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Hunzicker, Jana; Olson, Peter; Wolffe, Robert; Dillon, Noreen; Sattler, Joan L. – School-University Partnerships, 2015
The Bradley PDS Partnership, about which we report in this article, was established in 1995 to promote academic and professional development for P-12 students, pre-professionals, practitioners, and professors. For twenty years, the partnership has been generously funded by the William T. Kemper Foundation-Commerce Bank, Trustee. In a grant…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Partnerships in Education, Strategic Planning, Alignment (Education)
Austin, Kimberly; Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Puckett, Cassidy; Singleton, Judi – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2010
With the rise in the number of types of digital media and the time youth spend on these platforms, researchers theorize that interacting with digital media can provide significant motivation for youth to participate, create, and become active learners. The Consortium on Chicago School Research, with funding from the John D. and Catherine T.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Adolescents, Public Libraries, Learning Motivation
McKee, Nancy; Bartnick, Diana – 1979
The booklet discusses the concepts of sharing centers and sharing center kits in the Macomb (Illinois) 0-3 Regional Project, a rural home based program to serve rural handicapped and high risk infants and toddlers. It is explained that sharing centers provide opportunities for parents to share experiences and learn new approaches to working with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children, Home Programs, Infants
Hunsberger, Phil – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1977
Describes Project READY (Realistic Education for Available Directions of Youth) in addressing the question of how an elementary teacher can endorse career education activities which appear to be on an adult level; focus is on the use of teacher developed instructional units and resolving the fears of the teachers relating to career education in…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Career Education, Educational Development, Elementary Education
Hutinger, Patricia L.; And Others – 1977
The first of 16 documents on the Macomb (Illinois) 0-3 Regional Project describes the development and operation of a home based rural child-parent service for families of handicapped and high risk children. The child development specialist organizes sharing centers where parents come together to learn about new Piagetian-based play activities and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children, Home Programs, Infants
US Environmental Protection Agency, 2007
In the more than 10 years since the inception of EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) Brownfields Program, brownfields have been redefined. Properties that were shunned or eyed warily by those with the resources to transform them are now viewed as dormant opportunities for economic and environmental rebirth. Communities that suffered aesthetic…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Student Attitudes, Land Use, Hazardous Materials
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education. – 1992
This report contains 51 one-page abstracts of innovative Illinois tech prep programs that integrate academic and vocational education. Each abstract includes the following: curriculum areas, grade level, types of students for whom the program is appropriate, materials needed, suggested resources, a contact person with address and telephone number,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Exploration, Community Development