hume, 2007 ACTE Outstanding New Career and Technical Teacher; and (4) Joline Dunbar, 2007 ACTE Outstanding Teacher in Community Service. Also honored are: (1) Verlyn Velle, 2007 ACTE Arch of Fame Award; (2) Walter Woodhull, 2007 ACTE Award of Merit; (3) Katherine Cliatt,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Recognition (Achievement), Vocational Education, Profiles, Rewards, Teachers, Change...
In a roomful of people, Ted Sizer always went right to the kids. With merry eyes and delighted smile, he would adjust his tall frame so he could speak directly with the young one. Then he would ask just the right question about what this interesting person was thinking and doing. One could tell that the conversation engaged Sizer completely. He was bringing out the best, both personally and intellectually, in the young person who was talking to him. In this article, the author describes Sizer's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Change Agents, Partnerships in Education,...
Educational research typically overlooks the significance of the superintendent in improvement efforts. The superintendent must not only be a good manager, but must also provide leadership, direction, vision, and purpose, and must establish an atmosphere conducive to learning. Because effective communication is vital, and in order to avoid confusion, the superintendent must also form an administrative team to maximize interaction and create commitment. One of the key elements of superintendent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary...
The SOLVE story begins with a History of SOLVE and a Statement of Need. The needs of the member schools of SOLVE are nearly all focused on staff development skills. In the section on Staff Development the writers of this project have detailed some expectations for teachers in the individualization of instruction. Also in this section are detailed some aspects of the Process of Teaching, Teaching Skills which consider Group Process to a small degree, and a section on the Principal as Change...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Individualized...
This paper presents the findings of a study on the training and characteristics that make for effective assistance personnel involved in implementing school improvement programs. The purpose of the study was to identify the entry skills and characteristics of assistance personnel, how and what they learn during their involvement in school improvement, the specific skills and strategies they use in their work, and what outcomes they help to achieve. The three improvement programs studied were a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary...
The subject of the annual Presidential address of Phi Kappa Phi, presented on May 8, 1962, was John Dewey. Dewey is identified in the public mind chiefly as an educational philosopher. In this address, the author describes the life and work of John Dewey as an indefatigable student of life whose interests ranged, like those of Aristotle, over the spectrum of human experience and whose curiosity and incisive intelligence led him into analyses of an almost incredible variety of human problems.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Recognition (Achievement), Educational Philosophy, Conference Papers,...
The crucial questions facing education in America are ethical, not methodological: Technology for what, and in whose service? In this paper the author first outlines the state of education as it regards socialization today. He finds the schools primarily a place to limit the freedom of children both physically and psychologically. He argues that there is potential in educational technology to alleviate some of the shortcomings of the schools, if society chooses to use it correctly. However,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Educational Philosophy, Educational Quality, Educational Technology,...
Ninety-five elementary principals from 14 northern Illinois school districts participated in a study of the role of school principals in bringing about educational change. The study indicated that elementary school principals recognized needs for establishing effective communication and good working relationships with their constituents. Principals utilized a variety of methods for actively promoting change. Central office personnel rated experienced principals and those employing paid teacher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change,...
This paper presents a classification and critique of evaluator roles, and discusses the power relationships in which the evaluator engages and the power and influence strategies available to the evaluator within each type of role. The paper describes an evaluator role continuum, from "evaluator as technician" to "evaluator as change agent." At one pole of the continuum, the evaluator is portrayed as an "illuminator" fulfilling the technical functions of information...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Models, Power Structure, Researchers,...
This paper discusses the ambiguity which characterizes the role of the reading consultant in the public school. Instead of assuming the quasi-administrative role which is traditional, the consultant should be made a special administrator with power equal to that of the building prinicpal; he or she should fully understand the forces operating within the school environment. A broad knowledge of both reading methodology and theories of administration is recommended. In addition, the consultant...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary...
This collection of papers by educational researchers in Scotland focuses on changes in educational systems and on transition points within systems (such as the transition from primary to secondary education). Chapters fall into four broad categories: Chapters 1 through 5 illustrate how particular facets of education have changed over relatively long periods of time. Chapters 6 through 10 center on reforms in Scottish education. Chapters 11 and 12 are concerned with transition in the sense of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary...
An annotated bibliography of the most significant and general sources available on central planning for social change in the Soviet Union is presented. This bibliography concentrates on sources dealing with planning and change and includes a few works on forces and institutions of change, such as education, collective farms, trade unions, etc., and some on specific time periods or policies. (Author/CK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Agents, Planning, Policy Formation, Social Change,...
This document explains the need for a Specialist in Continuing Education (SCE), outlines the expected role and responsibilities of an SCE, and describes a program being developed to train SCE's. The SCE is envisioned as a teacher educator who will work with inservice teachers in small groups in a variety of ways to continually improve their professional abilities. He will be responsible for coordinating these training activities with both administrators and teachers in order to determine...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educator...
Variations and implications of change agents' patterns or styles of interaction with client systems (individuals, groups, or multigroups) are discussed. Five styles are defined: (1) the instructor, who imparts information to clients and interacts only with his agency; (2) the paterfamilias, who exercises personal, paternalistic influence and authority; (3) the advocate, who channels agency communication and influence to the client; (4) the servitor, who simply performs tasks for clients and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Patterns, Change Agents, Community Change, Interpersonal Relationship,...
This paper presents three case studies of innovation, based on interviews with six adoption agents. Key episodes and incidents which illustrate important principles are drawn from the experiences of these adoption agents. The case studies offer examples of both success and failure--by both internal and external adoption agents. They also emphasize the fact that adoption is a long-term process, requiring good communication between the adoption agent and the adopters, and frequent evaluation of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Change,...
A guide to training parents as behavior modifiers is presented. Providing the parents with a summary of behavior modification principles is suggested. Having the parents select behaviors and gather base rates prior to the interview is discussed. Specific interview topics and questions are presented. The statement of a precise behavioral objective is stressed, as is the rehearsal of the change strategy. Assessment is reviewed with reference to the behavioral change, the parents, and the change...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Conditioning, Guidelines, Parent...
An attempt has been made to categorize phenomena observed as 20 teacher training institutions have adopted innovations and to extrapolate from these findings key concepts and principles that could form the basis for developing empirically testable hypotheses and could be of some immediate utility to those involved in innovation adoption. The concept of a user system oscillating between times of equilibrium and disequilibrium (which takes place during change) was a beginning point. It was then...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational...
This paper is based on primary fieldwork conducted in Lugufu refugee camp in the rural Kigoma Region of western Tanzania. It is an anthropological inquiry into the paradox of refugee food aid based on the prevailing dynamic of domination and submission currently advanced by the international aid community. This inquiry asks fundamental questions relating to the social consequences of refugee food aid. How does the power of gift and reciprocity relate to food aid? What is the strategic value of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nutrition, Foreign Countries, Refugees, Food, Rural Areas, Financial Support,...
