The Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, under the US Office of Education and later the National Institute of Education, designed and carried out a five year plan intended to modify its programs in ways that would enable its largely Mexican American students and community to profit more from the education offered. An…

This is an evaluation of a Title VII bilingual program that was conducted at Louis D. Brandeis High School in New York City in 1979-1980 to serve Spanish speaking students. The evaluation provides a demographic analysis of the schools's environment, information on student characteristics, and a program description. Instructional components of the…

This document, one of four staff training units in a series designed to attack problems of sex bias in the counseling of women and girls, is intended to help counselor educators consider their knowledge of and attitudes toward the sex-limited status of women. In this unit, two staff training workshop strategies are provided. The first workshop is…

This paper examines the implications of research on effective schools for professional development at the State and local levels. The first part of the paper gives an overview of the research and a description of the characteristics of instructionally effective urban elementary schools. The paper then explores how these characteristics can be…

The manual describes Project ASCENT, a North Carolina project to provide support services to help early childhood teachers provide a differentiated curriculum for identified gifted children in the regular class. The chapter on program implementation considers such aspects as project goals, staff, funding, schools involved, the duties of the…

A California University systemwide approach to professional development encompassing the three facets of personal development, instructional development, and environmental modification is summarized. Objectives of professional development and objectives of successful campus programs are presented and aspects of the Center for Professional…

This document describes a program designed to strengthen the educational opportunities of juvenile delinquents and/or youth offenders in the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and the Dallas County Juvenile Department Detention Center. The project's goals, expected outcomes and activities are outlined. Major project components outlined…

This learning module on supervising vocational education personnel is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It focuses upon the relationships among student learning, teacher performance, teacher motivation, and the effects of the supervisor's behavior on…

A description is provided of the Field-Based Curriculum Leadership Training Program at Pittsburgh State University. The purpose of the program is to help establish a new type of working relationship between the university and local schools in the area of curriculum development. Three program phases are outlined. The first consists of a series of…

Twelve essays examine issues related to community college involvement in international education. Hugh Adams explores the role of community colleges in international education. S. V. Martorana and William Shannon present a framework for program planning. Sydney Grant examines strategies for internationalizing the curriculum. Seymour Fersh…

The National Center for Career Education (NCCE) received a U.S. Office of Education grant to operate the Career Education Information, Training, and Instructional Materials Systems (CEITAIMS). CEITAIMS' 1976-77 proposal objective was to assist career education practitioners nationwide by facilitating the flow of career education materials and…

The ideas of Randall J. Ryder (see related document) regarding secondary content area reading programs may be supplemented with other suggestions about teacher training and staff development. Among the suggestions are the following: content area teachers should be helped to use reading materials near students' reading levels. The certification…

Narrative descriptions of activities in 10 areas of Project FAITH (Family Assistance for Infants and Toddlers with Handicaps) and results of the 1977-1978 project year evaluation are presented. Cost figures, strategy activities, significant findings, recommendations, personnel responsible, product development information, and continuation plans…

The Child and Family Neighborhood Program, located in a suburb of Detroit, is an early childhood intervention project aimed at strengthening informal and formal family suoport systems and increasing parents' knowledge of child development. The program works with clusters of 10 parents and their young children (0-3 years) twice weekly in a…

This workshop package is designed to assist those persons responsible for the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in elementary and secondary school settings. The objectives of this second workshop session include helping participants to: (1) review requirements of the regulation to implement Title IX; (2) assess their…