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Kochanczyk, Judy – 2000
This updated resource manual of racial diversity programs and activities should help promote racial reconciliation and understanding among diverse communities. It includes 72 new programs, and six new Indiana communities actually embracing this challenge have been included: Crawfordsville, New Castle, Plainfield, Seymour, Valparaiso, and Wawasee.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Creative Thinking, Cultural Pluralism
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Special Education. – 1977
This talk has been prepared as a model for presenters when seeking the support and involvement of organizations and volunteers for the California Search and Serve program. The paper has been designed to permit easy additions and changes for localization and for meeting the specific requirements of the audience. In its present form, the talk is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ing, Vivian S. P. – Educational Perspectives, 1979
The author defines community education and identifies those components which seem to facilitate an ideal relationship between a school and its neighborhood. Criteria for evaluating the community education emphasis of a particular school are included. This article is part of a theme issue on community education in Hawaii. (SJL)
Descriptors: Activities, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Schools
Howell, Robert E.; Bentley, Marion T. – 1986
Part of a series on economic recovery strategies and techniques for assessing, managing, and mitigating the impacts of economic decline resulting from plant closures, substantial layoffs, or plant relocation, this paper presents a model local leaders can use to analyze, plan, and organize activities. As a means of illustrating the kinds of impacts…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Involvement, Crisis Management
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Bureau of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. – 1980
To help Connecticut school districts both develop goals and involve the community in the process--phase 1 of the planning, evaluation, and resource management (PERM) model--this handbook discusses goal-setting processes and models. An introduction notes the state's educational goals, outlines the PERM model, and describes the role of goals in…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Community Involvement, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Association for Retarded Citizens, Arlington, TX. – 1989
The model workshop described in this paper is intended to present the possibilities of organized self-advocacy for persons with mental retardation or other disabilities. Self-advocacy stresses dignity, respect, and making one's own choices. Information on planning a workshop covers length and size, date and time, speakers, location,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
Holt, Bess-Gene – 1979
The Enabler Model (EM), a non-prescriptive approach to help communities implement their early childhood programs, is described in this paper. The model is based on the positive educational value of human individuality, the life-long ability of all humans to learn and develop, and the power of human sociability in determining the content, extent,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Consultants, Consultation Programs, Early Childhood Education
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Youst, David B. – Journal of Career Education, 1980
Described is the career education approach used in the Savona, New York, school system, which includes a five-part career education planning model. Broader-based community efforts in career education provide the framework within which school programs are developed. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Carr, Alison A.; Reigeluth, Charles M. – Educational Technology, 1993
Offers guidelines for selecting community members for systemic restructuring efforts in public schools. Definitions of community and of systemic restructuring, or educational systems design, are presented; the importance of selection efforts is discussed; a community selection model is described and explained; and further research is suggested.…
Descriptors: Community, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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Horn, Jerry G. – Rural Educator, 1998
Evaluations of rural and small schools done by stakeholders provide a broader base of involvement than those done internally by persons with a vested interest or potential conflict of interest. Presents tasks for initiating a stakeholders' evaluation, groups considered to be stakeholders, evaluation standards, and elements to include in a school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Bhushan, Satya; And Others – 1987
In the Fifth Five Year Plan, the Indian Planning Commission recommended "democratic decentralization" to help remove disparities at the local level. Priorities were to be adult literacy and universal elementary education, with emphasis on adopting a multilevel approach to educational planning. The idea was to provide action plans at the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Decentralization, Developing Nations
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1981
This guide is a statement of policy and guidelines on family life and sex education devised by the Illinois State Board of Education to aid local boards of education, school administrators, and community groups in developing and implementing new programs or extending existing programs. A statement of policy including purpose, programs, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Dept. of Educational Administration. – 1981
This booklet is designed to be used as a workbook to present the concept of community education in a format which addresses important questions any community needs to consider as it explores community education. The booklet can be used in conjunction with the videotape "Community Education: A Profile of Two Communities." However, the contents of…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Community Schools
Fierro, Leonard; And Others – 1976
Two steps in meeting the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are discussed: the formation and role of a Title VI Lau Steerinq Committee, and the involvement of the community in program implementation. Three models for the selection of steering committee members are presented, and suggested decision-making processes are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Committees, Community Involvement, Community Role
Instituto Nacional para la Educacion de los Adultos, Mexico City (Mexico). – 1990
The series "Self-instructional Notes on Social Participation" is a six-volume series intended as teaching aids for adult educators. The theoretical, methodological, informative and practical elements of this series will assist professionals in their work and help them achieve greater success. The specific purpose of each notebook is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
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