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Using an Innovative Developmental Evaluation Framework to Promote the Use of Evidence-Based Practices and Programs in Violence Prevention: The Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Todd I. Herrenkohl; Sarah Walker; Mariko Lockhart; Gerard Sidorowicz; Anne McGlynn-Wright; Asia Sarah Bishop – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case describes an ongoing effort to develop and implement an innovative developmental evaluation framework to support a community-based youth violence prevention system in Seattle, Washington, called the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative. This initiative began in 2009 in response to several gang-related homicides, and now serves…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Community Involvement, Violence, Crime Prevention
Building Bridges to the Law: How to Make Lawyers, Judges, Police, and Other Members of the Community a Part of Your Law-Related Education Program.
White, Charles, Ed. – 1981
This book will help elementary and secondary teachers make community involvement part of their legal education program. The authors believe that the active involvement of lawyers, police and probation officers, judges, and others from the community is an excellent way of making legal education real to students. There are five major sections to the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Legal Education
An Administrator's Guide for Evaluating Programs and Personnel: An Effective Schools Approach. Second Edition.
DeRoche, Edward F. – 1987
Determining the effectiveness of a school's programs and personnel, responding to the public's pleas for quality education, finding ways to enhance teaching and learning, and helping parents and the community to cope with the problems of raising children are all major tasks faced by principals. Ten issues of evaluation are considered in these…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Guides, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Innovations in Parent and Family Involvement.
Rioux, J. William; Berla, Nancy – 1993
Designed to help parents and teachers think beyond the ordinary ways in which parent-family involvement in education is considered and approached, this book describes 34 operational parent-family involvement programs in preschools and in elementary, middle, and high schools. It also describes programs run by school districts and communities. Among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Child Development, Educational Improvement
Creating Community-Responsive Physicians: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Medical Education. AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines.
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Seifer, Sarena D., Ed.; Hermanns, Kris, Ed.; Lewis, Judy, Ed. – 2000
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. Essays in this volume focus on understanding how service-learning in medical education differs from traditional clinical medical education. After an Introduction by Sarena D. Seifer, Kris Hermanns, and Judy Lewis, essays in Part 1, "The Broader…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), College Students, Community Services, Graduate Study
Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy. Advances in Service-Learning Research.
Furco, Andrew, Ed.; Billig, Shelley H., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on advances in service-learning research. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Andrew Furco, Shelley H. Billig); "Community Service and Service-Learning in America: The State of the Art" (Ivor Pritchard); "Is Service-Learning Really Better Than Community Service? A Study of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Citizenship Education, Community Services, Context Effect