National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Environmental Literacy Program (ELP) Community Resilience Education Theory of Change communicates the overarching philosophy guiding its grants program. It can also be used to inform project-level logic models, ensuring that a project's activities, outcomes, and goals are aligned with the…

One of the goals of physical education, according to The Society of Health and Physical Educators, is for children to establish "patterns of regular participation in meaningful physical activity." However, participation alone in physical education classes is not enough for students to reach daily recommended levels of physical activity.…

The emergence of the standards-based reform movement has raised a number of issues related to the design of educational programs for students with severe disabilities, and a debate has arisen that presents an "either/or" choice between the general education curriculum and an ecological curricular framework that has traditionally guided…

Four-stage model is presented as a way of achieving diversity in the means and ends of education primarily through more educational planning at the local level. (HD)

This monograph presents specific guidelines for use by school administrators in developing educational consensus in a school and with a community. The authors describe their success in identifying priorities and achieving objectives by using an "annual school plan," which focuses on specific, short-range objectives that can be realized…

Described the development of the Communiversity, a school designed to fulfill the post-secondary needs of the community through a systematic process of identifying a school curriculum by finding the needs of the community and placing them in some hierarchy of priorities. (Author/RK)

To educate young people to be productive citizens and to ensure that the democratic objective of equality is realized, service learning must adopt an alternative paradigm that promotes the ideals and values of participatory democracy. Three problematic assumptions of service learning are that (1) good citizenship requires students to "give" back…

To help Connecticut school districts both develop goals and involve the community in the process--phase 1 of the planning, evaluation, and resource management (PERM) model--this handbook discusses goal-setting processes and models. An introduction notes the state's educational goals, outlines the PERM model, and describes the role of goals in…

Describes the activities of two Head Start programs, Murray Head Start in Murray, Kentucky, and Inn-Circle in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Both programs integrate families into wider communities, and bring community resources into their programs to better serve parents and children. Both programs illustrate how Head Start can become a community hub for…

Intended as a simple, economical method of needs assessment, this model presents four primary tasks: goal definition, program assessment, needs identification, and decision-making. Each step is explained in detail and sample instruments, preplans, goals, and questionnaire items are given. The needs assessment concept is defined as a blending of…

A short history of the Community Free School, the relationship of scattered schools to the pedagogical model, a presentation of the substance of the study, and its results and conclusions. (DM)

Sixteen New Jersey school districts located in four counties were selected to field test a generic educational planning system. The pilot program was to "ascertain where changes in guidelines, procedures, policy program, or resources were needed." The second major goal of the pilot program was to produce information for those districts…

This publication was prepared for the Alaska Department of Education in order to supplement units C and E of the 1976 "Guide for Planning Educational Facilities." It is intended to provide school districts with process guidelines for community participation in the planning of school facilities, particularly small secondary school…

This school district guide examines the why of long-range planning, the relationship between long-range planning and educational change, the long-range planning process, community involvement in planning, the communicating of educational quality assessment and other needs assessment results with the public, needs assessment, prioritizing district…