This final evaluation report examines the activities of the P.S. 243 Follow Through Resource Center in Brooklyn, New York during the 1980-81 school year which was established to disseminate and demonstrate the Bank Street Follow Through model. The report includes an evaluation of training and implementation of the Bank Street model at two adopting…

This manual contains materials prepared for the Career Counseling Task Forces Workshops, a set of five workshops conducted throughout California to enable educators from high schools and community colleges to coalesce into career guidance task forces for their schools and to learn about current career guidance concepts and practices. The articles,…

The Technical Assistance Base (TAB) of the National Diffusion Network (NDN) maintains a central agency and five regional service units across the United States. This report encompasses the project's activities in the first six months of its second year within NDN. At the time, TAB staff had just completed a transition from serving as brokers of…

The proceedings of a workshop for parents and educators of handicapped children focuses on least restrictive environment. Three papers introduce the workshop: "Special Education: The Development of Services" (M. Reynolds); "Least Restrictive Environment: Decision Making" (H. Sobehart); and "Communication and Conferencing Skills for Parents" (J.…

This document, one of four staff training units in a series designed to attack problems of sex bias in the counseling of women and girls, is intended to help counselors and counselor educators consider their knowledge of and attitudes toward the sex-limited status of women. In this unit, a staff training workshop strategy is presented to increase…

This document, one of four staff training units in a series designed to attack problems of sex bias in the counseling of women and girls, is intended to help counselors and counselor educators consider their knowledge of and attitudes toward the sex-limited status of women. In this unit, a staff training workshop strategy is presented to increase…

From October, 1977, through December, 1979, 13 one-day continuing education workshops were given by the University of Missouri Extension for nurses and other health-care professionals. A total of 520 different health care professionals attended the sessions, with multiple registrations bringing the total enrollment in the program to 925. Programs…

Sixteen randomly chosen public high schools in Oregon were studied to determine the attitudes of teachers, counselors, and principals toward the issue of sex equity. Within these schools, 701 teachers, 57 counselors, and 16 principals were interviewed. From these interviews, a number of conclusions were drawn, including the following. (1)…

The purpose of the teacher workshop described in this report was to disseminate information to junior and senior high school social studies classroom teachers and administrators regarding innovative educational materials and teaching methods available in social science disciplines. Forty-seven social studies teachers and administrators from New…

The facilitator's manual offers information for conducting a workshop to teach regular educators, special educators, and parents of handicapped children communication skills as they relate to decisions in the individualized education program (IEP) team meeting. Three presentations provide participants with an increased awareness of the need for…

The facilitator's manual offers information for conducting a workshop to teach regular educators, special educators, and parents of handicapped children problem solving and decision making techniques as they relate to the individualized education program (IEP) team. Three presentations are designed to define and discuss the rationale and process…

This handbook reviews some of the forms that can be used to package educational projects for dissemination to other schools, such as written reports, slide tape presentations, news releases, conference presentations, and workshops. Guidelines and suggestions in the essays on each format are supplemented by the appendices, which include a report…

This report documents the second delivery of "Teaching the Young Handicapped Child: An Overview," an inservice course on mainstreaming for teachers of children from three to eight years of age, which was developed by the Appalachian Education Satellite Program (AESP) and Project PUSH (Parents Understanding Student Handicaps) in response to the…

A cooperative program to improve education in the public schools involving the combined resources of the state department of education, a state university, and the local school districts is described. This Professional Development Center Network (PDC) conducts research to produce decision-making information to upgrade inservice programs in the…

This report covers the activities of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) Regional Exchange (Rx) from October 1976 to November 1977, the first 14 months of the Rx existence. Four different activities are described and are briefly evaluated: (1) the Advisory Committee; (2) the subcontracts with eight state departments of education to improve…