Visioning for the Future: What Can Educational Leaders Do to Build a Shared Commitment to Interagency Collaboration?
Interagency collaboration is being touted as a means for schools to address the increasing social, emotional and health care needs of students. In this article, we contend that if interagency collaboration is to become more than a buzzword, then school leaders must work diligently to build a shared commitment to the school's vision by engaging service providers in sustained and collective discussions and decisions about the school's direction. Two promising approaches for building this shared commitment—strategic planning and collaborative visioning—are highlighted, including a discussion of how several newly-formed collaboratives are confronting the cultural, procedural/regulatory, and personal barriers that prohibit meaningful interagency collaboration.
Examination of Issues Related to In-Service Programming for Personnel Working with Children Who Are Prenatally Exposed to Drugs and Alcohol.
This paper defines issues concerned with the needs of children prenatally exposed to alcohol and drugs, delineates solutions, and identifies obstacles and barriers. The primary issue is seen to be identifying those individuals and services likely to contact these infants and young children and to provide such individuals with appropriate training so that early identification is facilitated. Alternative solutions are considered in the context of the importance of the community for planning and development of prevention and intervention services. Among recommendations are expansion of the role of Interagency Coordinating Councils to address all needs of children, schools' use of team building models from business, and emphasis in inservice programs on the topics of collaboration and improving partnerships with parents. Obstacles and barriers are noted, such as avoidance of the problem by many school systems. Service providers are urged to stress interagency collaboration and to avoid stigmatizing children by labeling. (DB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************
Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq
Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction -. PART I: MAPPING THE JUST WAR TRADITION. Chapter 1: Antiquity -. Chapter 2: The Middle Ages -. Chapter 3: Renaissance and Reformation -. Chapter 4: From Holy War to Enlightenment -. Chapter 5: Modernity and Beyond -. PART II: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. Chapter 6: The Just War Tradition Today -. Chapter 7: Terrorism -. Chapter 8: Pre-emption -. Chapter 9: Aerial Bombing -. Chapter 10: Humanitarian Intervention -. Conclusion. Bibliography -. Index