This quantitative correlational study dives into the heart of understanding the significance of model fidelity for implementing school threat assessment teams. The target population was instructional staff and threat assessment team members from schools in Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester Counties in New York State that use the Comprehensive…

This report provides a framework for local adult literacy program evaluation. Section 1 lists questions to achieve a consensus regarding the scope and nature of the desired evaluation; lists the five basic steps to design an evaluation of the program; and provides an evaluation report outline. Section 2 describes the following questionnaires that…

This handbook seeks to help Head Start parent involvement coordinators clarify their role and explore new ways to do their job well. In chapter one, a history of parent involvement in Head Start is presented. Chapter two focuses on roles, relationships, and duties of the parent involvement coordinator. Chapter three explores staff attitudes…

Volume 10 of the 19-volume Highway Safety Program Manual (which provides guidance to State and local governments on preferred highway safety practices) focuses on traffic records. The purpose and specific objectives of a traffic records program are discussed. Federal authority in the area of highway safety and policies regarding a traffic records…

Organized around eight topics, this document provides guidelines for Oregon school district health services programs for students in preschool/kindergarten through grade twelve. A list of principles related to health program development, a summary of related health legislation, and a checklist for assessing compliance with Oregon administration…

Intended for use by individuals involved in the operation of adult literacy programs, this handbook is a compilation of the successful operational procedures that some of the directors of the Right to Read Reading Academies have used in administering their respective programs. It also attempts to address the programmatic concerns that program…

This planning guide for inservice vocational teacher education is one of a series of materials developed by the Comprehensive Vocational Teacher Education Program for the Mississippi ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) Region to provide teacher educators, vocational directors, teachers, and other appropriate individuals with material needed to…

This resource package contains an administrator's manual and nine instructor guides designed to assist local education agency personnel in the development of functional and systematic procedures for identifying and assessing the needs of special students enrolled in vocational education programs. The administrator's manual provides a description…

In the Texas Education Agency's administrative guide for programs involving the education of migrant children, various topics of interest to migrant educators are discussed in relation to the Texas Child Migrant Program: stated philosophies of, and guidelines for, migrant education, instructional programs, and preschool programs; different program…

This sample guide is intended to assist local Kentucky education agencies to establish policies and procedures to fulfill the legal requirements of Child Find, a federally mandated program to locate, identify, and evaluate children with disabilities. Generally provided for each legal requirement are an example of the concept, suggestions for…

This guide has been developed to assist administrators and teacher-coordinators in New Jersey in planning and implementing cooperative home economics programs. The guide is organized in five sections that focus on the administration of a cooperative home economics program. The first section describes the program, providing information on the…

This handbook is designed to help Texas junior/community college administrators and instructor-coordinators of marketing and distributive education to plan, implement, operate, and expand mid-management programs. The handbook contains five sections. Following the introductory first section that reviews the purpose, history, philosophy, and…

Drawn primarily from the experiences of the minority Women Employment Program (MWEP) of the Recruitment and Training Program (RTP, Inc.), material in this handbook is provided as a reference for individuals and groups engaged in efforts to place underutilized minorities and women into jobs they have not traditionally held. Outlines of the…

Aid to teachers planning and implementing a child-centered prekindergarten program is offered in this comprehensive guide. After a brief introduction, sections of the guide (1) address the topics of separation and adjustment; (2) present sample room arrangements and suggest ideas for management routines, scheduling, planning, and ordering of…

This handbook, written for volunteer coordinators working with programs in adult basic education (ABE) and English as a second language (ESL), consists of information dealing with the planning, day-to-day coordination, and followup efforts needed to utilize volunteers effectively. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following…