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Download full textDogan, Enis; de Mello, Victor Bandeira; Lewis, Sharon; Simon, Candace; Uzzell, Renata; Horwitz, Amanda; Casserly, Michael – Council of the Great City Schools, 2011
In this study, the authors examined the academic performance of 18 urban districts that participated in the 2009 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The districts participated in grade 4 and grade 8 reading and mathematics assessments. Eleven of these districts also participated in the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Public Schools, National Competency Tests
Southwest Florida School-to-Careers Consortium, Fort Myers. – 1999
This curriculum guide for middle school student development was created in response to needs expressed by business and other organizations throughout the Southwest Florida School-to-Careers Consortium. The guide encompasses four curriculum categories: academic achievement, career development, personal and social development, and community…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Course Content, Education Work Relationship, Individual Development
Florida State Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee. – 2000
This brochure introduces Environmental Citizenship in Florida's Middle Schools, which is a school-wide exercise aimed at making middle school students more aware of the natural world around them and their effect on that world. As many school-study areas as possible are used to help students learn how the environment can affect all aspects of their…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Middle Schools
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1993
This guide describes the exploratory vocational wheel for middle schools. The wheel, developed by the Florida Department of Education, is a scheduling strategy that allows middle school students to experience selected learning objectives from a variety of middle and junior high school exploratory vocational courses. Course content is generated…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration, Competence, Competency Based Education
Bell-Ruppert, Nancy – 1999
Systemic change in education refers to many facets of a community working together to support and improve how well children learn. This study examines the perceptions of teachers involved in systemic change as math and science resource teachers. In Duval County, Florida, a group of teachers were hired to assist systemic change as part of a 5-year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Instructional Leadership
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Workforce Development. – 1996
This manual is designed for persons who are responsible for implementing career-mentoring programs, especially for middle and junior high school girls, emphasizing nontraditional, high-wage occupations. Such a program is recommended by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act as a connecting activity. The manual is organized in two sections plus…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Workforce Development. – 1996
This manual has been developed to assist mentors in working with mentees in a career mentoring program. The manual is divided into four sections. The first section provides information on how to be an effective career mentor. It suggests strategies to make the time mentors spend with mentees meaningful. The second section provides information on…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities
Koepke, Mary – Teacher, 1990
A description is given of how the principal of a middle school introduced innovations in teachings methods and class scheduling to improve students' behavior and academic achievement. (JD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation
Lee County School District, Ft. Myers, FL. Dept. of Environmental Education and Instructional Development Services. – 1989
Because of its geographical location, topography, and climate, South Florida has unique water problems. When the rainfall situation is combined with changing land use patterns and increasing population growth rates, the result is often water shortages in some areas and floods in others. This study unit looks at some of the reasons for the present…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Educational Objectives, Environmental Education, Field Trips
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1986
This manual presents Florida curriculum frameworks for selected language arts courses for grades six through eight. Frameworks for up to three levels of each of the following courses are provided in the manual: language arts, journalism, English for non-native speakers, communications, reading, writing, speech and debate, creative writing,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Objectives, Creative Writing, Debate
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International, Washington, DC. – 1993
Designed for middle school through high school students, this unit contains eight lesson plans that focus on Florida state law. The state lessons correspond to lessons in the volume, "Antidote: Civic Responsibility. Drug Avoidance Lessons for Middle School & High School Students." Developed to be presented by educators, law student,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Drug Education
Zylinski, Annette; Wagner, Russell – 1987
A project was conducted in Broward County, Florida, to help students ranging in age from 14 to 25 to become more openminded in regard to career options for women and to encourage them to participate in nontraditional vocational programs. Because of their generally accepted openmindedness, students in middle schools received additional emphasis.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Information Dissemination
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1990
This guide provides descriptions of the social studies courses that are offered in Florida schools for students in grades six through eight. Specifically, the guide presents broad guidelines for course content and outcomes and is intended to assist educators in developing specific instructional plans for given subject areas. The guide is designed…
Descriptors: Civics, Course Content, Cultural Education, Geography Instruction
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1994
This package consists of a teacher's guide and 12 learning modules that have been designed for middle school home economics exploration and orientation courses. Presented in the teacher's guide are suggested instructional strategies for using the learning modules in interdisciplinary settings. The following topics are covered in the learning…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration, Child Care Occupations, Classroom Techniques
