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Hirschi, Jane S. – Harvard Education Press, 2015
"Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schools" takes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K--8 education. The book frames the garden movement for educators and shows how school gardens have the potential to be a significant resource for teaching and learning. In this…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, Gardening, Case Studies
Silander, Megan; Chavez-Reilly, Michael; Weinstein, Meryle – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2015
Teaching entrepreneurship--how to create, grow and run a business or organization--is one potential means to increase college and career readiness skills. Learning how to start a business can improve critical thinking, communication and collaboration (Gallagher, Stepien, & Rosenthal, 1992; Hmelo, 1998), which are key qualities for academic as…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Business Skills
Trevino, Rose; Trevino, Pete – 1996
This manual of activities and reproducible drawings and worksheets is designed to encourage reading and to accompany a reading club program. Each chapter is centered around an Olympic sport. As each chapter begins, a bulletin board idea and nametag pattern are provided. This is followed by several storytime ideas for toddlers and preschoolers,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities, Learning Activities
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1992
This is the third part of a three-part curriculum guide dedicated to improving the nutritional status of children and adolescents as well as inspiring lifetime habits of healthy eating. It is also a total nutrition education program that encompasses nutritional aspects of a student's daily life both at school and at home. Teachers are provided…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Habit Formation
Bristow, Roy D.; Anderberg, Marc – 1999
High school graduates from a self-selected group of school districts in Texas were surveyed early in the year after graduation regarding the extent to which they were engaged in activities endorsed by the state's School-to-Careers (STC) initiative during their senior year in high school. Since the STC initiative had only begun during these…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, High School Graduates
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1992
This is the first part of a three-part curriculum guide dedicated to improving the nutritional status of children and adolescents as well as inspiring lifetime habits of healthy eating. It is also a total nutrition education program that encompasses nutritional aspects of the child's daily life both at school and at home. Teachers are provided…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Early Childhood Education
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1992
This is the second part of a three part curriculum guide dedicated to improving the nutritional status of children and adolescents as well as inspiring lifetime habits of healthy eating. It is also a total nutrition education program that encompasses nutritional aspects of the child's daily life both at school and at home. Teachers are provided…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Habit Formation
Lusky, Richard A.; And Others – 1995
This learning module is one of three training modules that were developed for members of the Texas Gerontological Consortium for Continuing Education to use in preparing case managers working in human service professions coordinating community-based programs for frail elderly Texans. Module III deals with the following topics: implementation (case…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Caseworker Approach, Caseworkers
North Harris Montgomery Community Coll. District, Houston, TX. – 1995
This tool kit contains the tools necessary to produce shared counselor partnerships for Texas area school districts to help students make a seamless transition from high school to postsecondary education opportunities. Among the topics discussed in the first eight sections are the following: developing the model; identifying/describing existing…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning, Counseling Services
Williams, Catherine – 1979
This manual is the second part of a two-volume teacher's guide to a series of instructional units for use in health occupations education programs in Texas. Covered in the 10 units included in this volume are the following topics: special procedures (administering oxygen to patients; using elastic bandages; assisting with postural drainage; and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Anatomy, Behavioral Objectives, Clinical Diagnosis