The Applied Communication curriculum addresses skills students will need as adults and offers the best means for imparting them. Students acquire relevant skills and enhanced self-esteem; teachers take on an exciting new role as facilitator or coach. (Author/JOW)

Effective, "schoolwide" inclusion ensures the best outcomes for all students--but how can school teams knock down the barriers to inclusion and make sure it's happening across all classrooms? This concise book gives principals and other school leaders the solution they've been waiting for: a clear framework for leading inclusion efforts,…

This study aims to investigate how school-based curriculum development (SBCD) was interpreted and implemented in a Chinese context like Hong Kong whose educational system is highly centralized and bureaucratic. Altogether 118 teachers and 34 principals reported their beliefs and practice in SBCD, and four principals were interviewed in individual…

Classrooms across the country are discovering the power of service-learning--the ideal way to help students develop social and academic skills while giving back to their community. Now for the first time, there's a practical how-to guide on using serving-learning to promote inclusion and differentiate instruction for students with and without…

Consists of two articles that (1) suggest use of the Delphi method for eliciting the recommendations of experts on the content of a meaningful and timely course of study for education and training programs and (2) discuss the importance of linking training evaluation to the processes of design and implementation. (JOW)

Discusses the policy, objectives, and possible teaching procedures that a local teachers' association developed in response to a directive to include writing in all subject areas and at all grade levels. (RL)

Describes a curriculum-based approach to humane education and addresses the role of humane education in the school curriculum as well as the relationship's of education to other facets of animal welfare work. (Author/DS)

Describes British Columbia's government-mandated Career and Personal Planning (CAPP) curriculum in its major implementation stage at two schools during the 1996-97 school year. Suggests that the differing approaches to implementing the CAPP curriculum at the two schools demonstrates how schools can use existing approaches and value systems to…

Describes the Learning and Integrating New Knowledge and Skills (LINKS) project that was designed to integrate established and emerging technologies into the teacher preparation curriculum at Texas Woman's University. Discusses research conducted to evaluate the efficacy of project implementation within the preservice teacher population.…

The paperwork involved in starting and operating a business can be overwhelming. Incorporating this component into the secondary business curriculum provides students with essential information and a sound base for future entrepreneurs. (JOW)

Implementation of the curriculum-centered, standards-based federally mandated reform, No Child Left Behind, has placed pressure on teachers, particularly those working in schools comprised of highly diverse and impoverished students, to have their students attain predetermined levels on high stakes, standardized tests. When schools have not met…

This annual report provides a national perspective on Title II-D for federal fiscal year (FY) 2008 (2008-09 school year), as well as emergent trends based on data from the past seven years. Title II-D is the only federal education program with funds explicitly targeted to support state and local effective uses of educational technology in the …

This article reports a 2-year case study (2003-2005) on teachers' instructional practices, and the impact of teacher understandings and training upon the teachers' implementation of the Communicative Oriented Curriculum (COC) initiative in the context of a major curriculum innovation in teaching English to young learners in Turkish state schools.…

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health instituted a project in 1980 to encourage engineering educators to focus on occupational safety and health issues in engineering curricula. Progress to date is outlined, considering specific results in curriculum development, engineering society interaction, and formation of a teaching…

Presented is an annotated list of 19 references which focus on issues and concerns related to the implementation of computers in education. The information provided is intended both for classroom teachers and for researchers. (JN)