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Watkins, Christine – 1990
This document describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a 10-week parent effectiveness training program to improve black elementary school student attitudes and participation in extracurricular activities by improving the attitudes of their parents towards school. The program was developed in consultation with teachers and…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities
Patterson, Joan S. – 1979
A model program was designed and implemented to effectively develop and maintain communication skills in the children of an urban K-6 school. The goals of the program were to reverse a trend in under-achievement in five academic areas, to identify and develop potential in communication skills in two targeted groups of children, to create staff…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Newman, Daniel G. – 1978
To comply with a 1975 memo from the Office for Civil Rights, the Seaford Senior High School in Seaford, Delaware, was required to maintain records on all student discipline actions. These records consisted of student disciplinary case reports designated by case file numbers. In addition, all discipline actions were to be logged by racial or ethnic…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Computer Oriented Programs, Discipline, High Schools
Johnston, Arlene M. – 1990
An elementary school teacher designed and implemented a year-long practicum study on parent education which was intended to improve parent participation in their third-graders' school work and learning. A parent awareness component was added to Parent Teacher Organization programs. Guest speakers presented programs on topics that involved parents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Check Lists, Elementary School Students
Download full textBuntin, Kathleen R. – 1993
As a practicum project, an elementary school counselor developed and implemented a parent education program centered on the use of parents as models and peer facilitators for other parents. Based upon a survey of parents' self-professed needs, the program focused on parenting skills designed to help children avoid such high-risk behaviors as…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Education, Parent Education, Parent Participation
Woodard, Beth L. – 1992
This paper reports on the implementation and results of a program that addressed the problem of aggressive behavior among students at an urban elementary school. Program objectives were to bring about a decline in the number of referrals written for students' aggressive behavior; an increase of parents' supervision of children's media consumption;…
Descriptors: Aggression, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Leckie, Sheila; And Others – 1978
A team of three educators developed and implemented a reading improvement program for first through sixth grade students who displayed discrepancies between their reading achievement and reading abilities. The program involved 283 underachieving students at seven elementary schools. The goal of the program was to provide intervention strategies…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Differentiated Staffs, Elementary Education, Parent Participation
Crowther, Eleanor – 1993
The practicum reported here was designed to increase middle school students' participation in and use of the school library programs and resources. BookTalks, Read Alouds, a special service project, and three all-school programs were accomplished in this independent school setting during a three-month period. Middle school students were encouraged…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Library Role, Library Services
Bishop, Anne G. – 1990
The need to provide elementary school teachers with effective parent involvement strategies for hard-to-reach parents was addressed by designing an inservice for teachers which presented research-based strategies. Strategies included using a positive, non-threatening approach, employing personal, two-way communication, providing guidance and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Home Visits
Hoffman, Janet B. – 1992
An intergenerational literacy program was developed for 40 teenage parents and their children enrolled in an alternative education center. The program was designed to empower teenage parents to develop the emerging literacy of their children while reducing their own literacy deficiencies. The Once upon a Time-Together program acquainted teenage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Parenthood
Gorsin, John – 1979
This model of teacher supervision was designed to improve instruction in the Aspinwall Elementary School in the Fox Chapel School District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project sought to accomplish three things: improve the achievement level of underachieving students, increase teacher instructional effectiveness, and change the teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Conferences
Galletta-Bruno, Diana – 1995
The practicum reported here addressed the difficulty some newly-immigrated Spanish-speaking, limited-English-proficient high school students experience in adjusting to a new culture, putting them at risk of dropping out of school. A program was designed for this population in a suburban high school with a substantial and increasing immigrant…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Conversational Language Courses, Dropout Prevention, English (Second Language)
