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Natrona County School District, Casper, WY. – 1976
A three-year model project in career education was undertaken to accomplish several goals, including the following: to provide a strong guidance and counseling program; to design programs to increase self-awareness, favorable attitudes, and career decision-making skills; and to provide career orientation and exploratory experiences for students.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs
Martin, Keith – Phi Delta Kappan, 1975
The Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences in Binghamton, New York, brings art, music, drama, and science to public school children. (DW)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Artists, Community Resources, Cultural Enrichment
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Greene, Charlene – School Arts, 1989
Explains the Artists-in-Education program in Butte, Montana, which exposes students to practicing professional artists. Artists demonstrate and discuss their work, and involve students in projects in their medium. Both students and teachers are exposed to new equipment, materials, and ideas. (LS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Materials, Art Teachers
Sims, William D.; Hammond, Sandra B. – 1981
The study reviews 50 foreign language programs in the United States that are said to be both inspirational and useful for providing concrete information about the creation and preservation of successful language programs. The programs cited are exemplary and can serve as models for educators and administrators to study and visit. Program selection…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1982
This report reviews the 31 exemplary vocational guidance and counseling projects in Virginia during the 1981-82 school year and includes a brief summary of each project, its objectives and methodology, and the name, address, institutional affiliation, and phone number of the project director. Nine of the abstracts deal with programs to increase…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Resources, Counselor Training
Norwalk Board of Education, CT. – 1976
The methods used during 1975-76 in the career education program in Norwalk (Connecticut) were designed for each grade level--elementary, middle school, and high school. (The program began with a Federally funded pilot program in the spring of 1972 in three schools and has expanded, over a four and one-half year period, to a total program in all 25…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
San Diego County Dept. of Education, CA. – 1984
The San Diego County (California) Adopt-A-School program, established in the spring of 1982, is a partnership program that has paired San Diego schools at all grade levels with local businesses, military commands, and service organizations. The purpose of Adopt-A-School is to foster better understanding of public schools in San Diego, strengthen…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Organizations, Community Resources, Community Support
Freedman, Susan; Keenan, Rayna – 1987
This handbook contains 30 profiles describing school-community partnerships in Massachusetts that address diverse educational issues with creative strategies and solutions. The programs exemplify one or more of the following community education principles: use of community resources to enhance curriculum and instruction; citizen involvement in the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Community Education, Community Resources
Olson, Jerry C. – 1976
Some of the tasks undertaken by the Pittsburgh Public Schools over the past 10 years in the continuing effort to make desegregation work include the construction of new buildings and the renovation of old, restructuring of school attendance patterns, development of innovative programs, utilization of community resources and support, and the…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs
Peters, Richard – 1978
The Career Awareness Program (CAP) not only showed how improved school-community relations impact on quality instruction and student growth, but also resulted in identification of variables which affect curriculum change and program development in small, rural schools; these variables were administrative philosophies, community attitudes and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Resources
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Inst. on Community Integration. – 1997
The Student Driven Collaborative Transitioning model is a comprehensive program that addresses the needs of 2,436 students with disabilities from elementary through high school in the Kenosha United School District No. 1 in Wisconsin. The majority of the students have specific learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, or mental retardation.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Development, Career Education, Community Resources
Weatherman, Richard – 1983
The experiences of the 3-year Minnesota Severely Handicapped Delivery System Project have led to a model which utilizes resources of regional systems as key elements of a differentiated system for educational service delivery to the handicapped in rural areas and involves state education agencies, statewide regional centers, local education units,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, Community Problems, Community Resources
Dale, Jack – 1976
Examples of placement and follow-up conceptual models developed for a program of vocational education (kindergarten through university) are presented. Section 1 contains a historical overview of placement and follow-up activities in Florida and describes a comprehensive model. Section 2, describing a model for utilizing community resources for the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Colleges, Community Resources, Computer Oriented Programs