This report summarizes the projects, recent studies, and studies in the planning stages for 1967-69 at the Henrietta Szold Institute. The Institute has been involved in coordinating research in the field of human behavior with special emphasis on children, advising the Israeli government, and stimulating activities in community development. Discussion of current projects and recently completed studies is organized by field. Reports of studies completed in the field of education occupy the major...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Community Relationship, Social Welfare, Vocational Education
This publication was developed to assist concerned citizens faced with the loss of their neighborhood schools. It recounts a brief history of school reform in Ohio, leading to the current crisis, and suggests strategies advocates for the preservation of their neighborhood schools can use to save their neighborhood assets. Broad issues addressed include understanding the process of school construction, understanding the perspective of the educator and community, organizing stakeholders,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, Neighborhood Schools, School Community Relationship, School Construction
This booklet discusses mentoring in general, describes a particular mentoring program, and describes mentoring efforts around the country. The first section about mentoring in general focuses on mentoring as an old idea and current trends in mentoring. The next section describes the Norwalk Mentor Program in Connecticut which began in 1986 as an outgrowth of a well-established adopt-a-school program. The six-step process used to begin and maintain this program and to evaluate the success of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Mentors, Program Design, School Community Relationship
This is a compendium of papers from this week-long session. The keynote paper, of the same name as the booklet title, was written by the Honorable Joseph M. Montoya, senator from New Mexico. Other topics discussed are multicultural education, the need for individual involvement in school-community relations, campus change, a forum on the National Institute of Education, and accountability and social change. (JB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Change, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Social...
This handbook is designed to help state leaders form vital connections between schools and communities to improve student learning. It explains that community schools are beneficial because they meet students' basic needs, including safety; offer high quality curriculum and teaching aligned with academic standards; provide learning experiences that extend beyond the traditional school day; show students opportunities for success beyond academics; and engage students as active learners and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Schools, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, School...
This guide is the third in a series of eleven generated in 1978 as the result of workshops that focused on peer training, a different approach to teaching. The workshops provided the opportunity for members of eleven identified role groups to work together with peers to examine the relationship between their specific role group and community education and the ways in which they could stimulate their peers to improve role performance and effectiveness. This booklet focuses on community education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, School Community...
Growing from an intense interest in community control of education in the mid-1960s, the National Teacher Corps indicated that its programs must reflect shared decision making at the local level. More specifically, guidelines for programs stipulated that parents, representatives of the local community, state educational personnel, higher education personnel, professional association representatives, teachers, and administrators be involved in collaborative decision making. The suggested vehicle...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Education, School Community Relationship,...
This paper explores the concept of the community school. A community school emphasizes wholehearted involvement by all living in the designated community area. The Porter Rural School, Missouri, established by Marie Turner Harvey with the help of Evelyn Dewey and her father John Dewey, was an outstanding example of the community school concept during the 1910s and 1920s. This small Missouri school was recognized throughout the United States for the community school principles espoused by John...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Participation, School Community...
Three network studies in education are reviewed in order to assess the current "state of the art." New directions for developing social network analysis (SNA) in education, based upon experiences from a study of school-community relations in Pontiac, Michigan, are suggested. One concern for the future of SNA stems from the elevation of distrust among participants in a turbulent environment such as Pontiac's. As a result, the kinds of reflective questions that are posed by network...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Environment, Networks, Research Problems, School Community Relationship,...
The primary purpose of an advisory council is to assist and advise the teacher and administration in planning, organizing, and conducting an instructional program in agricultural education that will effectively meet the needs of the people in the community. Advisory councils are classified as general (serves all of vocational education or a selected occupational segment), local option (serves as a specific consulting committee), and ad hoc (serves to advise on a particular problem or task). The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Program Development, School Community...
Twenty experts from eighteen countries attended the meeting, which was co-organized by the Intangible Heritage Section of UNESCO and the Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU). They discussed in three successive sessions three subjects concerning community involvement in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH): (1) the definition and identification of communities and groups; (2) the involvement of communities in inventorying their ICH; and (3) the involvement of communities in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, International Cooperation, Community...
Learning is neither limited to what is formally taught nor to time spent in classrooms. It occurs whenever and wherever the learner interacts with the surrounding environment. All facets of the community (not just the school) provide learning opportunities--thus the term learning community. This brief provides in-depth answers to the following questions: (1) What do we mean by caring, learning community? (2) Why should a school be the hub of a community and a classroom be a student's home away...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Performance Contracts, Spiritual Development, Classroom Environment, School Community...
