This book provides tested, easy-to-implement strategies for preventing problem behavior in the classroom and responding effectively when it does occur. Chapters describe specific steps that K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals can take to develop effective classroom rules and routines; plan suitably challenging instruction; and…

How can schools create safe, well-supervised classroom environments while also teaching students skills for managing their behavior on their own? This invaluable guide presents a framework for achieving both of these crucial goals. It shows how to balance external reinforcements such as positive behavior supports with social-emotional learning…

The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a nonprofit service which provides libraries and organizations needing permission to make copies legally with a simple, centralized mechanism through which to report and to pay for copying after it has been done, with no delay for users. This handbook for libraries and organizations which copy from serials…

Discusses four new book photocopiers and major equipment factors--paper, toner, ultraviolet light, and machine design--that should be considered in preservation photocopying. An approach for selecting a copier is suggested. The appendix includes a table of specification data for the copiers and a checklist for copier evaluation. (25 references)…

Effective, "schoolwide" inclusion ensures the best outcomes for all students--but how can school teams knock down the barriers to inclusion and make sure it's happening across all classrooms? This concise book gives principals and other school leaders the solution they've been waiting for: a clear framework for leading inclusion efforts,…

Focusing on the production and utilization of printing processes in constructing effective visuals for teaching, this bulletin contains articles on the silk screening stencil process, use of a similar process with a portable mimeograph, and the hectograph process. The first article lists equipment needed to make a silk screen, steps in building…

Rules and guidelines are provided governing the selection of documents and journal articles to be included in the ERIC database. Selection criteria are described under the five headings: (1) Appropriateness of content/subject matter; (2) Suitability of format, medium, document type; (3) Quality of content; (4) Legibility and reproducibility; (5)…

Intended for use by archivists, curators, and others responsible for the acquisition and preservation of documentary materials in photographic form, this publication describes the nature of photographic media and recommended conservation measures. It is noted that the major emphasis is on black-and-white photographic materials, with some…

Rules and guidelines are provided governing the selection of documents and journal articles to be included in the ERIC database. Selection criteria are described under the five headings: (1) Appropriateness of content/subject matter; (2) Suitability of format, medium, document type; (3) Quality of content; (4) Legibility and reproducibility; (5)…

The Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright Law Revision describes its position in a question and answer format. General questions about the committee and its objectives are followed by a description of the differing needs of copyright holders and educators. Since the committee's primary concern is that educators have adequate access to and use of…

All phases of a newsletter operation are covered in this guide for the inexperienced newsletter editor. Separate chapters deal with establishing the purpose of the newsletter; gathering, writing, and editing stories; choosing format, paper, letterhead, mailing procedure, and methods of financing the newsletter; working with type; printing by…

Discusses the necessity of preservation and conservation activities in school libraries to save materials such as school newspapers, programs of events, censorship records, board activities, yearbooks, and student projects. Topics discussed include brittle, deteriorating paper; monitoring the physical environment, including heat, light, humidity,…

Supporting performance objective 78 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on mastering the offset master are included in this packet. (The packet is the eleventh in a set of fifteen on typewriting--CE 016 920-934.) The student materials…

Discusses the use of copyright notices in libraries on reproducing equipment, including photocopiers, computer printers, videocassette recorders, and audiotape recorders; and presents guidelines to determine what works are in the public domain in the United States and the United Kingdom. A sidebar describes a new library copyright guide. (LRW)

The third of four volumes in a series describing the basic documentation practices involved in the initial setting up and subsequent operation of an information-library organization to provide defense-aerospace scientific and technical information services, this manual consists of three sections. "Information Retrieval," by Tom Norton,…