This case study provides an overview as to how two faculty members co-taught an asynchronous online course with a service-learning component during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Within this paper, the authors recount the adjustments that were made in order to accommodate an online teaching modality while maintaining their commitment to service…

A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development. The community school strategy is central to efforts…

The basic objective of this project was to take all the basic data relevant to individual community resources and put it into a meaningful form, and to provide it to the individual teacher upon request. Over 400 firms and individuals are listed and active in the file. There are 24 major classifications each with 100 possible minor classifications.…

This updated resource manual of racial diversity programs and activities should help promote racial reconciliation and understanding among diverse communities. It includes 72 new programs, and six new Indiana communities actually embracing this challenge have been included: Crawfordsville, New Castle, Plainfield, Seymour, Valparaiso, and Wawasee.…

Reports on one effort to help teachers utilize their local community resources in the educational programs of the local schools. From a list of over 400 participating business and industrial firms and individuals, teachers receive only those names for which they have immediate curricular need. (Author/WM)

The purpose of this guide is to help educators consider the community as an integral part of the total educational program. The document is divided into two major parts. Part one contains a guide for the use of community resources. These uses are categorized into the following five areas: (1) developing resource linkages; (2) the school as a…

This report summarizes the activities of "Indiana and the New Nation," a 2-year educational program for 30 Indiana teachers. The program sought to enrich participant knowledge and understanding of U.S. history; to find the means of using local historical resources to explore major themes in U.S. and European history; to find ways of…

The services and functions of state and national organizations and agencies that could serve as heritage resources are summarized in this handbook. Both national and statewide public/government and private organizations are included. The handbook, originally developed for the use of Indiana's county historians, also lists Indiana county heritage…

A K-12 career education project involving thirty-eight school corporations in Southwestern Indiana had several objectives, including developing a concept of career education, developing career education materials, developing a career education model for rural settings, and increasing the utilization of existing school and community resources. The…

This study assesses the effectiveness of a book which designates places of interest in Michigan and Indiana. Developed by students at the University of Indiana, the book increases the local cultural awareness of both adults and children in the two state area. A questionnaire was sent to 336 families to determine the number of families who had used…

To integrate educational efforts with the objectives of career education, 25 schools from the New Albany-Floyd County (Indiana) School Corporation initiated a program to introduce career education in all the grade levels (1-12). Specific objectives and goals for the career center, students, staff, and community are stated. The major phases and…

The Muncie, Indiana Academy for Community Leadership (founded in February 1976) seeks to inform, instruct, and involve promising young leaders in the study of the anatomy of a community and its component parts in order to meet the demand for informed, motivated leaders to serve as members of various community committees, task forces, and boards.…

Developed as part of an ethnic heritage studies program, the guide lists community cultural and ethnic resources in South Bend, Indiana. Resources include individuals willing to talk about their cultural heritage, ethnic organizations, churches, radio programs, holidays, and restaurants. The guide also includes annotated bibliographies relating to…

This collection of articles and bibliographies provides a comprehensive guide to autism. Section 1 presents general information on autism such as characteristics, myths and facts about autism, factors associated with autism, and diagnostic criteria for autism and Asperger's disorder. Section 2, on the family, addresses such aspects as the…