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Download full textJones, Bernie – CD Practice, 1995
Community development makes use of what is now called strategic thinking and strategic planning. One crucial step in this process is developing strategies (and the subsequent tactics). First, the community development practitioner must assess the situation thoughtfully, and find out what resources the community has available, what is achievable,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Development
National School Resource Network, Washington, DC. – 1980
Twelve junior and senior high schools in California and ten in New York City are working to mitigate violence and vandalism in their schools and reduce high droupout and absentee rates by addressing a problem central to these issues--student alienation. Through the Open Road Student Involvement Project, natural student leaders form a volunteer…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Leadership Training, Prevention, Problem Solving
Jarrett, Denise, Ed. – Northwest Teacher, 2000
This publication features articles that illustrate how several Northwest teachers are using problem solving to achieve rigorous and imaginative learning in their classrooms. Articles include: (1) "Open-Ended Problem Solving: Weaving a Web of Ideas" (Denise Jarrett); (2) "Teenager or Tyke, Students Learn Best by Tackling Challenging Math" (Suzie…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development, Integrated Activities
LeCroy, Nancy; Tedrow, Barbara – Leadership Abstracts, 1993
As the issues with which individuals and communities struggle on a daily basis have become more urgent (e.g., unemployment, increasing crime, and overburdened health care), the tensions inherent in the relationship between college and community have become more apparent. Despite criticism that their missions are already overextended, some…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Change, Community Colleges
Lake, Sara – 1983
Developed by Japanese corporations to improve productivity and product quality, quality circles (QC's) are small, voluntary groups of workers who share common job responsibilities and who meet regularly to generate solutions to problems. Features of QC's that are applicable to schools are examined in the nine articles summarized in this annotated…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Camperell, Kay, Ed.; And Others – Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, 1995
The papers in this book focus on the strategies, practices, theory, or research related to emergent literacy, elementary and secondary reading, literature, philosophy, affective issues, school improvement, teacher training, and assessment that are related in important ways to issues in past, present and future reading education. Papers in the book…
Descriptors: Action Research, Awards, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy
