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Hammons, Frank T. – 1995
This document provides a process for evaluation of Florida's tech prep programs. It first summarizes the philosophy guiding tech prep activities in Florida and then it outlines the tech prep evaluation process. The evaluation process section includes the following: the goals and objectives of the process; its characteristics; the continuous…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Models, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
Download full textRepetto, Jeanne B.; And Others – 1994
Project RETAIN (Retention in Education Technical Assistance and Information Network) is a Florida project that assists school districts through identification and dissemination of effective practices that keep students with mild disabilities in school. One part of the project was the development of a database of school district efforts in the area…
Descriptors: Database Design, Databases, Dropout Prevention, Educational Practices
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Applied Tech., Adult, and Community Education. – 1998
This booklet provides an overview of the youth apprenticeship program in Florida. The 12 sections cover the following topics: (1) "why" youth apprenticeship; (2) goals and objectives of youth apprenticeship in Florida; (3) characteristics of youth apprenticeship; (4) how youth apprenticeship differs from other work-based learning…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning
Winterburn, Patty – Vocational Education Journal, 1995
Based on the "High Schools That Work" model, the Quad County Tech Prep Consortium in Florida has won several awards for its comprehensive tech prep program. The partnership enables technical students from four school districts to flow smoothly into an associate degree program at Indian River Community College. (JOW)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Consortia, Educational Change
Repetto, Jeanne B.; And Others – 1994
Project RETAIN (Retention in Education Technical Assistance and Information Network) is a Florida project that assists school districts through identification and dissemination of effective practices that keep students with mild disabilities in school. One part of the project was the development of a database of school district efforts in the area…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Databases, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
Volusia County Schools, Daytona Beach, FL. – 1987
The Volusia County (Florida) Single Parents Program was developed to identify single parents who are potential dropouts because of a lack of financial support for day care and to provide them with approved day care services. The program also features (1) cooperation between teachers and school guidance counselors to identify and counsel pregnant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Day Care, Dropout Prevention
Peer reviewedDryfoos, Joy G. – NASSP Bulletin, 1993
Schools can no longer act alone as surrogate parents. First appearing in Florida's innovative legislation, the full-service school concept is catching on in several other states. Full-service schools integrate education, medical, social, and/or human services to meet families' needs in easily accessible locations. Primary health centers are key…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Family Programs, Health Services, Principals
Schwartz, Stuart E. – 1978
A project was conducted to develop and field test self-instructional materials which would provide a mechanism for positive change in attitudes and procedures for educators and administrators toward integrating handicapped students into regular vocational education programs. Specific objectives of the project were as follows: (1) research and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Handicapped Students, Information Dissemination, Instructional Materials
Bashaw, W. L.; Wood, Paul L. – 1978
The major purpose of this project was to further develop, expand, diffuse, demonstrate, and evaluate an educational program which provides an experience-based career education (EBCE) component at the secondary level in three Florida school districts and one postsecondary site. These four components, acting as a consortium, were extensions of…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Education, Experiential Learning, Participant Satisfaction
Fletcher, Donna; Ogle, Peggy – 1986
The handbook is intended to provide practitioners with information on establishing and organizing a Human Growth and Development program in agencies and facilities which provide training to developmentally disabled persons. The handbook discusses the legal foundation (Florida law) for establishing the program as well as specific methods for…
Descriptors: Agencies, Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Mental Retardation
Becker, William J.; Cole, Jacquelyn M. – 1980
The purpose of this study was to determine which activities conducted in Florida secondary schools may have contributed to the reduction of sex stereotyping in selected vocational programs. Twenty-one secondary schools that appeared to have been the most succesful in achieving nontraditional enrollments and the 21 schools in the state reflecting…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Research, Equal Education, Females
Repetto, Jeanne B.; And Others – 1993
Project RETAIN (Retention in Education Technical Assistance and Information Network) is a Florida project to assist school districts through identification and dissemination of effective practices that keep students with mild disabilities in school. One part of the project attempted to establish a consensus among experts in the fields of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delphi Technique, Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship
Heath, Margaret Eleanor – 1975
This study attempted to identify the factors which have had significant influence on English teachers' attitudes and practices concerning the inclusion of career-education concepts, activities, and materials in high school English programs in Florida. Utilizing a stratified random sample, the study sampled 325 English teachers, at 45 of the 203…
Descriptors: Career Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
Schwartz, Stuart E. – 1977
One of five booklets designed to help vocational education teachers and administrators relate more effectively to handicapped students in their classrooms, this booklet suggests that the outcomes of handicapped pupils who are integrated or mainstreamed into the regular vocational education program differ only slightly from those of non-handicapped…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Development, Educational Legislation, Educational Strategies
Thomas, Olive W. – 1974
The Brevard District Plan for placement and follow-up is intended for all secondary students, including dropouts, disadvantaged, adult students, and graduates. The areas of placement may be in gainful employment, educational institutions, or a combination of both. The plan specifies procedures for implementing placement and stipulates the type of…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adult Students, Data Collection, Dropouts
