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Blair Wriston; Nancy Duchesneau – Education Trust, 2024
Student, family, and community engagement is an important ingredient to foster students' social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD). In this brief, the importance and impact of meaningful engagement--building personal relationships, trust, and mutual respect between students and their educators, families, and communities--is described, and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Student Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2010
In light of recent data showing that educational attainment rates in the United States have stagnated, the Obama administration and others have called for renewed efforts to bolster higher education outcomes. Strengthening the role of community colleges is undoubtedly an important component of any plan to dramatically increase the number of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Elementary Secondary Education, Industry, Educational Attainment
Atkinson, Kim – British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2019
This revised Early Learning Framework is the culmination of a collaborative process that included early childhood educators, primary teachers, academics, Indigenous organizations, Elders, government, and other professionals. The first Early Learning Framework published in 2008 changed the landscape of early years practice in British Columbia. It…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Inquiry
Bourbon, Julie – Trusteeship, 2008
This past June, the Iowa River overflowed its banks and deluged 20 buildings on the University of Iowa's Iowa City campus. As the floodwaters finally receded, regents and administrators on the Iowa campus began dealing with all the ramifications and lessons of the flooding--including the key roles of testing emergency plans, nonstop communication,…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Crisis Management, Emergency Programs, Sustainable Development
Bagin, Don; And Others – 1985
This volume provides information and recommendations about public relations to assist school administrators in developing effective communication. The document contains 15 chapters. "The Scope of Public Relations," chapter 1, specifies characteristics of and individuals responsible for an effective program. Chapter 2, "Personal Public Relations,"…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Communication Skills, Community Involvement, Community Surveys
Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC. – 1987
This guide lays out the issues, objections, responses, and strategies involved with expanding the School Breakfast Program in a state or a school district. The guide describes in lay terms the particulars of the School Breakfast Program, and outlines successful state and local campaign strategies. It contains the following chapters: (1) The School…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Community Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
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Elsner, Paul A. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1984
Explores assumptions about the nature of leadership, change, and the future with a view toward identifying realistic organizational activities that community college leaders can undertake. Concludes by outlining some anticipatory strategies that can be used to develop leaders at both the local and national levels. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Government Role
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Hobson, Anthony Ray; Glasman, Naftaly S. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1985
Describes a study of the nature of the changing authority relationship between community colleges and their statewide administration. Focuses on statewide mandates and community college compliance in California. Indicates strong state influence on processes for goal achievement and a trend toward increasingly centralized decision making. (LAL)
Descriptors: Centralization, College Administration, Community Colleges, Decision Making
New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2001
This brief was derived from the discussions of [New England Resource Center for Higher Education's] NERCHE's think tank for coordinators of GEAR UP school-college partnerships. The insights of these coordinators point to the principle that it is the quality of the relationships among the partners that determines the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Institutional Cooperation, Higher Education
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Puyear, Donald E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1985
Suggests that increases in state control necessitate new governance skills of community college leaders. Examines various state organizational structures and the nature of state control, emphasizing legislative intervention, state involvement in operational matters, and state-level governing boards. Feels that state coordination can enhance…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Governance
Martorana, S. V. – 1986
Community colleges are increasingly influenced by state-level policies and dependent upon state financial support, making it a matter of necessity for community college leaders to develop positive liaisons with state public policy makers and law makers. Given the need for positive relations with state officials, community college leaders face a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Government Role
Richardson, Richard C., Jr.; Wolverton, Mimi – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1994
Evolution of "quality" in higher education as an institutional concept is traced, and differences between approaches at the institutional and state levels are explored. Contrasting approaches in Florida and Illinois are examined, particularly in the case of Miami-Dade Community College (Florida). Contribution of the different approaches…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Gilley, J. Wade – 1991
This book explores three major imperatives of American higher education in the decades ahead. First, colleges and universities must respond to six critical challenges: minority participation; financing quality education; replacing quality faculty; affordability; institutional ethics; and national competitiveness. Second, strong leadership is…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Economics
Brawer, Florence B. – 1985
This discussion of articulation sees community colleges operating as the pivotal point between the "feeder" secondary schools and the "receiver" four-year colleges, emphasizing some of the difficulties inherent in this position and some of the programs undertaken by community colleges to improve the articulation process. The first section of the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
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