School-community partnerships are collaborations that, under optimal conditions, blend resources of at least one school and sometimes a group of schools or a school district with resources in a given neighborhood or the larger community. Such partnerships can weave together a large number of resources and strategies to enhance caring communities that support all youth and their families to enable success in school and beyond. This guidebook underscores the "why" of school-community...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Partnerships in Education,...
Because vocational education programs must be an integral part of the community in which they exist, it is necessary to have close cooperation between the school and those in the work force. One of the most effective ways of providing cooperation is through the vocational education advisory committee. At present, there are about 20,000 such groups. These committees are unique in their ability to provide occupational information and aid in establishing vocational education programs. Their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Evaluation, Guidelines, Program Development, School Community...
Because of the rate of change today due to the explosion of knowledge, all formal schooling in America, without exception, is more damaging to children than beneficial. What is needed is a program which uses the natural curiosity, intelligence, energy, and idealism of students in a context which permits both them and their community to change. The community itself should become a laboratory for the inquiries of students, and the school should be equipped with 20th and 21st century media to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Technology, Mass Media, School Community...
This program offers a college curriculum of specially tailored courses and consultative aids for teachers in the local school system in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The plan was developed permitting teachers to contract with the University, individually or in groups, for specific projects dealing with problems in the local school system. Course credit was given in 9, 6, or 3 quarter-hour units. Coursework resulted in the creation of many pilot programs now implemented in the Albert Lea public school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, School Community Relationship,...
Our analysis of California's state department of education's Request for Proposals (RFP) for a project to "Build Collaboration for Mental Health Services in California Schools" leads us to underscore both the opportunity presented by the proposed work and the potential for serious unintended negative consequences. This brief is designed to share our analyses and to highlight what must be addressed when the project gets underway if it is to contribute significantly to a broad mental...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mental Health Programs, School Health Services, School Community Relationship,...
At a 1967 institute hosted by the Department of Public Instruction in Iowa, the following three papers were presented: (1) "The School as a Social Institution and Setting for Practice"; (2) "Factors which Affect a Model for School Social Work Practice"; and (3) "The Social Worker as a Link between School, Home, and Community." Appended are the institute program, a list of the trainees and participants by discipline, major responsibilities of school social work as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Institutes (Training Programs), Professional Training, School Community Relationship,...
This document can serve as a model for other junior colleges applying for accreditation. The application includes detailed description of the operation of the college and of its relationship with the community. (MS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), College Administration, Curriculum, School Community...
The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (CAATs) of Canada are discussed under the following chapter headings: I. The Post Secondary Institution in Its Community--the CAATs; II. Responsibility of the Colleges for Adult Education; III. Some Student Concerns; IV. Some Services to Students; V. Professional Staff Development; VI. Professional Training and Related Considerations; VII. New Programs and Emphases; and VIII. Research in Post-Secondary Education. Recommendations are given, and a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education, School Community...
This handbook is a systematic guide for planning and implementing a program of depth interviews either as part of a school's community relations program or as an effort in policy analysis. It includes all necessary information for understanding the advantages and disadvantages of depth interviews, for preliminary planning and preparation, for implementing the program, for conducting the interviews, and for writing a report. The handbook also contains examples of materials that are useful in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews, Questioning Techniques, Research...
New ways of participating in rural communities and in community development have evolved as the structure of rural communities has changed. In some communities, the impetus to redefine and reenergize is strong while, in others, ways to move forward have yet to be identified (Pomeroy 1997). Rural schools serve a vital role in recreating communities in a highly mobile, industrialized society. According to Lyson (2005, 26), "It is important for policy makers, educational administrators, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Development, Rural Schools, School Community Relationship, Foreign...
Most school district administrators recognize the benefits of using parent and community volunteers, including improved school-community relations. But volunteers are not cost free. At their best, volunteers can be a valuable resource for schools and districts. At their worst, volunteers can consume already limited resources. However, their use minimizes the opportunity costs of school district personnel and they can energize public support for levy campaigns. School district personnel will...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Volunteers, Costs, School Districts, School Community Relationship, Political...
A study was conducted to examine the socioeconomic impact of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) on the surrounding community. This study was a follow-up to a previous examination of the economic relationship between the university and the community. The current study examined the short-term measurable economic impact of university operations on the Corpus Christi metropolitan statistical area. In fiscal year 1998, TAMU-CC generated total revenue amounting to $60.2 million, with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Factors, Expenditures, Higher Education, School Community Relationship,...
Adopt-A-School programs are models of school-community involvement and cooperation in which businesses, organizations, and industries adopt schools and contribute funds, personnel, or expertise to those schools for programs, projects, and services. This bulletin highlights the Adopt-A-School program in the Oakland (California) Unified School District and suggests programs, projects, and services that businesses, organizations, and industries might offer to schools. (Author/MLF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, School...
