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Peer reviewedLindeman, Betsy – Educational Leadership, 2001
Educators at two elementary schools in Arlington, Virginia, have designed evening programs to help immigrant parents acclimate to U.S. schooling practices. One school has a program that orients parents and explains teachers' expectations while children learn socialization skills. The other school combines a similar program with parent volunteer…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Evening Programs, Family Programs
Download full textKundert, Bette L. – 2000
The materials and ideas in this document are intended to be used by teachers in schools in order to bring adults and children together to experience good mathematics. It features an evening of hands-on mathematics scheduled for one night a week for four weeks. Students and adults come together to share mathematics activities, solve problems, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evening Programs, Family Programs, Geometry
Kundert, Bette L. – 2000
The materials and ideas in this document are intended to be used by teachers in schools in order to bring adults and children together to experience good mathematics. It features an evening of hands-on mathematics scheduled for one night a week for four weeks. Students and adults come together to share mathematics activities, solve problems, and…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Family Programs, Geometry, Mathematics Activities
Jackson, Laura Christion – Currents, 1998
Three alumni officers offer ideas for developing unique and appealing alumni events for colleges and universities with large proportions of nontraditional students. They include family events, networking and mentoring opportunities, brown-bag lunches, evening courses and events, travel programs, and programs geared to those professions in which…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Administration, Commuter Colleges, Continuing Education
Maehrlein, Joyce J. – 1993
A series of marketing and early intervention strategies were developed to increase female enrollment in technology education (TE) in a New Jersey township with residents of all social classes/income levels. Among the main project activities were the following: (1) development of a comprehensive curriculum intervention called Technology Education…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Early Intervention, Enrollment Management
Cruz, Jane – 1993
The report describes the development and implementation of Literacy Is For Everyone (LIFE), an English-as-a-Second-Language literacy program for limited-English-speaking immigrant families of students at Falls Church High School (Virginia). Participating families attended evening classes, groups, and workshops to develop literacy skills and become…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Thinking, Day Care
