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Creating Extension Programs for Change: Forest Landowners and Climate Change Communication
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Krantz, Shelby; Monroe, Martha; Bartels, Wendy-Lin – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2013
The Cooperative Extension Service in the United States can play an important role in educating forest landowners to improve forest resilience in the face of climatic uncertainty. Two focus groups in Florida informed the development of a program that was conducted in Leon County; presurveys and postsurveys and observation provided evaluation data.…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Forestry, Focus Groups, Pretests Posttests
Professional Development for Afterschool Practitioners: The First Year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate Program
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Baker, Stephen; Lockaby, Tracey; Guterman, Kai; Klumpner, Susan – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2011
This report describes the first year implementation of a new professional development program, Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate (PBC-AEC). Set within a larger systemic quality improvement effort in Palm Beach County, this training seeks to provide a concentrated course of learning, practice, and reflection. The training seeks to…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Professional Development, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness
Moving from Afterschool Training to the Workplace: The Second Year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate Program
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Baker, Stephen; Johnson, Lauren; Turski, Konrad; Lockaby, Tracey; Daley, Kathleen; Klumpner, Susan – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2012
Effective professional development is accepted as necessary for the improvement of afterschool program quality, which is itself a cornerstone for improving youth outcomes. But professional development is most effective when both individual participants are engaged and building relevant knowledge and skills, and the organizations to which they…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Pilot Projects, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness
Florida Experience-Based Career Education Program, 1977-1978. Third Party Evaluation, Interim Report.
Bashaw, W. L.; Wood, Paul L. – 1978
The major purpose of this project was to further develop, expand, diffuse, demonstrate, and evaluate an educational program which provides an experience-based career education (EBCE) component at the secondary level in three Florida school districts and one postsecondary site. These four components, acting as a consortium, were extensions of…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Education, Experiential Learning, Participant Satisfaction
Using On-Line Modules for Professional Development in Action Research: Analysis of Beta Testing Results
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Little, Mary; King, Laura – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2007
Although research identifies a plethora of evidence-based instructional practices, classroom teachers find research difficult to access, often not implemented due to perceived lack of relevance to classroom practice. Bridging this gap between research and practice requires continued and mediated support as teachers translate and contextualize…
Descriptors: Action Research, Learning Modules, Theory Practice Relationship, Evidence Based Practice
Extension Energy Tips: Telecassette Energy Information System. A Pilot Study.
Sheffield, Cynthia L.; Farrington, William S. – 1981
The University of Florida Agricultural and Extension Education Department and the Sarasota County Cooperative Extension Service collaborated to conduct a pilot project utilizing a telecassette system to disseminate energy information. A statewide survey was administered to Florida county extension directors to identify the most frequently asked…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Conservation Education, County Programs, Energy Conservation