For use by administrators, teachers, counselors, students, and employers involved in a secondary level experience-based career education (EBCE) program, this packet contains six booklets of guidelines, curriculum objectives and activities, and forms. Three of the booklets deal with administrative matters: (1) Planning, Implementing, and Managing…

This guide is intended to help administrators at schools having vocational education programs assess their occupational safety and health needs and establish a program to ensure a safer and more healthful work environment. It consists of three sections: (1) administrative guidelines, (2) technical-regulatory guidelines, and (3) a self-evaluation…

The document focuses on the workings of PAR (Program Administrative Review), a method by which local education agencies (LEAs) and state operated programs (SOPs) in Utah can conduct ongoing self-evaluation and identify areas where additional efforts are needed to improve the quality of programs and services for handicapped children. It is…

This is a two-component evaluation model designed to improve occupational education programs and improve the process through which they are evaluated. The conceptual component presents a theoretical overview of the evaluation scheme, explains how the procedures of evaluation fit into the planning process, and outlines a framework for implementing…

The School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an overall design for districtwide program assessment and development. It is both a way of interrelating planning and evaluation of individual programs and a way of comparing the outcomes of all district programs with the district's community-defined educational goals. Component…

This report presents required state and federal information and administrative and procedural information related to Kansas school food service programs. These programs include the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child Care Food Program, the Special Milk Program, and the Nutrition Education Program, and training…

Designed to help administrators involved with the deinstitutionalization of Arizona's severely and profoundly handicapped children, the manual details cooperative planning decisions and describes components of the educational program which are different from those previously delivered to less handicapped children. In the first section,…

The basic procedure in the evaluation of educational projects is described: clarification of project components and objectives; identification of information needs; assignment of priority rankings to objectives; allocation of resources, including personnel, money, and time; identification of data to be collected; construction of the evaluation…

Logistics, a support mission, is vital to the successful operation of the Colorado Outward Bound School (COBS) courses. Logistics is responsible for purchasing, maintaining, transporting, and replenishing a wide variety of items, i.e., food, mountaineering and camping equipment, medical and other supplies, and vehicles. The Logistics coordinator…

The concordance is designed to serve as a reference for administrators, supervisors, and others responsible for the implementation of P.L. 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Specific references to the law along with compliance policy and procedure guidelines are presented in table format for the following major divisions of the…

Designed for coordinators of student volunteer programs (experiential learning through community service), this manual provides information on some of the basic research approaches and tools which can be used to analyze a program's activities and effectiveness. The major areas discussed include the following: the reasons for and resources…

This handbook is designed to aid school districts that are considering either implementing a year-round program for the first time or improving and expanding an existing year-round program. The handbook is organized in 11 chapters that discuss the following topics: introduction to the year-round school, reorganizing the school calendar, adopting…

This book discusses each of the specific phases of a school building program from recognition of the need to build through the occupancy and maintenance of the building. The presentations offer practical examples in the areas of preplanning, development of educational and architectural specifications, selling and financing school buildings,…

This paper examines the phenomenon of declining school enrollments from the viewpoint of the school district superintendent and discusses what steps the superintendent should take to cope with the problem. The author devotes much of his attention to the process of closing schools; he outlines specific strategies the board of education and…

The course guide has been designed as the basic planning document for the program director and instructional personnel in the organization and administration of a Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) Law Enforcement Training Course. It contains an explanation of the developmental effort of the DWI Law Enforcement Training Project and detailed…