"Reclaiming the Education Doctorate: A Guidebook for (re)Designing EdD Programs" is a practical guide for those seeking to (re)design a professional practice doctorate program in education that prepares Scholarly Practitioners. To tackle the comprehensive change process necessary for (re)designing the EdD, this book will guide the reader…

Considering the growing social and emotional pressures among young people in today's society, it is crucial to provide them with meaningful developmental programs. For many years, sport settings have been considered beneficial platforms for counteracting the adverse influences on socially vulnerable youths. Utilizing sport in youth development…

This publication is the new edition of EDC's popular 2011 guide by the same name, completely revised to include lessons learned over the last decade, including the massive move to online learning during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Drawing on data from 188 countries and nearly 700 publications, this comprehensive guide explores distance education…

Improving Social and Emotional Learning in Primary Schools reviews the best available research to offer school leaders six practical recommendations to support good SEL for all children. It stresses this is especially important for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and other vulnerable groups, who, on average, have weaker SEL skills at all…

"The Global Framework on Transferable Skills" has been developed to support UNICEF in delivering on the results of its "Strategic Plan 2018-2021" and "Every Child Learns: UNICEF Education Strategy 2019-2030," and provides a shared vision of work on skills development across UNICEF. The Framework guides UNICEF country…

This guide begins with background information useful to understanding Illinois' framework for implementation and evaluation of Programs of Study. It starts with a visual depiction of the relationships between activity at the federal, state and local levels that evolved to the creation of Illinois' Career Cluster Model. This Model, which is based…

Effective, "schoolwide" inclusion ensures the best outcomes for all students--but how can school teams knock down the barriers to inclusion and make sure it's happening across all classrooms? This concise book gives principals and other school leaders the solution they've been waiting for: a clear framework for leading inclusion efforts,…

Intended for researchers, scholars, and policy makers who are interested in family-oriented education programs for disadvantaged groups, this monograph examines the Mountain-Plains Career Education Model IV, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a…

Constructed for use by individuals analyzing the status and problems of local reading programs and systematically seeking and developing solutions, this handbook is a programed self-study guide which may be used by a committee or task force to collect data and make decisions. The handbook contains eleven charts which may be used to summarize…

The Indiana Department of Education recently convened a task force to identify essential values and to determine how these values can be successfully infused into school curricula. Accordingly, in collaboration with the Indiana School Counselors Association (ISCA), the Department established a working committee to construct a developmentally…

Using the example of a Career Education Model developed by the Orange County, California Consortium, the document provides guidelines for setting up career education programs in local educational agencies. Component levels, a definition of career education, and Consortium program background are discussed. Subsequent chapters include: Program…

Guidelines resulting from a demonstration project to test approaches and methods in providing direct educational opportunities to the aging are provided. The sections of this book of guidelines are: Introduction--Why This Book of Guidelines (A Philosophy for Developing Educational Programs for the Aging, Basic Facts About the Aging, and The Aging…

This publication is intended to provide a reference for teachers, counselors, and administrators in planning, administering and conducting vocational and technical programs in agribusiness, natural resources and environmental protection at the postsecondary level. The material is presented in sections, each with a list of selected references, as…

The Achieving-Behaving-Caring (ABC) Program is an evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties and promoting successful home-school collaboration. This practical guide demonstrates how classroom teachers and parents can work together to boost individual children's…

This publication discusses application of the project management process to the management of an instructional program implementation effort. It is intended to supplement the implementation manuals that usually accompany new instructional programs to aid school district personnel in successfully implementing new instructional programs. The…