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Winter, Mildred – 1995
Home visits are becoming an important part of family education and support programs such as Even Start. Over time, the objectives of home visits have shifted from a deficit model, which was aimed solely at solving problems, to an empowerment model, which focuses on ameliorating conditions which lead to familial problems. The empowerment model…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Family Life, Family Programs, Family School Relationship
Farmer, Lesley S. J. – 1995
This book offers practical advice to school library media specialists for developing and improving leadership skills. It is asserted that societal crises like illiteracy, poverty, alienation, and socioeconomic divisions make librarians "ecologists" of the mind. Librarians ensure equitable access to others' insights into life's concerns, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment, Folk Culture
Lee, Courtland C. – 2003
This series of five interrelated modules is an update and revision of "Saving the Native Son: Empowerment Strategies for Young Black Males (1996)." It offers specific strategies for empowering young African American males to help them achieve optimal educational and social success. Empowerment is a developmental process by which people who are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Black Education, Black Students
Wells, Ruth Herman – 1998
This lesson guide is one in a series for teachers and counselors on teaching problem-solving interventions and coping skills to troubled youth. The series is aimed at training adolescents to succeed while empowering them to avoid the social pressure to drop out of school. The goal of this guide is to convince students they need an education to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Coping, Decision Making Skills, Decision Support Systems

Eastlund, Joyce O. – Music Educators Journal, 1991
Discusses site-based management as a means of school reform. Emphasizes the advantages of such decentralization for music education. Compares the traditional approach with a reform alternative in terms of decisions affecting teaching, learning, school climate, and curriculum. Urges implementation of site-based management as a means of involving…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville, MD. – 1998
Intended to enable parents to support and advocate for their children during transitions, this guide contains training activities and hands-on action tools to help parents and staff work in partnership as children transition into and out of Early Head Start, Head Start, child care settings, and elementary schools. The guide is divided into three…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement, High Risk Students
Valentine, Tom, Ed.; Sandlin, Jenny, Ed.; Vreeland, Diane – Beyond Basic Skills: Innovative Teaching Materials for Georgia's Teachers of Adults, 1998
This document, which was developed to assist individuals working in publicly sponsored literacy programs in Georgia, offers instructional plans and practical strategies designed to help teachers empower their students of adult literacy, adult basic education, General Educational Development, and English as a second language. Detailed guidelines…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Advertising
Henderson, Patricia; Gysbers, Norman C. – 1998
What is the job of guidance program staff leaders? Specific, practical support is provided for bringing guidance and program staff together for successful implementation of programs and advocating for them outside the department. Part I, "School Guidance Program Staff Leadership: Evolving Concepts and Practices," addresses overall program…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Advocacy, Educational Counseling
Hiemstra, Roger; Sisco, Burton – 1990
A comprehensive how-to guide is presented to help in developing individualized instruction for adult learners. The guide provides information on planning, organizing, and implementing an effective personalized process for instructing adults to help them achieve their full learning potential. The monograph is divided into three parts: Part 1,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Towns, Kathryn; And Others – 1987
The Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education (PROBE) counseling and referral system is intended to help single parents and displaced homemakers gain greater control over their own lives, careers, and futures. PROBE began in 1975 as a campus-based program at Pennsylvania State University and became community based in 1977. PROBE,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Counseling Services, Displaced Homemakers
Roberts, Richard N.; Rule, Sarah; Innocenti, Mark S. – 1998
This book gives practical advice to students and professionals for developing truly collaborative relationships with families. Long-term goals and proposed support models are outlined to help practitioners learn to address families' unique needs. Chapters of case examples highlight service integration problems. Section 1, "A Model for Practice,"…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Children, Delivery Systems
Radd, Tommie R. – 2003
This book is a guide for teachers, counselors, administrators, and other helping professionals. The focus of the book is to provide an innovative approach to education that develops students' spirit, purpose, and potential. The author shows educators how to: create inviting schools that foster maximum student success; turn classrooms into life…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Character Education, Counseling Techniques
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational and Career Education. – 1992
This guide, which was developed to assist instructors of several Ohio programs for special adult audiences (including programs for displaced homemakers, dislocated workers, single parents who are school dropouts, and adults needing help coordinating work and family roles), contains a series of curriculum modules devoted to selected aspects of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development
Sutcliffe, Jeannie – 1990
This handbook, designed for British adult educators, contains examples of innovative approaches to the continuing education of adults with learning difficulties. It contains 10 sections: (1) using this handbook; (2) self-advocacy and citizen advocacy; (3) learning choices; (4) ways and means of learning; (5) learning for a purpose; (6)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Empowerment, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Kappner, Augusta Souza – 1989
A comprehensive national plan is needed to reverse the declining enrollment and employment of blacks in higher education. Over the last decade, government policies such as cuts in financial aid and the erosion of Head Start, child care, and other programs that benefit the poor have contributed to the negatives trends in minority enrollment. In…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Education, Black Students