Recognizing the need for improved, more flexible, more reality-based training for pupil personnel workers, the Division of Foundations and Human Behavior, Indiana University, in conjunction with the Department of Counseling and Guidance, formed a relationship with the Indianapolis Public Schools in order to seek out methods of improving PPS…

The primary goal of the School-Community-Pupil (SCP) Project at the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Urbana was to train a new kind of professional school social worker who would work to improve the way school systems respond to children, particularly minority children. The SCP Project was based on the hope that…

The Chicago Satellite, as a member of the EPDA Midwest Center Consortium, sought to create the EPDA's "New Professional" by retraining in-service teachers and school staff.The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle's College of Education and the Department of Educational Psychology at the Urbana campus are working in conjunction with…

This document is a collection of six abstracts representing a summary of the activities of a three-year project supported by the Education Professions Development Act. Addresses are included for copies of specific full reports. Satellite projects were implemented, based in Chicago, Indiana, Louisville (Ky.), Ohio, Urbana (Ill.), and the Midwest…

As part of the Midwest Center/Consortium for Planned Change, the University of Louisville School of Education and the Louisville Public Schools designed a program for the training of a "new professional" to help alleviate problems of inner-city students. Main goals of the program were: (1) to improve the competence of pupil personnel…

As one component of the Midwest Center/Consortium for Planned Change, the Ohio Satellite aimed at making public schools aware of the need for the structuring of a fully-functioning guidance program, with teaming as a viable change and problem-solving process. A third goal was the recruitment of minority group members as "new…

The major portion of this yearbook is devoted to proceedings of the 1968 annual meeting. There are panel presentations with discussion on five topics: the preparation and development of teacher educators, staff differentiation and the preparation of educational personnel, education professions development for urban and depressed areas, development…