TY - BOOK AU - Joyce, Bruce R. TI - Changing school culture through staff development SN - 871201569 AV - LB 2806.15 .C4 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - Alexandria, Virginia PB - ASCD KW - EDUCATION N1 - Includes bibliographical references; I. Staff development, innovation, and institutional development --II. The self-educating teacher : empowering teachers through research --III. Integrating staff development and school improvement : a study of teacher personality and school climate --IV. The principal's role in teacher development --V. Staff development and the restructured school --VI. The legacy of the teacher center --VII. Connecting the university to the school --VIII. Recent developments in England and Wales --IX. Perspectives from down under --X. The Pittsburgh experience : achieving commitment to comprehensive staff development --XI. The Los Angeles experience : individually oriented staff development --XII. The Lincoln experience : development of an ecosystem N2 - As a young psychologist, I left my position at the Children's Hospital, and subsequently at Juvenile Hall, feeling that most of my work was "too little, too late"; I was trying to solve problems that could have been prevented. So I became a school psychologist to work at the preventive rather than the remedial end of students' academic, social, and emotional growth. Certainly many of their problems were home-based, but educators had little control of that environment. At school, we had considerable control over five or six hours, about a third of a student's waking day. Surely, there were things we could do that might ameliorate, if not change, any undesirable effects from the other two-thirds of that day ER -