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Shotts, Cynthia – 1993
This handbook offers a set of practical ideas and their philosophical underpinnings, designed to assist community groups which desire to form interagency coordinating councils. A Local Interagency Coordinating Council (LICC) works to develop, coordinate, and provide a community-based, comprehensive system of services for young children with…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Special Education. – 1992
This manual presents Missouri state guidelines for its surrogate parent program, required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 94-142), and currently under development in Missouri. An introductory chapter reviews the program's current status, outlines the surrogate parent role, and notes special considerations for students…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Due Process
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 1997
This manual provides administrative guidelines for programs for gifted students in Missouri. An introduction cites the relevant state special education law, defines "giftedness," and stresses that differentiated educational programs are intended for only 2 or 3 percent of the school-aged population whose development requires…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Budgeting, Definitions, Educational Legislation
Smith, Clifton L. – 1989
This handbook is a complete guide for developing and administering cooperative vocational education programs in Missouri. The 11 sections of the handbook provide information in the following areas: (1) overview of the cooperative education program; (2) role of the teacher-coordinator; (3) program development; (4) the instructional program; (5)…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
Phillips, Richard; And Others – 1986
Directed primarily toward small school administrators and school boards, this publication describes a consortium of five rural school districts in central Missouri and how they used a traveling teacher to facilitate incorporation of microcomputer capabilities into the school systems' operation and curriculum. The paper describes the use of the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Computer Literacy, Consortia, Educational Technology
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 1997
These guidelines help professional development chairs, administrators, and teachers collaboratively plan for the ongoing skill development and content acquisition of staff members. Section 1, "Missions, Mandates, and Regulations for Professional Development," describes the mission of professional development as supporting teachers in…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Budgeting, Costs, Educational Finance
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 1993
The Missouri Excellence in Education Act of 1985 established the Missouri Career Development and Teacher Excellence Plan, also known as the Career Ladder Program. The intent of the program was to develop and implement a process to encourage quality teachers to remain in the classroom and to continue the emphasis on improved instruction. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Career Ladders, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers
West, Lynda; And Others – 1986
This guide is intended to provide persons involved in the transition of handicapped youth from school to work with a systematic means of implementing transition and disseminating information about resources that may assist the process. The guide is organized in six sections. The first section provides an overview of transition, while the second…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Definitions, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Smith, Clifton L. – 1989
This handbook is a complete guide for developing and administering cooperative industrial education programs in Missouri. The 11 sections of the handbook provide information in the following areas: (1) overview of the cooperative industrial education program; (2) role of the teacher-coordinator; (3) program development; (4) the instructional…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
Levesque, Jeri; Hinton, Karen – 2001
This guide is designed to lead program planners through the course of building and implementing a family literacy program. It provides planning teams with an orientation to a four-component model of family literacy, community resources, planning strategies, examples of programs in Missouri, recent research findings, case study vignettes, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Check Lists, Community Programs
Ruhland, Sheila K.; Wilkinson, Richard F. – 1995
This handbook consists of guidelines and materials for use in the development, implementation, and administration of marketing and cooperative education programs in Missouri. The following topics are among those covered: nature and scope of Missouri's marketing education program; role of marketing education teachers; program development…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education