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Hazzard, Eric L.; Moreno, Elizabeth; Beall, Deborah L.; Zidenberg-Cherr, Sheri – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
To ascertain best practices for schools implementing or sustaining instructional school gardens by interviewing key members in 10 schools with exemplary instructional school gardens programs in California. Practices of schools with exemplary instructional school gardens programs were analyzed by constant comparative analysis using qualitative data…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Data Analysis
Nannay, Robert W. – Man/Society/Technology, 1973
The pilot project in career education developed at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham for grades K-6 is described. It is centered around the concept of the USOE's School-Based Model. (MS)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Elementary Education
Mullin, Virginia I.; Gottschalk, Kurt P. – 1972
A model for community services that stresses the necessity and value of community involvement in the planning of community service activities is presented. The role of the community service sector of the educational institution is to establish a center which will provide leadership in uniting and coordinating community efforts to meet individual…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
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
Khoo, Kim Choo – 1989
In 1985, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Childcare Services of Singapore started an experimental project designed to develop an alternative model of child care. The resulting project, the Community Childcare Center (CCC), differs from regular child care centers in that it: (1) is cheaper; (2) involves considerable community…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Bregman, Ralph – 1979
One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper presents an educational planning model which incorporates citizen involvement at the local level and provides a more responsive and efficient vocational education system. In the first section techniques are discussed for encouraging community participation, such as general…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement
Weiner, Debra S. – 1978
This study examines the circumstances under which a large urban school system opens the budget development process to the input of citizens groups and the difficulties involved in this effort. The scope of the study is limited to the analysis of the 1977 Budget Task Force (BTF) of the Philadelphia School District and observations of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Boards of Education, Budgeting
DuBose, Lane E. – 1976
A distinctive model for gathering and sharing information and planning was developed. Essentially, the model is a 90-day issue-identification and solution-planning strategy that can be applied to any concern deemed by a school board and its constituency to be sufficiently critical to warrant involving significant numbers and kinds of persons in…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Boards of Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Involvement
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged