Gestión de los Centros Educativos de Educación Primaria, Tipo Dirección Uno, Circuito 06 Katira, Dirección Regional de Educación Zona Norte Norte
An management assessment was made of  3 Mode 1 public high schools belonging to the Northern Educational Region Circuit 6 in the Northern Region of Costa Rica in 2013. The general objectives were to assess and propose enhancements to management activities for the high schools participating in the study. The objectives specifically include: 1 – Acknowledging strengths and weaknesses in the schools´curriculum, teaching staff, financial limitations, educational resources and procedures.  2 – Determine the principal management strategies embraced by principals in teh aforementioned instittutions. The study is qualitative.  Findings include: principals overloaded with work, decontexualized content, general lack of motivation among teachers in the workplace and lack of adequate classrooms to provide a quality education
La supervisión escolar y el cambio educativo. Un modelo de supervisión para la transformación, desarrollo y mejora de los centros
Actualmente, la supervision escolar no puede concebirse sin relacionarla con el desarrollo y la mejora de los centros. Por esto, este tema pretende caracterizar un modelo de supervision orientada especificamente a la consecucion de esos objetivos. En la primera parte, se presentan las dificultades que tiene conseguir cambios y mejoras en educacion y transformar las instituciones escolares. Asi mismo, se senalan los principales factores que pueden contribuir a que los centros se desarrollen y sean capaces de generar y llevar a la practica con exito sus propias propuestas de mejora. En la segunda parte, tras exponer la naturaleza y presupuestos fundamentales de una supervision escolar encaminada a lograr la mejora de los centros, se concreta el papel que debe desempenar el supervisor para lograr ese objetivo, se senalan sus ambitos de intervencion prioritarios y se facilitan pautas oncretas de actuacion profesional.
Historias de mi barrio: contemporary art in a community at high risk of social exclusion
Abstract Historias de mi barrio is a piece of pedagogic research aimed at highlighting the way art can articulate the relationship between the educational context and a neighbourhood at high risk of social exclusion. The starting point for this study was to ask whether this type of research, centred around the arts, was suitable in complex contexts and whether it might eventually lead to pedagogic improvement. The results gathered, and indeed the work carried out by the artists and university lecturers involved, together with pupils 6–12 years old and their instructors in a state school, provide evidence of a positive answer – and notably of the necessity of knowing about the socio-economic reality of the student cohort when planning learning projects and of the importance of the arts as a crucial element in education.