This presentation discusses leadership, climate, culture and instructional practices. It raises questions and links topics together for a big-picture view.

This comprehensive, state-wide, and two-year study of 224 of the 325 middle level schools across the state of Missouri is the largest study known with common measurement of student achievement. The study produced findings ...

This presentation discusses Volume II of NASSP's National Study of Leadership in Middle Level Education, focusing specifically on school leadership.

This presentation discusses where Nitrogen in the environment comes from, its effects, and ways to address its adverse effects.

This presentation discusses visual design and usability. Topics include bullet graphs and use of color. (55 slides)

This presentation discusses common pollutants, how they impact water quality and regional trends of these pollutants.

This presentation looks at the basic of using INFO. INFO is the language of choice for many GIS Algorithms. It is the most accessible programming language in ARC/INFO, as AML cannot access all data and records in a coverage, ...

This presentation deals with data structures and algorithms not inherent to ARC. It is mostly concerned with line coverages (AATs). Topics include: node-arc lists (NAL), NODE Valence tables (VAL), dangling and orphan ARCs, ...

This presentation looks at various programming aspects of INFO, including odd and even program sections, compiling and decoding, debugging techniques, editing, running programs with LINK, and menu files and programs.

This manuscript was written to describe in some detail the Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI) data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change by studying student ...

This presentation includes two parts. The first part (83 slides) discusses riparian forest buffers, including function, types and design considerations. The second part (68 slides) discusses findings that agroforestry and ...

This presentation discusses urban erosion and sediment pollution, including Polyacrylamide.

Next-generation sequencing and high-throughput assaying technologies have dichotomized entire research communities into those individuals who have rapidly evolved in response to the technological selection pressure and ...

This presentation will highlight successful efforts in working with the UM Office of Patents and Licensing to patent, license and commercialize radiopharmaceuticals for medical applications that emerged from collaborative ...

Early detection and treatment of cancers continue to be the best line of defense to prevent fatalities as a result of developing cancer. Several tests have been developed, such as mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopies ...

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the relationships among principal transformational leadership, school leadership-team transformational leadership, and school culture. Twelve middle schools ...

Performance evaluation is designed to assist principals in better accomplishing their leadership role. Performance/Outcome Based Principal Evaluation (PBPE) is defined as "a process for the professional development of ...

The purpose of this research project is to explore decolonizing an observational assessment process and consider its utility for use in diverse school settings. To meet this research goal, the research team selected the ...

ASSIST, an acronym for Achieving Success through School Improvement Site Teams, is grounded in the premise that professional development and support provided to a school leadership team comprised of a nucleus of teacher-leaders ...

This presentation disusses use of Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI) categories, including examples of situational applications.