An outstanding physical education program usually enjoys the support of the community, and this support will, in turn, enhance the program. It is the responsibility of the physical education teacher and supervisor to develop community support for his program through various public relations efforts. Because students are the primary interface between a school program and the public, it is important that the physical education teacher establish a good relationship with his students. A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Community Support, Physical Education, School Community Relationship,...
Public opinion matters for the administration of public higher education. Yet, we know little about how members of the public conceptualize these institutions in general, and UW-Madison in particular. This study investigates how Wisconsinites think about UWMadison through investigations of conversations regularly occurring among 36 groups sampled from 27 communities statewide. It reveals a pervasive sense of distance from UW-Madison that is part of a broader sense of disconnection from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Opinion, State Universities, School Attitudes, School Community Relationship,...
The U.S. Census Bureau has created a Census in Schools program called 2010 Census: It's about Us. The program will provide educators with resources to teach the nation's students about the importance of the census so children can help deliver this message to their families. The program will engage America's youth to help ensure every child and every household member is counted in 2010. This fact sheet provides information about the program, its target audiences, program lesson goals, and key...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Census Figures, Lesson Plans, Information Dissemination, School Community...
High school journalists are beginning to look beyond the restrictions of reporting the news of the campus to the larger responsibility of reporting the news of the community. Such a functional approach to news gathering can help school journalists to see the relationship between their school and the community and to discover that learning how to cover one is training for covering the other in a later career. If students see how schools function in the total society and incorporate that into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Journalism, Local Issues, News Reporting, School Community Relationship, School...
The evolution of a run-down inner city elementary school into a flourishing community school is documented by its principal. By going out into the community and visiting in parents' homes, this principal built a base of support for innovations, such as individualized instruction and tutoring, as well as a lunch and breakfast program. Student academic performance improved, and discipline problems (including vandalism) declined. (DS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community, Community Education, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary...
This document contains six essays originating from a workshop held at Estoril, Portugal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The preface describes the focus of the project as an attempt to discover how schools could respond to societal pressures in ways that were both socially responsive and internally creative. The report includes the following essays: (a) Influences on Creativity of the School: Analysis and Taxonomy of the Principal Factors; (b) Strengthening the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Creativity, Creativity Research, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation,...
One of the best forums for teaching creativity in advertising is the student-run advertising agency. It is organized like a typical advertising agency with a creative department, a media department, a research department and an account service department, and has a pyramidic structure. Student-run advertising agencies exist for two primary reasons: (1) they help to give the student experience; and (2) they provide a service to the community. Comments from former participants in student-run...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, College Students, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, School...
This booklet offers guidance to help schools open up their premises and facilities for outside use and to enhance their links with the local community. It highlights the benefits of partnership and offers real examples of the type of activity which is already undertaken in many schools and how it is organized and funded. Also covered are the legal aspects of community use of school property arrangements such as ownership of the premises and the agreements, giving control to others, the roles of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Public Schools, School Community...
A study was conducted to review the progress that local CETA sponsors and LEAs have made towards collaboration. An analysis was made of early prime sponsors and LEA experience under YEDPA based upon the first three parts of a four-part evaluation conducted by the National Council on Employment Policy of YEDPA implementation in 37 CETA prime sponsorships. The implementation study included extensive discussion about CETA-LEA agreements, the mechanics of local change and the difficulties...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperation, Employment Programs, School Community Relationship, School Districts,...
This guide is the fourth in a series of eleven generated in 1978 as the result of workshops that focused on peer training, a different approach to teaching. The workshops provided the opportunity for members of eleven identified role groups to work together with peers to examine the relationship between their specific role group and community education and the ways in which they could stimulate their peers to improve role performance and effectiveness. This booklet focuses on community...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Community Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides,...
The speaker discusses the establishment of a district policy on the selection of books and the procedures that should be followed if a controversy develops. (IRT)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Relationship,...
A summary evaluation of the Crystal Lake, Illinois outdoor education program is contained in this document. The project entitled "A School-Community Outdoor Education Project" is a year round program for teaching in, for, and about the outdoors. Designed largely to assist teachers to meet educational objectives relating to the out-of-doors and man's environment, the program was also planned to enrich learning in all subject areas. Major attention of the report focuses on the testing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Outdoor Education, Participant Satisfaction, Program...
