In early childhood settings, children spend over 50 percent of their time on handwashing, dressing, napping, and other routines and transitions. "Routines and Transitions" is a guide to help turn these routine daily activities into learning experiences. By using transitions wisely, providers not only help children develop skills, but also run a…

Children with disabilities enter school with unique educational needs. Federal and State laws provide special assurances that guarantee these unique needs are met and an appropriate education is provided. Among these assurances are rights making it possible for parents to act as advocates for their children and to work as partners with the school…

This publication is part of a series of tools and resources on financing and sustaining youth programming. These tools and resources are intended to help policymakers, program developers, and community leaders develop innovative strategies for implementing, financing, and sustaining effective programs and policies. This guide provides practical…

This handbook will assist principals and school testing coordinators in implementing the spring 2007 administration of the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA). Information regarding administration timeline, reporting, process, online tools and contact personnel is discussed. Contents include: (1) Scheduling; (2) Identify Primary Test…

This report extends previous Center explorations of the status of organized efforts to provide student supports. In 2005 we did a policy and practice analysis of school improvement planning guides to determine how student supports were formally integrated into school improvement planning. We followed this, in 2006, with analyses of a sample of…

This booklet is designed to offer state and district policymakers a thoughtful set of questions to ask about school reform models and the organizations that develop them. The questions follow the criteria for schoolwide reform as spelled out in the federal legislation. Policymakers are encouraged to consider these questions as they work with…

This document is an instructional guide for use by local Boys Clubs of America in promoting delinquency prevention and in designing programs to address the problem of the inappropriate detention of juveniles. The problem of inappropriate youth detention and the need for Boys Clubs to provide alternatives to detention are discussed in the…

This program guide is designed to provide the educational community with the recommended plan for industrial arts (IA) in Pennsylvania. It outlines the program that is consistent with the mandates and recommendations of the 1984 Chapter 5-Curriculum Regulations of the State Board of Education and has been developed using current national IA…

This article describes a life-skills program, in a community college, with its major objective to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining employment opportunities. There is a need for faculty to respond to the culturally different and for new teaching consistent with learning styles of the alienated. Specific program guide-lines are presented.…

The American Bar Association recommends and briefly analyzes law related curriculum projects for those seeking information and assistance in setting up a program in their school. (DE)

In this article author introduced a structure of applied reading skills and suggested instructional strategies for development of initial strategies appropriate for learners in middle and upper levels of the elementary school. (Author/RK)

A justification for the offering of intramural sports is offered, and an introduction to methods for establishing such programs at the elementary, junior secondary, and senior secondary school levels is presented. General information on intramural programing at each level includes discussion of questions on commitment, financing, liability,…

This guide is designed to provide new Girl Scout troop leaders with basic information about scouting and about their responsibilities as leaders. Developed by the Girl Scouts Migrant Communities Project, the guide is written in Spanish and English, with every heading, caption, and discussion presented in both languages. Among the topics covered…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS MANUAL IS TO PROVIDE A GUIDE FOR ORGANIZING AND OPERATING A 2-YEAR POST-HIGH SCHOOL DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS SEEKING A CAREER IN THE FIELD OF WHOLESALING. THE INFORMATION IS BASED ON ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF SUCH A PROGRAM CONDUCTED ON AN EXPERIMENTAL BASIS ON THE CAMPUS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOR 3 YEARS,…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE IS TO ASSIST STATE LEADERS AND TEACHERS IN PLANNING AND CONDUCTING FARM MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS WITH EMPHASIS ON FARM BUSINESS ANALYSIS. DEVELOPED BY NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION SPECIALISTS, THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS FARM BUSINESS ANALYSIS PROGRAM INCLUDE--(1) EFFICIENT USE OF FARM RECORDS, (2) USE OF GOOD MANAGEMENT AS A…