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Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2025
As outlined in the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan, digital health, safety, and citizenship skills reflect the full set of knowledge and habits students need to use technology appropriately, responsibly, and safely. For schools and districts, creating the conditions for those skills to develop includes policies regulating the use of…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Technology Uses in Education, Safety, Student Responsibility
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2023
This playbook provides ways in which Higher Education Agencies (sometimes referred as the State Higher Education Executive Officers) and teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Higher Education Agencies (HEAs) play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an…
Descriptors: College Administration, Teamwork, High Schools, Postsecondary Education
Stiles, Katherine; Mundry, Susan; DiRanna, Kathy – WestEd, 2017
In response to the need to develop leaders to guide the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Carnegie Corporation of New York provided funding to WestEd to develop a framework that defines the leadership knowledge and actions needed to effectively implement the NGSS. The development of the framework entailed…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Instruction, Standard Setting, Science Education
Greer, Maureen; Kilpatrick, Jamie; Nelson, Robin; Reid, Kellen – Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems (DaSy), 2014
This document provides an overview of the critical role of fiscal data in state Part C systems. This information is intended to help state Part C lead agency staff better understand strategic fiscal policy questions, the fiscal data elements needed to address those questions, and the benefits of using these data. Fiscal data provide powerful…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Disabilities, Equal Education
Ikemoto, Gina; Taliaferro, Lori; Fenton, Benjamin; Davis, Jacquelyn – New Leaders, 2014
School leaders are critical in the lives of students and to the development of their teachers. Unfortunately, in too many instances, principals are effective in spite of--rather than because of--district conditions. To truly improve student achievement for all students across the country, well-prepared principals need the tools, support, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Administration, School Districts, Administrator Effectiveness
Johnson-Staub, Christine; Schmit, Stephanie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2012
Home visiting is one tool used to prevent child abuse and improve child well-being by providing education and services in families' homes through parent education and connection to community resources. This toolkit provides state policymakers and advocates with strategies for extending and expanding access to state- or federally-funded home…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Child Caregivers, Family Programs, Cooperative Programs
Shah, Shital C.; Brink, Katrina; London, Rebecca; Masur, Shelly; Quihuis, Gisell – Coalition for Community Schools, 2009
This toolkit is designed to help community schools evaluate their efforts so that they learn from their successes, identify current challenges, and plan future efforts. It provides a step-by-step process for planning and conducting an evaluation at your community school site(s). The toolkit is a practical, hands-on guide that makes it possible for…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, School Effectiveness
Stearns, Roman – ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, 2010
This Framework is intended for use by school districts and their community partners as they plan and adopt systems of quality pathways. The Critical Elements that make up the Framework are intended to deepen and clarify the district's thinking about how to build the infrastructure that supports the design, implementation, and sustainability of a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Improvement, School Districts, School Community Relationship
Simpson, Walter – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2009
While a number of excellent campus climate planning resources are available, this guide attempts to fill a gap by providing an abundance of "how-to" information. The goal of the guide is to assist climate action planning teams at schools that are well versed in campus climate issues and well along in the CAP (Climate Action Planning) process as…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Colleges
Hubbard, Ruth Shagoury; Power, Brenda Miller – 1993
This handbook is devoted to the process of teacher research. It shows teacher-researchers how they can pursue their research activities systematically and carefully and provides a number of research techniques, methods for categorizing data, and suggestions for publishing research. The chapters are: (1) "Try To Love the Questions Themselves:…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Virgo, Julie A. C. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Focuses on techniques used to gather data on costs of library and information services. Uses of library cost data are identified, including setting prices for services, making informed management decisions, and communicating with funding agencies. (CLB)
Descriptors: Accounting, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Decision Making
Judd, Becky – Forum for Youth Investment, 2006
The youth development approach has gained traction over the past twenty-plus years, across a range of youth-serving fields, including public health. While it is important for Adolescent Health Coordinators, other practitioners and policy makers focused on youth to be familiar with youth development concepts, it is critically important that they…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Health Programs, Public Health, Individual Development
Marshall, Terry – 1977
Second in a series of three developed to assist rural Americans interested in improving their communities to lock into outside resources for community betterment, this handbook concentrates on proposal writing and the grants process. Part I discusses the key points for proposal writing. These include identifying the process, identifying and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Data Collection, Federal Aid, Financial Support
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
The National Cooperative Education Statistics System was established by the Hawkins-Stafford Education Improvement Amendments of 1988 (Public Law 100-297) to produce and maintain uniform educational data and information. To assist in meeting this goal, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) established the National Forum on Education…
Descriptors: Administration, Agenda Setting, Data Collection, Educational Policy
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1986
Documentation is provided to aid users of a file that contains data on financial aid and school costs for a sample of students in the 1985-86 school year. Each record contains information from the school registrar's office, from the student financial aid office record, and from a questionnaire completed by students. There are 3,774 records on the…
Descriptors: Academic Records, College Students, Data Collection, Databases
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