The Drug Infusion Project, sought to Discretionary Fund of the Secretary of Education, sought to infuse drug education into ongoing subjects at all grade levels and to promote thinking of drug education as being done at the same time, rather than in addition to, ongoing subjects. The background of the project came from the Department of Education monograph, "Schools Without Drugs," which discusses themes such as the danger of drugs, the negative consequences of drugs on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program...
The Home and School Institute has developed three plans to train teachers and administrators to work more effectively with parents and the community. The basic goals of these programs are a) to improve the skills and attitudes of participants in working with parents and the community, b) to provide parent reinforcement of children's learning, c) to build more supportive community-school relationships, and d) to design and disseminate tested materials that can be of use to other schools. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Influence, Inservice Education, Parent Participation, Parent School...
One of the projects selected for the University Urban Interface Program at the University of Pittsburgh was that of studying the impact of the university on the city of Pittsburgh. In pursuing this goal, studies were made of university-related local business volume; value of local business property committed to university-related business; credit expansion from university-related deposits; unrealized local business because of university activities; jobs attributable to the presence of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Colleges, Community Programs, Economic Factors, Higher Education, School Community...
This document describes the public relations strategies employed by the Lakewood (Ohio) City School district to obtain voter support for a school levy. Various aspects of this successful campaign are described, including the formation of administrative committees to oversee campaign activities, steering and citizens' committees, the use of publicity, the development of an operating calendar, and finances associated with the campaign. (RAO)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Public Relations, Publicity, School Budget...
Competent school administrators should keep up-to-date on areas of information relating to their field and might find useful the following 12 most important elements in a performance accountability code for school executives: strive for fair and equitable treatment of the staff; make competence and performance the key to promotion; make decisions without undue delay; be consistent and do not vacillate; delegate responsibility and support those to whom you delegate; be understood; keep your...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Educational...
This digest examines the current status of outside attempts to censor literature in the school library. The digest (1) reports on several court cases which came about because literary works were removed from school libraries; (2) discusses the censors and their opponents; and (3) reviews some guidelines for new teachers who might be presented with censorship dilemmas. (NKA)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Censorship, Court Litigation, Court Role, Information Sources, Literature, School...
This guide is a strategic "ground level" guide for presidents and chancellors and other campus leaders that offers a working definition of public engagement for institutions of higher education, provides examples of campus-wide commitment to engagement initiatives, and proposes concrete actions for institutions, public policy makers, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to promote a fuller commitment to the concept of engagement. The guide contains a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Colleges, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Models, Participation, School...
In order to better serve the senior population in its community, Johnson County Community College (JCCC) (Kansas) created the Brown and Gold Club (named after the school colors), which offers JCCC education and special events to adults age 55 and over. Membership in the club now exceeds 4,800 people. Not only does the club serve the senior population, it fosters community and personal support for the college and provides a sense of maturity to college life. A survey was conducted in the fall of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students, School Community Relationship, Two Year...
This report examines the underutilization of K-12 school facilities and the hidden advantages and disadvantages in expanding K-12 school facilities beyond a 7-hour weekday. It concludes that the benefits from extending facility hours for more teaching, increased extracurricular activities, and community use appear to far outweigh the more traditional limitations on the use of school facilities. A list of ways school facilities can be used by the surrounding community is provided, followed by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Facilities Management, Public Schools, School...
The National Park System (NPS) offers a wealth of learning opportunities outside the classroom. The NPS is reaching out to educators nationwide to enrich student learning with the power of place, using public lands as classrooms where students can view historic artifacts and structures and interact with the natural world. Programs at Canyonlands National Park, Utah; George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia; and Badlands National Park, South Dakota are highlighted.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Outdoor Education, Parks, Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Field Trips,...
This document presents information and development materials about "School Building Day" (an event spotlighting the school facility and developing support and pride in the community's schools) to help local school districts conduct their own "School Building Day" to be held on April 20th of 2001. Included are lists of suggested activities and community resources, several preparatory checklists addressing school and playground safety and the learning environment, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Neighborhood Schools, Program...
Abstracts of 12 documents in the ERIC system focus on the varieties of community schools. Topics covered include shared facilities, legal matters, and a discussion of the philosophical assumptions and attitudes underlying the community education movement. One document contains mainly Canadian entries, and two are literature reviews. (MLF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Schools, Literature Reviews, School Community...
This manual is intended to be used by parents, teachers, school administrators, students, community organizations and residents as a guide to identifying, planning, implementing, and maintaining large- and small-scale school improvement projects. Its sections address: (1) key terms and concepts; (2) types of school improvement projects; (3) creating the school improvement partnership; (4) planning a school improvement project-getting started; (5) planning a school improvement project-design;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Support, Educational Facilities Improvement, Partnerships in Education,...
