A practical guide to effective school board meetings / / Rene S. Townsend, James R. Brown, Walter L. Buster ; cover designer, Anthony Paular

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480433503321
• Autore: Townsend Rene S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-4833-6136-5; 1-4833-6353-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.1/531
• Soggetti: School boards - United States; Public meetings - United States; School board members - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Part I - The Leadership Challenge; Chapter 1 - Focusing on Teaching and Learning; Mission is Different from Vision; The Right Mission; Mission-Critical Work; Teaching and Learning; Chapter 2 - Building the Superintendent-Board Team; Distinct and Complementary Roles; Policy-Driven Meetings; Part II - Pre-Meeting Planning; Chapter 3 - Planning the Calendar and Agenda; Twelve-Month Calendar; Audience; The Agenda Planning Team; The Overall Agenda; Individual Agenda Items; Potential Board Action; Presentations and RecognitionsOther Meeting Agendas; Chapter 4 - Preparing: Sweat the Small Stuff; General Logistics; The Meeting Room; Participants; The Unexpected; Chapter 5 - Designing the Board Packet; Key Elements of the Board Packet; Supporting Material; Appearance of the Document; Other Printed Matter; Additional Considerations; Chapter 6 - Communicating the Agenda; Distribution; Communication; Touch Base with Constituents; Part III - Meeting Time; Chapter 7 - Conducting the Board Meeting; Behavior; Before the Meeting; During ; the Meeting; Meeting Times; After the Meeting; Chapter 8 - Meeting behind Closed DoorsMeeting Times; Closed Session Participants; Agenda Requirements; Stay on Track; Part IV - Post-Meeting; Chapter 9 - Following up; The Link to Teaching and Learning; Communication Plan; Formal Follow-up; Informal Tasks; Chapter 10 - Recovering; Immediately after the Meeting; The Next Day; The Long View; Chapter 11 - Wrapping up; Resource A: Board-Superintendent Protocols (Sample); Resource B: Twelve-Month Calendar (Sample); Resource C: Board Agenda Development Worksheet (Sample); Resource D: Individual Agenda Item (Sample); Resource E: Welcome to the Board Meeting (Sample)Resource F: Request to Speak Cards (Samples); References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Now superintendents can turn board meetings into productive, results-getting events that help them focus on teaching and learning to achieve district goals.

Minimality effects in syntax [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Arthur Stepanov, Gisbert Fanselow, Ralf Vogel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782196203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-19389-9; 9786612193897; 3-11-019736-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Collana: Studies in generative grammar ; ; 70
• Altri autori (Persone): StepanovArthur; FanselowGisbert; VogelRalf <1965->
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- On clitics, feature ; movement, and double object alternations -- PF merger in stylistic fronting and object shift -- The MLC and derivational economy -- Stylistic fronting: a contribution to information structure -- The superiority conspiracy: Four constraints and a processing effect -- Minimal links, remnant movement, and (Non-)derivational grammar -- Extending and reducing the MLC -- Minimality in a lexicalist Optimality Theory -- Phrase impenetrability and wh-intervention -- MLC violations: Implications for the syntax/phonology interface -- Ergativity, Case and the Minimal Link Condition -- Correspondence in OT syntax and Minimal Link effects -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995). The bulk of the papers are based on the ideas presented at the Workshop "Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic Syntax" which took place at the University of Potsdam on March 21-22, 2002. All contributors are prominent specialists in the topic of syntactic Minimality. The empirical phenomena brought to bear on Minimality/MLC in the present volume include, but not limited to: Superiority effects in multiple wh-questions, including those with 'D-linked' wh-phrase(s) (Müller, Haida, Haider) Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance (Fisher, Poole) Transitive sentences in Hindi-type ergative languages (Stepanov) Word order 'freezing' effects in double-nominative constructions in Korean (Lee) Double object constructions in Greek (Anagnostoupoulou) Remnant constituent displacement in German and Japanese (Hale and Legendre) Nine of the proposed accounts are couched in the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001), three in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Thematically, the contributions divide into three groups addressing the following major questions: How can apparent violations of syntactic Minimality/MLC be accounted for? (Haida, Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou) What is the status of MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? (Müller, Fanselow, Lechner, Vogel, Lee, Haider) Can Minimality phenomena shed decisive evidence in favor of a derivational (Minimalist type) or a representational (Optimality theory like) framework? (Hale and Legendre, Haider)