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Duganne-Glicksman, Mary Ann; Dutton, Donna H. – 1988
This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on effective community advisory committees (CACs). The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional collaboration. Each…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Development, Community Programs, Disabilities
Carlisle, Lynn; Lesniak, Pat – 1988
This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on community advisory committee leadership training. The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional collaboration. Each…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Development, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Anderson, Donald L. – 1999
Conventional anti-poverty efforts have failed because they have not created the structures for the poor to help themselves, and they are designed and controlled by people outside of the affected communities. Introduced in 1968 by the National Association of the Southern Poor, the Assembly is a non-political structure that organizes community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations, Economically Disadvantaged
Benson, Lee; Harkavy, Ira – Principal Leadership, 2001
Significant, multisector community partnerships are a prerequisite for sustained, systemwide pre-Kindergarten through college-level educational reform. Like a few others, the University of Pennsylvania is developing higher education-assisted community schools designed to help educators educate, engage, activate, and serve all community members.…
Descriptors: Activism, College School Cooperation, Community Development, Community Schools
Smyre, Rick – Updating School Board Policies, 1987
In response to pervasive problems of low income, anticipated loss of employment in the textile industry, high dropout rates, high crime rates, and poor relationships among municipalities, Gaston County, North Carolina, has developed an innovative set of processes for promoting cooperation and facilitating leadership techniques. The Gaston System…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Change, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination
McGinty, Sue – 2002
As community assets, schools are central to community development and are best suited to provide a learning community that can build the whole community's capacity to address educational disadvantage. Community capacity building means strengthening a community's ability to become self-reliant by increasing social cohesion and social capital. In…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Community Development
MDC, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 2001
The traditional economic development strategy of the South--concentrating on low-skill, low-wage labor--no longer works; the region cannot compete with other areas of the world that offer low-cost, high-skill labor. The challenges facing rural and central-city communities in the South are immense, and only a comprehensive approach to economic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Development
Collins, Timothy; Branham, Dan – 1999
This paper proposes a model in which the rural school becomes an active agent in community economic development through leadership development and civic education. Families, school, and community are the three pillars of public education, and the concept of community engagement is crucial to rebuilding this educational partnership and creating an…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Development
Kusimo, Patricia S.; Keyes, Marian; Balow, Nancy; Carter, Carolyn S.; Poe, Renee – 1999
A conference on economic development, education, and rural community engagement brought representatives from higher education, government agencies, and education research together with experts in community revitalization and activism to discuss how efforts might be coordinated across disciplines to accomplish lasting reforms in poor, rural…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Resources, Disadvantaged, Economic Development