A project was undertaken at California's Orange Coast College (OCC) to develop a handbook that would delineate the duties and responsibilities of department chairs at the college. To determine the appropriate design elements and content of the handbook, the relevant literature was reviewed, formative criteria were established and validated, and…

This practicum addresses the creation of an economically viable school in the private sector to meet the educational and social needs of cognitively developmentally accelerated preschool-age children. Anticipated outcomes of the practicum included development of a well-documented philosophical approach to preschool gifted education, curriculum…