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Ma. Cristilina Montañez; Marcelina S. Deiparine; Geselle Ann Catalan; Shaira Monique Ballares – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
One of a University's four functions is to extend sustainable training programs that will help address any social issue in the community. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a University extension program. It focuses on the participants' skills acquired from the program and how they influence their job performance and quality of life. This…
Descriptors: Universities, Extension Education, Sustainability, College Curriculum
Ignizio, Graham Stefan – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2018
This article discusses the unique situation of teaching an upper-level, undergraduate Spanish conversation course with a service-learning component at a large, public, urban university. With the help of service-learning literature and anonymous pre- and post-surveys, this study aims to offer some qualitative observations and advice on…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Conversational Language Courses, Spanish, Nontraditional Students
Baker, Michaela; Beale, Alison; Hammersley, Laura; Lloyd, Kate; Semple, Anne-Louise; White, Karolyn – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2013
In 2008, Macquarie University instituted the Participation and Community Engagement (PACE) initiative. This initiative embeds units in the curriculum that involve learning through participation (LTP) that is mutually beneficial to the student, the University and the organisation or community in which student participation activities take place.…
Descriptors: Ethics, College Students, College Instruction, Teaching Methods
Rivera, Jessica; Donovan-Pendzic, Esperanza; Marion, Mary Jo – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
The English Language Learner (ELL) Summer Camp in Worcester, Massachusetts--an intensive six-week program that served middle school and high school students from Worcester Public Schools (WPS)--was the product of a five-way partnership that included the school district, higher education institutions (Latino Education Institute [LEI] at Worcester…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, Enrichment Activities
Ferreira, Maria M.; Grueber, David; Yarema, Sandra – School Community Journal, 2012
Today's children spend less and less time in the outdoors, leading Richard Louv in 2008 to coin the term "nature deficit disorder." Louv pointed out that experiences with nature are essential to a child's physical and emotional development and that the lack of these types of experiences has led to an increase in child obesity, attention…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Environment, Partnerships in Education, Elementary School Students
Schools Network, 2010
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in education. SSAT has a membership of over 5,500 schools and growing numbers of affiliated universities, colleges and local authorities. This paper presents SSAT's plan which sets out its…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Specialists, Achievement Gains
Perry, Bob; Howard Peter – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2008
From 1999-2005, the Mathematics in Indigenous Contexts (MIC) project was implemented by the Board of Studies, New South Wales (NSW), in conjunction with the NSW Department of Education and Training, and academics from two universities. MIC project members worked with schools and communities at two sites: a primary school in an urban community in…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary Schools
Slavkin, Michael; Braysmith, Hilary; Faust, Norma – School-University Partnerships, 2010
The purpose of this article is to review a partnership between a teacher education department and a dropout prevention program. The partnership developed from a variety of communities' needs, no less of which was that of reconnecting marginalized youth at a local dropout prevention school with their community through cultural and civic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Schools of Education, Dropout Programs
Schools Network, 2009
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in secondary education. SSAT has a membership of over 5,300 schools and growing numbers of affiliated universities, colleges and local authorities. This corporate plan sets out SSAT's main work for…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Specialists
Parker, Reese – 1989
The Drug Infusion Project, sought to Discretionary Fund of the Secretary of Education, sought to infuse drug education into ongoing subjects at all grade levels and to promote thinking of drug education as being done at the same time, rather than in addition to, ongoing subjects. The background of the project came from the Department of Education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Jordan, Catherine, Ed.; Parker, Joe, Ed.; Donnelly, Deborah, Ed.; Rudo, Zena, Ed. – SEDL, 2009
This Guide is intended to share the insights of SEDL's National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning (the National Partnership) as well as information about both the academic and the organizational and management practices that successful afterschool programs use. The authors have organized these practices into the following four focus…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, After School Programs, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives
Harrington-Lueker, Donna – American School Board Journal, 1990
Schools are experimenting with community service programs. Among these are service-based intervention programs for at-risk children and K-12 curricula of community service. Cites examples, the characteristics of effective programs, and proposed federal legislation. (MLF)
Descriptors: Community Services, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Schools Network, 2008
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in secondary education. It has a membership of over 4900 schools and organisations. SSAT works with head teachers, teachers and students to encourage them to develop and share new and effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Specialists, Achievement Gains

Kolbe, Tom – Primary Voices K-6, 1999
Describes a three-year collaborative project, Investigating Our Community, involving teachers and fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Focuses on moving from mandated curriculum that defines inquiry with known outcomes to inquiry that explores the unknown knowledge and stories of their school's neighborhood. Finds that a community investigation…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Relations, Curriculum Development, Grade 4
Blakers, C. – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
The author argues that quality in schooling can be attained or judged only in relation to what are conceived to be the purposes of schooling, and that concepts of the purposes of schooling differ within the society and change according to the changing circumstances of the society. (CT)
Descriptors: Administration, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Environment