Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify key school leadership practices that center social justice and are evidenced across multiple school and district contexts. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, multidistrict research design is used within this study. Sampled across seven US school districts, 24 school leaders were…

Family child care (FCC) providers often experience isolation from other early childhood and child care professionals. Yet, research suggests that providers who network with other providers, engage with community resources, and belong to support groups tend to offer higher quality child care. For example, the Family Child Care Network Impact Study…

There are 1.2 million school-age children with military parents in the United States, and approximately 90% attend public schools. On average, military children move three times more often than their civilian peers. Tensions at home, enrollment issues, adapting to new schools, and a lack of familiarity with military culture by public school…

High-quality care in the earliest years of life has been shown to relate to positive developmental outcomes for children, including improved early academic skills, social-emotional competencies, and cognitive functioning. Unfortunately, the early care experiences of many children are not always high quality; rather, research suggests that…

This handbook helps school administrators and their colleagues plan and conduct educational workshops in their communities with or without help from universities or colleges. It can be used as a tool for staff development programs, and provides names and places that have used their communities as learning resources in the past two decades. The…

The inservice program section of the staff development program for promoting more affective use of community resources in career education consists of eight modules. Each module contains an instructional plan, suggestions for the inservice coordinator, handout and transparency masters, and resource materials. The eight separate modules are: (1)…

Describes a storefront resource center where family day care mothers can meet and share ideas and experiences with other day care mothers, can receive training in child health and development, and can become familiar with and learn to use available community resources. (JMB)

Designed for teachers and administrators in small rural school districts, this booklet examines ongoing curriculum improvement according to what a small rural school district needs to continuously improve instruction and what steps it can take to maximize improvement, given limited human and material resources. Practical alternatives are presented…

A brief program description, recommendations to the sponsor, and an evaluation report are presented for a 6-day summer workshop to train public school teachers and administrators (K-12) to use community resource people in career awareness and exploration programs. Activities reported include large- and small-group training sessions, community site…

This document, designed by the Colorado Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Educators Workgroup, is intended to assist school personnel in the development of curriculums for AIDS/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) programs. The guide includes the following: action plan; growth and developmental parameters and objectives for the AIDS…

The manual describes Project ASCENT, a North Carolina project to provide support services to help early childhood teachers provide a differentiated curriculum for identified gifted children in the regular class. The chapter on program implementation considers such aspects as project goals, staff, funding, schools involved, the duties of the…

Designed to systematically assist local districts to delineate, organize, plan, and implement career education programs, this planning guide presents a twelve-part task analysis. The twelve task analysis sheets are designed to suggest methods and techniques for local school districts of use in achieving twelve goals established by the Nebraska…

The following skills are required for librarians to serve effectively as learning consultants: (1) analyze social and educational trends and discern learning needs; (2) analyze the competencies needed by librarians; (3) identify methods appropriate to achieve self-learning goals; (4) design learning sequences; (5) given client characteristics,…

In New York State, Cooperative Extension's principal goal in community resource development is, through education, to increase the effectiveness in making and implementing public decisions concerning improvements in the quality and level of living of all people. Education and adaptive research are the two basic roles Extension will use to achieve…

Georgia Southern University (GSU) and Bulloch Memorial Hospital (BMH) undertook a joint project to enhance education services to students, professionals, and the community at large. University services of the College of Education and the Henderson Library were aligned with the educational services of Bulloch Memorial Hospital to provide resources…