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Peer reviewedSussell, Ardis; And Others – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1996
The Family Support Services program of the Washtenaw Intermediate School District in Michigan encourages active collaboration between parents of children with special needs and professionals. This article addresses the history and philosophy of parent involvement; a district survey of family needs which identified information as the highest ranked…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Needs, Family Programs
Hunter, Constance L.; And Others – 1980
This manual is a practical guide for use by schools of education which must comply with the Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards for Approval of Teacher Certification Programs. These standards require that competencies needed to educate students in least restrictive environments be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate degree…
Descriptors: Competence, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Faculty Development
Download full textOhio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Office of Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1984
The purpose of this handbook is to provide guidelines for developing and implementing structured parent/community involvement programs in bilingual education and English as a Second Language (ESL) programs in local school districts. Section One concerns the assessment of school, parent, and community needs; this section contains suggestions for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Magmer, Jeanne; Russell, Ronald, Ed. – 1980
Designed to provide specific, practical help for educators in starting or improving school public relations programs, this guide tells how to make each school building the focal point in informing the public about programs and activities, building confidence in what schools are doing, developing an awareness of the importance of education, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Citizen Participation, Communications, Elementary Secondary Education
Careaga, Rudy, Comp. – 1988
This program guide is based on two handbooks developed by the Departments of Education in Ohio and New Jersey, each of which was used to help local school districts comply with state requirements for parent involvement programs. Primary components include the following: day and evening workshops for parents as tutors; full-time community…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Goal Orientation, Guidelines
Evaluation--Title IV Program Indian Education Act. Rice School District No. 20, San Carlos, Arizona.
National Indian Training and Research Center, Tempe, AZ. – 1978
A needs assessment survey to determine the kinds of activities that would best serve the motivational and academic needs of Apache students was submitted to 900 parents of children attending the Rice Elementary School District on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona. The six top priority items suggested by the parents included home…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, American Indians, Counseling Services, Elementary Education
Krutilla, Jennifer O.; And Others – 1992
This pilot study used a multidisciplinary, ethnographic approach to evaluate effects of prenatal drug exposure on four cocaine/polydrug-exposed infants and their rural mothers/caregivers and to begin development of a model training program. The study involved document review of hospital and social services records, participant observation,…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Congenital Impairments, Drug Abuse, Ethnography
Iowa State Council on Vocational Education, Des Moines. – 1996
This handbook provides educators with a step-by-step guide to partnering with parents. Introductory materials include research findings and beliefs about parent involvement in schools and a checklist to determine if the educator is ready to develop a partnership with parents. The eight steps to a parent/school partnership follow. Step 1, define…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Compensatory/Bilingual Education. – 1984
This handbook provides information to New Jersey school district administrators for developing involvement programs for the parents of children of limited English proficiency. First, the benefits of parent involvement, and the roles of educators and parents are outlined. Then, a philosophy and rationale for parent involvement is presented, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Objectives
Woods, Ruth Dial; And Others – 1978
Robeson County, North Carolina, has the largest Indian population in the state. There are 25,684 Lumbee Indians in the county; Indian students comprise 61 percent of the school population. In compliance with Title IV-A regulations, a 1978-79 needs assessment was conducted to allow the Indian community participation in the development of cultural…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Indians, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
Based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education Consortium, this report presents training strategies for a variety of community-school collaboration efforts. Eleven training strategies are presented: (1) providing an in-school visitation day for business…
Descriptors: Activities, Audiovisual Instruction, Career Education, Check Lists
Harrison, Susan B.; Johnson, Merrill – 1976
Provided is a manual compiled by the Southwest Regional Resource Center identifying and articulating the process steps required to establish services for severely handicapped children in a public school setting. Offered are seven planning elements (population baseline, appraisal resources, schools and physical facility resources, transportation,…
Descriptors: Architectural Barriers, Curriculum Guides, Definitions, Delivery Systems
