In April 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) hosted a Forum, Emphasizing Evidence-Based Programs for Children and Youth, to convene the nation's leading practitioners and researchers with experience using and evaluating an array of evidence-based…

Five phases for establishing and improving Pre-K-12 comprehensive guidance and counseling programs serve as the organizational framework for this enduring, influential textbook written for counselor educators and their students, school leaders, practicing school counselors, and state or district supervisors. The fifth edition of this bestseller…

To reform a special education teacher preparation program can be gratifying, difficult, complex, political, and urgently needed. The Monarch Center, a federally funded technical assistance center, was established to guide and support minority-serving institutions in their efforts to improve their teacher preparation programs. Four guidelines…

A school or district's technology education program consists of a series of courses that address standards. Recent trends (e.g., No Child Left Behind), administrative pressures to increase student achievement, or the school's desire to align with standards, challenge the technology education teacher to implement new courses into the technology…

Article shares ideas learned from the challenges of implementing a program evaluation infrastructure for a comprehensive developmental, guidance, and counseling program (CDGC). The benefits of continuous program evaluation for staff and students were evident in this urban school district. Developing support for sustainable program evaluation…

This monograph is designed to assist individual schools to plan for, organize, implement, and manage their own elementary school guidance programs. Those school districts supporting a centralized team planning approach to program development will also find the monograph useful, but may wish to adapt some of the suggestions to fit their own…

Reports on a 6-year study and project in Ohio that visited schools to evaluate their guidance programs, implemented revitalization ideas into 10 programs, and evaluated and disseminated the results. Presents eight essential actions for revitalizing guidance programs. (SR)

This monograph speaks to the basic problems confronting human services programs, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services. Specific concerns addressed are: (1) the need for more systematic program planning and evaluation; (2) an approach to effective planning and evaluation; (3) development of staff skills for use in the…

A statewide study was conducted to assess the extent of services offered by Education Information Centers (EICs) in Ohio. The following four objectives guided the project activities: (1) to catalog, describe and analyze current statewide resources and services for providing educational information, guidance, counseling and referral services to all…

A statewide study was conducted to assess the extent of services offered by Education Information Centers (EICs) in Ohio. The following four objectives guided the project activities: (1) to catalog, describe and analyze current statewide resources and services for providing educational information, guidance, counseling and referral services to all…

A project was conducted to strengthen the existing occupational guidance program in the St. Bernard Parish middle and high schools in Chalmette, Louisiana. Eight externship counselors were placed into a rotating externship with key businesses, industries, and trades within the surrounding communities so that a closer partnership could be…

This report is one in a series on the work of the 30 pilot projects that form the European Community's second Programme on the Transition from Education to Adult and Working Life. The report reviews new demands on guidance and new approaches that have been developed to meet them, reviews the responses made by the Transition Programme pilot…

Designed for use by counselors, guidance directors, school administrators, school board members, and anyone interested in the improvement of school guidance programs, this resource book provides a collection of over 100 guidance program models and individual guidance practices. The format consists of references (bibliographic information with…

A third-party evaluation was conducted to assess the accomplishments of a project designed to improve the quality and demonstrate the most effective methods/techniques of career education in four New Hampshire high schools. Accomplishments were assessed in the following areas: development of a staging model; curriculum infusion; school-community…

The purpose of this project was to improve the quality and demonstrate the most effective methods and techniques of career education in four high schools in the state of New Hampshire. The focus was to effect change at two points: the first was the academic curriculum, where committees in each of the project schools reviewed their existing…