This book considers every phase of the mentoring process, offering basic principles and concrete practices to establish and nourish an effective mentoring program for religious educators. The book contains a comprehensive overview of the mentoring literature from adult, religious, and general education. It explains the historical background for…

This presentation describes the development process behind the Boston Schoolyard Initiative: a 5-year, inner city, community-driven initiative to transform neglected and unwelcome schoolyards into active centers of school and community use. Each phase of the initiative is discussed from community organizing through design, construction, and…

In response to a Congressional request, the General Accounting Office studied the process that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses to select projects for the homeless for funding, whether this process is consistent with statutes and community priorities, whether communities face any common problems when applying for HUD…

This document is intended to be a guide for administrators and other school personnel to develop an effective violence prevention program in their school communities. Violence is about norms, not only the attitudes and behaviors of individuals, but also the perceptions individuals have of the attitudes and behaviors of others. Because the norm…

This handbook has been developed to offer guidelines and suggestions to volunteers in mentoring programs to help them strengthen the mentoring relationship. The program for which the handbook was designed, the Mentor/Tutor Network in Madison, Wisconsin, has evolved into a comprehensive support system for schools to collaborate with community…

This guidebook explores some of the practical issues associated with finding, choosing, and starting potentially effective prevention programs for at-risk preteens and teens. The guidebook is based on a study of 51 intervention programs that identified elements and delivery mechanisms that were associated with their effectiveness. A closer look at…

According to a recent estimate, out of more than four million children between 4 and 6 years of age, less than half a million are enrolled in kindergartens. This condition may be attributed in general to a lack of knowledge of the practical, ethical, and social value of kindergarten education; to the expense of installing a system whose advantages…

Research activities undertaken in the past year have focused in the following three areas: a) evaluation of graduates from the program; b) program development in public schools; c) teacher competency scale development. This article briefly describes them. (Author/JA)

Article considered three areas of attitudes that seemed important in the relationship they have for concepts of rehabilitation. (Author/RK)

Examined community service programs to see if they continued to serve overall community needs in the Foothill Community College District (California). (Author/RK)

Presented programs, workshops and seminars on creative problem-solving given by different educational institutions in 1974-75. (RK)

This article describes a consultant-to-counselor concept in which a consultant serves as a resource person and aid to school counselors and guidance program directors. (RWP)

The systems approach is described, and a generalized model for planning and maintaining a career education delivery system in any setting is presented. (Author)

Four public perspectives are identified and evaluated, and three prerequisite conditions are recommended for implementation of a comprehensive career education program. (Author)

This study describes a process for establishing teacher criteria which includes articulating individual subjective goal orientations, interacting with others similarily involved, locating priorities among the goals, collating agreements on general goal statements, and operationalizing these through numerous specific, descriptive characteristics.…