This handbook uses a Title IX Ethnic Heritage Studies Project conducted in Illinois as a model for suggesting methods and approaches that might be used by school personnel in introducing multicultural studies to a school community setting. Specific strategies are outlined and described for the following areas: (1) funding; (2) staff training; (3) recruitment activities; (4) action planning; (5) implementation; and (6) evaluation. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental importance of the process involved in developing and implementing a school community program in multicultural education. (EB)