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A Districtwide Staff Development Program For Transitioning From A Basal To A Whole Language Literacy Program: The Teacher Educator's Role As A Partner In The Change Process, Jeannie L. Steele, Kurt Meredith
A Districtwide Staff Development Program For Transitioning From A Basal To A Whole Language Literacy Program: The Teacher Educator's Role As A Partner In The Change Process, Jeannie L. Steele, Kurt Meredith
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This paper describes Project MILE (Moline Improvement in Literacy Education); a school/university partnership program between the University of Northern Iowa and Moline (Iowa) Public School District #40. The project called for a long-term collaborative effort in order to develop a complex and sophisticated level of university involvement with a single school district; which would allow for observation of successes and failures and provide opportunities for refinement of training efforts based on feedback. The project combined the prescriptive and catalytic models of organizational intervention; as teacher educators served as consultants to bring new information and strategies to the school teaching and …