A New York state mini-grant was used to open a resource center in a school health suite. Resources in sensitive content areas such as family life education and death education were gathered here for easy, but controlled, access by parents, teachers, and children. (MJB)

Describes a resource center of an experimental education program in which staff members show children how to find people and places to learn from in the community and how to become independent learners. (ED)

The Museum Resource Center in Waterford, New York, is a pullout program where gifted elementary students work on individual projects in science, technology, or the humanities. Students engage in five tasks in developing a museum display: selcting a topic, exploring it in depth, constructing a display to illustrate their findings, demonstrating…

Through a private grant, Encinitas Union School District is developing a new art education program which features the videotaping of lessons and demonstrations by community artists and the incorporation of these videotapes with exhibits and workshops into a resource library for teachers. (Author/SJL)

Describes the philosophy, objectives, services, and experimental research of the Abadina Media Resource Center, which provides library services, materials, and education to elementary school students and provides research and training facilities for Nigerian teachers and school librarians. (Author/CWM)

The author describes an arts resource center, which serves elementary and middle-school teachers and students. The ARC (Arts Resource Center) provides an area for creating instructional materials, brainstorming, researching, and for conducting classes in arts and workshops for both art and classroom teachers. (KC)

Describes a resource center program which involved parents in the collection of ideas and materials for teachers to use in learning projects. (SDH)

Iowa's 16 regional educational media centers are described. Following a brief overview of the history of the centers and of their current functions as service organizations which work with county and local agencies to improve instruction in the state's schools, two page discussions of each of the individual centers are presented. Specific details…

This summary provides an overview of Project OPTION, designed to reduce the influence of sex role stereotyping on student career choice; to increase student, parent, school, and community awareness of the negative consequences of sex bias; and to promote sex-fair and sex-affirmative teaching strategies. The materials include: (1) background…

Described is a Georgia county school system's program which began in 1972 for behaviorally disordered children (kindergarten through high school). Opening chapters include a rationale for the program, a definition of behavior disorders, and a list of program objectives such as identifying children with behavior disorders and assisting them to…

The project presented here explored the possibility of using computer-based systems to increase information access to non-text children's materials at the pre-school through elementary (6th grade) school levels. This final report includes an indicative summary as well as ten separate papers that describe a range of applications of proven computer…

Reviews Kentucky's efforts to increase family and community involvement in its public school reform. These efforts include a new structure for the traditional elementary school; Family Resource Centers; and school-based decision making. Also shares some parents' perspectives on how these changes are shaping their children's school experiences. (BB)

Presents two examples from 1990 curriculum guide written for Pullen School. Designed for middle school students, "The Japanese Gardener as Visual Artist" emphasizes nature in aesthetic depictions including architecture, horticulture, and visual arts. Appropriate for primary grades, "Reading/Language Arts: Using Books from the…

This program guide is designed for elementary students that need special services to learn most efficiently. The program, conducted at three sites within the district and later validated at two other sites in Oregon, measures current behavior and develops an instructional sequence to meet prescribed objectives. The mainstreaming approach of the…

The Multnomah (Oregon) County Intermediate Education District conducted a three year project to develop a computer-based test development resource for classroom teachers. It sought: 1) to identify instructional objectives for various curricula and grade levels; 2) to develop a pool of test items to measure attainment of objectives; 3) to design a…