This combination workshop guide and course description is intended to equip persons belonging to nonprofit volunteer organizations with the skills required to develop an action plan for identifying community resources and mastering effective methods of obtaining support for volunteer programs. The training emphasizes that 80 percent of…

This training guide is designed to build the capacity of Head Start staff to make the program's renewed vision for parent involvement a reality for every parent and program. The guide contains three modules, each with two activities designed for workshop presentation, followed by two or more coaching activities. Module 1 defines parent involvement…

The handbook contains resource material useful in planning and conducting career education workshops for various groups of educational personnel. The first part, the Workshop Planning Guide, contains overall planning considerations and a section outlining a series of specific planning tasks. The second and largest part, the Workshop Materials, is…

This guide explains the phases of the career education program at Great Mills High School (Maryland) as a means of helping other schools and school systems to initiate similar programs. Based on 4 years of experience at Great Mills High School, the guide provides career education activities for the 9th through 12th grades. The activities include…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this fourth section (4.4) of module 4 (Planning) consists of a series of suggested readings and activities to aid the administrator and staff in developing a supportive…