The purpose of this document (one in a series of six) is to provide a framework for organizing a community volunteer program to meet the instructional and home-school-community relations goals of an individually guided education school. The first steps in starting a volunteer program are to identify the instructional need for volunteer assistance,…

Three network studies in education are reviewed in order to assess the current "state of the art." New directions for developing social network analysis (SNA) in education, based upon experiences from a study of school-community relations in Pontiac, Michigan, are suggested. One concern for the future of SNA stems from the elevation of…

The use of advisory committees for the development, maintenance, and continued exchange of information for hospitality education programs is discussed. Two types of committees are the general advisory type, which can deal with entire programs on institutional and community levels, and the single-field type, which helps develop programs in specific…

IN AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO A WORKSHOP IN THE GREAT CITIES PROJECT, IT WAS NOTED THAT SCHOOL PERSONNEL SHOULD DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO RESEARCH THE PROBLEM OF IN-MIGRATION. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT, AS A KEY TO MIGRATION AND CHANGING NEIGHBORHOODS, A CUMULATIVE RECORD FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SCHOOL DISTRICT BE KEPT. THERE IS A NEED FOR TEACHERS TO…

BECAUSE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY ARE SO ESSENTIAL TO FULL PUPIL DEVELOPMENT, IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE TEACHER HAVE ADEQUATE PRESERVICE TRAINING IN HUMAN RELATIONS. IT WAS FOUND FROM A SURVEY OF NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES THAT PROFESSORS GENERALLY DID NOT GIVE STRONG EMPHASIS TO HUMAN RELATIONS IN THEIR…

The final document in a series on career education for exceptional students is designed to help educators locate and make use of resources available in the community. Authors include specific strategies, sample letters, and lists of common community resources. A question-answer format is used to address such topics as ways in which community…

Reading teachers and the field of reading have received much criticism because the public believes that children are not being taught to read. Some suggestions for letting the public know what children are learning include: using word of mouth; having frequent school visitations; using PTA meetings to advantage; seeking volunteers; inviting press…

In this age of declining enrollments, alternatives exist to boarding up schools that are no longer being fully utilized. This paper discusses such alternatives by describing the situation in a Minnesota school district. Of the four elementary school buildings closed in St. Louis Park in the past five years, one was sold to a developer, two are…

At a 1967 institute hosted by the Department of Public Instruction in Iowa, the following three papers were presented: (1) "The School as a Social Institution and Setting for Practice"; (2) "Factors which Affect a Model for School Social Work Practice"; and (3) "The Social Worker as a Link between School, Home, and Community." Appended are the…

This guide is for use by advisers conducting workshops for high school students participating as volunteers in the School and Community Service Program. It contains the following five units: (a) voluntarism, (b) the tutor, (c) the recreation aide, (d) the volunteer with the elderly, and (e) the volunteer with the handicapped. Each unit contains a…

The primary purpose of an advisory council is to assist and advise the teacher and administration in planning, organizing, and conducting an instructional program in agricultural education that will effectively meet the needs of the people in the community. Advisory councils are classified as general (serves all of vocational education or a…

Because vocational education programs must be an integral part of the community in which they exist, it is necessary to have close cooperation between the school and those in the work force. One of the most effective ways of providing cooperation is through the vocational education advisory committee. At present, there are about 20,000 such…

This document can serve as a model for other junior colleges applying for accreditation. The application includes detailed description of the operation of the college and of its relationship with the community. (MS)

The policy of the Framingham School System with respect to drug use and abuse is to establish a climate within its schools that is conducive to the understanding and respect for the proper use of drugs and an attitude toward nonabuse of drugs. To achieve this climate, some basic measures described in this report were taken. One measure was to set…