The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and…

The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and…

The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. This toolkit defines family and…

The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and…

Four environmental education booklets presented in this document comprise the fourth volume of the environmental series developed by community groups around the Tallahassee Junior Museum and its pioneer farm. The focus of the document is on ways to environmental education. Part one presents a mini-history of Tallahassee, its origin, inhabitants,…

Designed to give students and adults an opportunity to put their ideas on videotape, this component of the Special Arts Project has as specific goals stimulating student/adult creativity, learning how different people can work together to make a successful program, and making video available to the community as a form of documentation and…

This resource guide is the first of three volumes of environmental education ideas and activities compiled by participants at the Tallahassee Junior Museum for the benefit of other environmental educators. This volume contains ten booklets produced by various community groups to educate their membership or target groups about the environment. The…

The guide is part of a six-volume planning and resource program to involve the community in career education. Strategies, goals, resources, and rationale are suggested for directly involving employers in the definition and supply of educational experiences. Included in the guide is an implementation-based model for employer participation, composed…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. It attempts to identify the essential components of comprehensive career education program development. A careful examination is made of the major components of program development: curriculum, staff development, guidance…

Ten environmental education booklets presented in this document are the third volume of the environmental series developed by community groups around the Tallahassee Junior Museum and its Pioneer Farm. The first three booklets present an overview of the museum and of the various education programs and activities offered for students at the museum…

The fifteen lesson plans compiled in this document were developed for elementary teachers to help them assist students to prepare for their own aging and increase awareness of decision-making affecting that aging. Each of these plans includes a name (i.e., title), purpose, behavioral objectives, a list of materials (including some pages for…

Part of a 4-volume set constituting a model to assist all school districts in Region 17 (Texas) in infusing comprehensive career oriented education into their existing instructional programs by 1980, this teacher guide contains materials for the first part of a 3-phase program designed to move the participant through a series of informational…

Environmental education materials presented in this book are the ideas of community members interested in contributing to environmental awareness. Many of them are developed around the Tallahassee Junior Museum and its Pioneer Farm. They may also, however, provide ideas that can be adapted to other facilities or localities. The booklets in this…

This publication defines the role of career education in the social studies. Society has always been concerned that youth be adequately trained in the crafts and skills that will allow the society to maintain itself. Defined today, career education is an educational process, taking place both in and out of school, by which all persons at all…

This book presents ideas for developing day care programs to serve children (aged 5-10) before and after school hours as well as during vacation periods. The general program, including schedules, routines and daily activities, is described. The main body of the book presents ideas for learning and play activities in specific areas, including…