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Balfanz, Robert – Educational Leadership, 2011
The Talent Development program at Johns Hopkins, City Year, and Communities in Schools have created a new middle school and high school model that reduces dropout risk. Diplomas Now integrates strategies that are designed to raise student achievement, promotion, and graduation rates in the nation's most challenged high-poverty secondary schools. A…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Prevention, Talent Development, At Risk Students
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Marx, Eva; Northrop, Daphne – Educational Leadership, 2000
A 1987 model for a coordinated school health program included a healthy environment, comprehensive health education, physical education, health and nutrition services, counseling, staff health promotion, and family and community involvement. Effective programs in two low-resource areas--Providence, Rhode Island, and Animas, New Mexico--are…
Descriptors: Community Support, Counseling, Elementary Education, Health Education
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Boyte, Harry C.; Skelton, Nan – Educational Leadership, 1997
The nation's educational system mirrors the dynamics of our marketplace democracy, recasting parents as self-interested consumers. Jane Addams' philosophy of education (enhancing people's productive capacities to benefit the commonweal) has been revived in Public Achievement, a work-centered, civic-earning program in St.Paul, Minnesota, that helps…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cooperation, Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values
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Maguire, Sue – Educational Leadership, 2000
Molly Stark School in Bennington, Vermont, is a year-round community school that offers a range of education, health and social services benefiting the students, community, and parents. Five successful initiatives (after-school, birth-to-5, mentoring, health and wellness, and parent literacy and involvement programs) are described. (MLH)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Schools, Elementary Education, Family Programs
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Lewis, Ron; Morris, John – Educational Leadership, 1998
Founded in 1977, "Communities in Schools" champions the connection of needed community resources with schools to help 300,000 youngsters annually to learn, stay in school, and prepare for life. The program brings in community-service providers, such as health-care and mental-health professionals, to work as a personalized team alongside…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fowler, R. Clarke; Corley, Kathy Klebs – Educational Leadership, 1996
A year-round magnet elementary school in Salem, Massachusetts, has increased its family involvement by borrowing elements from many models. The school has mixed-age groupings, integrated social services, and community outreach strategies such as a parent center, business-sponsored Friday clubs, and celebrations of learning. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Integrated Services, Magnet Schools, Mixed Age Grouping
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Nunez, Ralph da Costa; Collignon, Kate – Educational Leadership, 1997
Over 750,000 U.S. school-age children are homeless. Schools can eliminate attendance and environmental barriers sabotaging these children's education by becoming communities of learning that provide specialized education for children, contextualized education for parents, and linkages to needed services. The Bronx's Brownstone School, Chicago's…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Homeless People
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Pasi, Raymond J. – Educational Leadership, 1997
At a private high school in Providence, Rhode Island, students benefit from Big Brother and Sister programs, peer mediation, and lessons in emotional intelligence across the curriculum. These activities are part of a comprehensive social and emotional education program called "Success for Life." For nearly 20 years, seniors have been…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence, High Schools
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Cairn, Rich; Cairn, Susan – Educational Leadership, 1999
Nearly 100 Minnesota secondary schools offer community service-learning courses. Assessment methods include journal writing, self-assessment, research papers, site observations, and performance evaluation by agency supervisors. A Rochester high-school teacher designed a "community interaction" standard that students may fulfill by…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Journal Writing, Program Descriptions
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Smith, David B. – Educational Leadership, 1997
For six weeks, 25 Connecticut seventh graders interviewed senior citizens from a nearby assisted-independent-living facility. By celebrating their senior partners' life experiences, students formulated a better understanding of major events in 20th century American history. During the fifth and sixth weeks, students shared something from their own…
Descriptors: Biographies, Grade 7, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intergenerational Programs
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Dundon, Barbara L. – Educational Leadership, 2000
Students participating in Need in Deed's "My Voice" program perform community service while engaging in a self-discovery process. Exercises focus on what kids care about, what they would like to change, and five social issues they would like to study and report on to others. (MLH)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Empathy
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Boston, Bruce O. – Educational Leadership, 1999
After taking an environmental inventory of their community, seventh-graders in a Denver-area middle school decided to tackle the drinking water problem and fix it. The school is one of seven participating in Earth Force, an environmental and community-service-learning program based in Alexandria, Virginia. The program's progress and six-step…
Descriptors: Activism, Environmental Education, Grade 7, Hands on Science
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Rappoport, Ann L.; Kletzien, Sharon – Educational Leadership, 1996
Sponsored by West Chester University and the local League of Women Voters, the Kids Around Town Program is helping some Pennsylvania elementary school children develop responsible citizenship by involving them in community service activities. Students select a public policy issue affecting them. This issue serves as a springboard for study and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lensch, John E. – Educational Leadership, 1997
A large portion of the general public, including senior citizens, feels disconnected from local schools. Some seniors see little reason to support tax increases to provide public education's programs and services. Highland Park Learning Center, in Roanoke City, Virginia, has brought retirees back with an innovative program that teaches basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Schools, Community Services, Computer Literacy
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Anderson, James P.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1997
At Horizonte, an alternative Utah high school, students help direct their own learning. The five guiding principles resemble fundamental beliefs more than specific strategies. Curriculum is shaped to meet student needs and learning styles, technology access is universal, the program is inclusive and multicultural, students are assisted to meet…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values, High Schools
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