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Grose, Karen; Strachan, Jim – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
Three years ago, the Toronto District School Board, the largest in Canada and the fourth-largest in North America, began to explore demonstration classrooms as a way to create a richer model of job-embedded, differentiated, and personalized professional learning. By doing action research and examining a variety of professional learning models from…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Models
Lane, Kenneth E. – 1989
Louisiana has witnessed rapid change in the role and direction of educational administration programs and certification during the last 2 years. The state's LEAD program, begun in 1986-87 by the Louisiana State University in conjunction with other state universities, consists of a technical assistance network to help those principals with less…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Beginning Principals, Demonstration Centers
Milwaukee Public Schools, WI. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1982
The Milwaukee Project is an attempt to provide science teachers at all grade levels with the background and support they need to involve handicapped students in a regular science class. Goals of the project include the improvement of preservice and inservice teacher training to prepare teachers to include the handicapped child in the mainstream…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary School Science
Boldrey, Tom; And Others – 1975
The publication was developed to provide cursory information about the people, places, and things essential to career and vocational education that may be seen at the Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Demonstration Center (CIOEDC) in Joliet, Illinois. The CIOEDC was designed to demonstrate several K-14 career and vocational education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Conferences, Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs
Johnson, Elmima, Ed.; Calbert, Roosevelt, Ed. – 1992
The Division of Human Resource Development of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has the responsibility for broadening the participation of minority groups underrepresented in science, engineering and mathematics. This publication highlights a selection of model projects funded by the NSF to accomplish that mandate. The projects are presented…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Institutions, Career Awareness
Angevine, James – 1982
Part I of this brief document outlines seven opportunities provided for Pittsburgh secondary teachers by the Schenley High School Teacher Center. These opportunities include observing exemplary instructional activities in a real setting, practicing new skills and techniques, receiving feedback on that practice, and translating theory into…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Experimental Schools
Joliet Township High School District 204, IL. – 1976
Planning, implementation, and demonstration/dissemination phases of the CIOEDC (Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Demonstration Center) project, Site A, Joliet, Illinois from February 15, 1974 to June 30, 1976, are included in this report. (The principle objectives of the project were to bridge the gap between the theoretical and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Conferences, Demonstration Centers