In order to create a greater abundance of effective and affordable pathways for low-income learners, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) created Minds That Move Us (MTMU). MTMU challenges the bright minds of communities around the country to design innovative education and training models that create social equity and economic mobility…

This guide begins with background information useful to understanding Illinois' framework for implementation and evaluation of Programs of Study. It starts with a visual depiction of the relationships between activity at the federal, state and local levels that evolved to the creation of Illinois' Career Cluster Model. This Model, which is based…

Critical elements of career development may be ignored unless systematic intervention is planned. The objectives to be achieved in the Career Guidance Model are grouped into five phases: (1) awareness of self and society with individual orientation/attitudes; (2) awareness of self-in-society; (3) individual selection orientation/valuing; (4)…

Presents a model for evaluating performance-based instruction that is intended for use by human resource development/performance technology professionals. Highlights include goal setting; program design and implementation; evaluating the use and impact of training; instructional tasks, including sequencing; quality of student products; and…

The guidelines for planning career education programs revolve around gathering valid and comprehensive data. The career education planning model involves determining people's needs, available resources, and alternatives; establishing policies and practices; writing objectives and plans; and evaluating the results. The document, in outline form,…

A project was designed to identify barriers which preclude cooperation or coordination among agencies (particularly the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Environmental Protection Agency) in the discharge of their manpower responsibilities and to develop techniques for overcoming the barriers…

This monograph, one of a series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models, is designed to make available to prime sponsor staffs the lessons some of their colleagues feel they have learned from service in CETA and previous programs. The content is in seven sections. The first discusses the philosophy and purpose of…