Budget cuts in education demand that school counselors learn how to do more with what is presently available, and to collaborate with families and communities to find resources that meet student needs. In an effort to address how school counselors can be proactive in finding needed resources, this article draws on information from various…

In focus groups, parents of both academically successful seventh-grade students and at-risk students (i.e., failing one or more classes, numerous behavioral referrals, and/or suspensions) in a rural middle school identified perceived barriers to student success as well as school and community resources for overcoming those barriers. Qualitative…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the ninth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for teachers, this monograph discusses ways in which schools can involve the community in a career education program.…

Open access to facilities and equipment, both at the college and in community centers can help to broaden the base of education in the whole community. (RN)

Suggests activities for using community resources as instructional agents in the study of work and careers. Describes field trips, interviews, and work-study experiences with parents or relatives, school business personnel, and representatives from industry, sales, social services, and the media. (AV)

This fully annotated bibliography of over 1,000 documents and journal articles is compiled to assist educators, community organizations, and citizens interested in community education, whether in theory or in practice, by identifying relevant resources in the field. Citations originate in three abstracting systems: documents described in ERIC's…

The document serves as a step-by-step guide for career education administrators, consultants, and directors in preparing a program for the utilization of community resources in schools. Two methods of utilizing resources are the operation of a service which keeps a file of persons willing to serve as resources in the classroom, and the publication…

No matter what its size or location, every community has vast resources potentially useful for teaching and learning. However, these rich resources can become teaching tools only if they are located and analyzed and the resultant information is made accessible to teachers. This book indicates how these resources can be organized and made readily…

This module, Community Resources, is one of five from Project DECIDE, which was created to design, develop, write, and implement materials to provide adult basic education administrators, instructors, para-professionals, and other personnel with curriculum to accompany the Indiana Adult Basic Education Curriculum Guide, "Learning for Everyday…

An overview is presented of school programs that utilize the resources of the local community as an educational tool. Examples are presented of ways in which successful field trip programs have been organized and administered. Included in this report are citations of articles and documents available from the ERIC information system. (JD)

Migrant children should become acquainted with their communities, however briefly they live in them. They should learn what the community represents, the services that a community offers, and how their lives can be improved by making use of those services. Migrant students should have the opportunity for involvement in extracurricular activities…

This book is concerned with the potential of the city as a place for learning. Discovery of the city is facilitated by a catalogue of 70 alphabetically arranged categories made up of (1) people (28 entries, ranging from butcher to psychologist); (2) places (29 entries, from city Hall to zoo); and (3) processes (13) entries from candymaking to…

Information is given on accessing community and school-based services at the local and county level for visually impaired students. Groups are identified that can provide services in the areas of education, employment, family support and advocacy, recreation, social/interpersonal development, medical needs, and financial needs. Contains 21…

To aid schools planning career education programs, a study (1) identified resources which organizations might be willing to share with schools and (2) attempted to match available resources to easily observable characteristics of employment organizations. Produced through use of the Delphi technique, two lists of variables (organizational…