States in the midst of implementing evaluation reforms face a common dilemma: how to ensure that all your districts are implementing quality educator evaluation systems while still providing them with the flexibility to design systems best suited to their own unique needs. One answer is to create an equivalency process (also known as an approval…

Adults with developmental disabilities are at significant risk for health problems. Effective health promotion can improve outcomes--and that's why adult day and residential agencies, schools, and other organizations need this invaluable program development guide. An urgent call to action and a start-to-finish framework for health promotion, this…

If individualized learning is to benefit a large number of students, it must be simple and versatile enough for adaptation and implementation by the majority of classroom teachers. The program components and time allocations comprising the Do-It-Yourself Kit allow teachers to formulate their own individualized learning by selecting from and…

Intended for administrators, supervisors, counselors, and other school officials, the booklet provides information on guidance programs for handicapped students which help them to increase their ability to participate in school, cope with their handicaps, relate to other students, and plan ahead for education and careers. Brief chapters cover…

Intended for use in countries planning the establishment of new union catalogs, as well as in countries with long established traditions of library resource sharing, this document provides guiding principles and outlines standard methods and practices for the compilation of union catalogs of serials. Following definitions of relevant terminology…

This field-oriented guide is designed to assist college personnel, particularly those involved with two-year occupational programs, in the planning and evaluation of curricula. The guide consists of four parts. Part I, the Checklist, is divided into seven sections (program identity, articulation, resources, students, employment, support,…

Completed in partial fulfillment of Wisconsin Statutes, Chapter 347, Laws of 1979, this Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) report makes recommendations for developing multitype library systems in Wisconsin to facilitate resource sharing between public, school, academic, and special libraries. It is noted that the recommendations…

This handbook provides step-by-step procedures through which a task force can examine a school's reading program and can define goals and objectives for the future. Charts are provided to aid in the following processes: gathering data about the population served; assessing the current reading program and assigning priorities for improvement;…

This document discusses the reasons for providing public library service to local jails from the viewpoint of the inmate, the library, and the jail administrator; and provides guidelines for establishing and operating this service. Topics covered include: obtaining approval from library and jail administrators for a library jail program; material…

Guidelines are provided for developing, preparing, and improving state plans for vocational education. Three audiences are identified for the manual's use: vocational educators at the state and local level, and non-vocational educators (reviewers, evaluators, etc. of state plans). Chapter 1 describes the context for the development of the state…

This article is designed to assist planners of inservice programs to broaden the range of courses and other types of activities offered within their system of training. Five basic dimensions of an inservice course must be considered: time, people, form, objectives, and sponsor. These dimensions are expanded into a comprehensive working checklist…

This learning module on developing local plans for vocational education (Part I) is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It reviews legislative requirements for planning and discusses the role of the vocational administrator and other key personnel in the…

This learning module on developing local plans for vocational education (Part II) is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It focuses on the last five steps of the comprehensive "Vocational Education Program Planning Model" presented in Part I (CE 016 511).…

Presented is a model designed to aid school personnel in identifying gifted and talented children. In the chapter on problems and challenges of identification, the inadequacies of standardized group intelligence tests are pointed out and factors contributing to the broadening of the concept of giftedness are outlined. Stressed in chapter 2, on…

This workbook is intended to help decision makers in a school district make informed decisions concerning possible adoption or modifications of the Far West Laboratory Experience-Based Career Education program (FWL-EBCE). The workbook presents procedures and guidelines for (1) deciding whether the FWL-EBCE program, or some adaptation of it, is…