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Valdes, Plano B., Jr.; Hardcastle, Mia – 1974
Project LECA (Local Environment in III Century America) was designed by Hillsborough Community College as a 10-month series of seminars, forums, speeches, public debate, and other events on environmental concerns that affect the nation, state, and the Tampa Bay Area. In all, 2,380 persons have participated directly in the LECA programs held, which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Ecology, Environment
Palm Beach County Health Dept., West Palm Beach, FL. – 1973
Information about the Palm Beach County Health Department Migrant Project for 1972 is presented in this annual progress report. Information on services provided by the Project as prescribed by the Migrant Health Branch is included. Major topics include program objectives, relationships and contributions, staff orientation and training, a general…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Environment, Evaluation, Health Education
Natale, Jo Anna – Executive Educator, 1994
Until recently, school executives have been too busy responding to growing school violence to worry about their own safety. Although teachers and students are most common targets, recent murders of three superintendents and an assistant principal show top administrators are vulnerable to misdirected anger and frustration. Administrators should not…
Descriptors: Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Homicide, School Administration
Hubschman, Betty; Lutz, Marilyn; King, Christine; Wang, Jia; Kopp, David – Online Submission, 2006
Students and faculty have had numerous disruptions this academic year with Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma developing into major stressors. During this innovative session, we will examine some of the challenges and strategies used by faculty to work with students to maintain empathy and academic rigor in times of stress and disruption, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, College Faculty, Stress Variables, Natural Disasters
Robinson, George B.; And Others – 1996
This publication is designed for both classroom teachers and nonformal educators of young people in grades 6 through 12. It can provide a 6- to 8-week course of study on the watershed with students participating in activities as they are ordered in the guide, or activities may be used in any order with educators selecting those appropriate for the…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Environmental Education, Groundwater
Sims, David Melton – 1966
The lower division grade point averages and scores on the Florida Twelfth Grade Testing Program for 1221 students from 17 Florida junior colleges, and 25 operationally defined institutional variables (including general characteristics, institutional indexes of faculty load, curricular characteristics, physical plant, and fiscal characteristics) of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade Prediction
Floyd, David B.; Parker, Danny S. – 1995
A Florida elementary school cafeteria, retrofitted with a fluorescent lighting system that dims in response to available daylight, was evaluated through real time measurement of lighting and air conditioning power, work plane illumination, and interior/exterior site conditions. The new system produced a 27 percent reduction in lighting power due…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Dining Facilities, Elementary Schools
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Simpson, Timothy A. – Communication Research, 1995
Offers a communicative, dialogic approach to studying urban historic districts. Focuses on several contemporary conflicts concerning the meaning of "community" in Ybor City, a national landmark historic district in Tampa, Florida, to reveal how people actively occupy, struggle over, and use such urban spaces. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Community, Community Development, Conflict
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Snyder, Karolyn J.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1992
To address the social challenges facing schools, administrators must revitalize the work culture. Borrowing from successful business practices, the School Management Institute has implemented a 25-day Managing Productive Schools leadership training program in Florida, Minnesota, and Virginia. The program is based on the cultural conditions,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Training, Management Development, Models
Dunlop, Beth – Architectural Record, 1997
Examines a Florida Montessori school design that does not use air conditioning and is naturally lighted. Discusses design considerations that took advantage of natural surroundings, the architectural approach that helped bring the outdoors closer to the classroom, and the environmental pay-off. (GR)
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Classroom Design, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design
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Jang, Yuri; Bergman, Elizabeth; Schonfeld, Lawrence; Molinari, Victor – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2006
Responding to the dramatic growth in Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs), the present study focused on mental health among older residents in ALFs. We assessed the effects of physical health constraints (chronic conditions, functional disability, and self-rated health) and psychosocial resources (social network, sense of mastery, religiosity, and…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Intervention, Social Networks, Mental Health
Flanagan, Brian; Lucas, Nell – 1988
The Haitian Retention Program (HRP) is designed to help illiterate and unskilled Haitian immigrants to Palm Beach County (Florida) learn the English language through regular class attendance. Although many Haitians are enthusiastic about enrolling in adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, they are not accustomed to attending…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Attendance
Schramm, Charles F. – 1976
Classroom processes dealing with both cognitive and socioemotional factors are studied to investigate the relationship of teacher threat behaviors to the academic achievement of educationally disadvantaged children. The specific objective is to supply evidence relating academic achievement to a positive socioemotional climate. It is hypothesized…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Change Agents, Classroom Environment
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Carney, Jamie S.; Shannon, David M.; Murphy, Cindy – Journal of School Violence, 2005
This study examined conditions of safety and violence in South Florida elementary schools. Although conditions were generally considered safe in these schools, approximately one-half of the elementary school students in the study did express some concerns about their safety, especially in school bathrooms and the area outside of their school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, School Safety, Academic Achievement
DEMMING, JOHN S.; SMITH, WALTER D. – 1958
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LATE ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF THE TRANSFER CHILD AND OTHER MEMBERS WITHIN THE CLASSROOM STRUCTURE WAS INVESTIGATED. FOUR ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF LATE SCHOOL ENTRANCE WERE EXAMINED. NOTED EFFECTS WERE ON--(1) THE TOTAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE CLASSROOM, (2) THE…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Psychological Patterns, School Entrance Age
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