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Planning a comprehensive staff development program

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Directing an early childhood education program is a backbreaking, stressful endeavor. The successful administrator learns to manage time so as to squeeze the completion of infinite tasks into a finite daily time frame. Budgeting, paper work or unexpected conflict resolution often take priority over work with the staff or the curriculum. Staff development efforts are often limited.

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  1. Jeffrey Trawick-Smith
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Jeffrey Trawick-Smith is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willmantic

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Trawick-Smith, J. Planning a comprehensive staff development program. Early Childhood Educ J 12, 6–9 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623089

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