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Download full textFirestone, William A.; And Others – 1983
To learn more about the Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESA), Research for Better Schools initiated a multi-year study of RESAs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This report specifically describes local educators' perceptions about RESA services and the content areas in which RESAs offered help. It also suggests how successful service…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Education Service Centers
Fogoros, Anne Walsh – 1981
Project WE CARE (Workers' Education and Community Awareness of Resources for Education), in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, developed, implemented, and documented the process of implementing adult basic education program linkage/outreach with business, industry, and human service organizations. The project emphasis was on educating human service…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Information Services, Community Resources
Mader, William D. – 1970
This evaluation attempts to measure the extent and effectiveness of ESEA Title I programs designed to meet the needs of disadvantaged children and apprizes the public and the legislature of program outcomes. In keeping with USOE requirements for evaluating Title I programs, this document is constructed of (1) responses to USOE probes by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
Direct linkHoffman, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
One of the greatest challenges for those who study schools and their success in educating students is defining the characteristics of those organizations that are successful, and recognizing the variables that exist to support the actions of the members of the organization. In this era of assessment and accountability, school districts struggle to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Federal Legislation, Focus Groups
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hodes, Carol L.; Foster, John C.; Pritz, Sandra G.; Kelley, Patricia – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
As part of a multiyear research study on the preparation of educators to use assessment data for instructional improvement, the present study is a pilot test of a research-based professional development intervention for career-technical teachers. Forty-eight educators at nine sites in five states participated in a 1-day workshop followed by…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Mentors, Instructional Improvement, Teacher Workshops
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Public Welfare, Harrisburg. Bureau of Child Day Care Services. – 1993
During 1992, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare instituted several new collaborative projects to increase training opportunities for child care employees in the state: (1) to assure that high quality training would continue to be offered; (2) to respond to the mandate for ongoing training for all child care workers; and (3) to subsidize…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
PASSAGE, 1990
This document consists of 11 issues of a workplace and job-skills information newsletter specifically designed for adult education program practitioners and their students. The issues are preceded by a final report on the project. The purposes of the newsletter were to disseminate "hands-on" career and job development information of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Pennsylvania School Boards Association, Inc., Harrisburg. – 1977
A commission charged with examining the process of Pennsylvania school board policy making as it relates to the roles of the board and the superintendent expresses a number of concerns and makes recommendations. Broad areas identified as needing continuous attention by boards and superintendents are the appraisal of goals and objectives, inservice…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Education, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy
Eastern Lancaster County School District, New Holland, PA. – 1972
This cooperative developmental workshop for teachers, counselors, and administrators was intended to build an understanding of and commitment to career education by working in small groups to develop career education units for demonstration to the group as a whole. Lectures, discussion sessions, demonstrations, and work-team sessions focused on…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Career Development, Career Education, Cooperative Planning
Banilower, Eric R.; Fulp, Sherri L.; Warren, Camille L. – Horizon Research, Inc. (NJ1), 2010
This report summarizes the activities and findings of the external evaluation of the "Science: It's Elementary" (SIE) program during the period from July 2009 through June 2010. The SIE program is managed by ASSET Inc. and overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). SIE is an initiative aimed at improving elementary…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Case Studies, Vignettes
Peer reviewedBradley, Curtis H. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1978
Program VITAL is a team of field resource persons working through resident resource persons to help beginning vocational teachers in the eastern region of Pennsylvania. The tools used in this field-based competency-based teacher education program include self-paced individualized learning modules, microteaching, and video recording with peer- and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Competency Based Teacher Education, Cooperating Teachers, Field Experience Programs
BURKET, CLIFFORD A.; CORRIGAN, RONALD J. – 1966
INITIAL PHASES OF A DEPTH INQUIRY INTO STUDENT TEACHING AS A COMPONENT OF TEACHER EDUCATION WERE DEVOTED TO A SERIES OF MEETINGS AMONG UNIVERSITY AND STATE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, COOPERATING AND STUDENT TEACHERS, AND OUTSTANDING EDUCATORS. THESE MEETINGS LED TO AGREEMENT ON MORE THAN 50 PROPOSITIONS OR SUGGESTIONS BEARING ON…
Descriptors: Colleges, Inservice Teacher Education, Public Schools, State Government
Neubauer, Antonia – 1984
This study examines local, ongoing inservice practices and programs for school board members in Pennsylvania in order to devise a program that local districts can adapt or adopt in response to their own needs. Following a brief introduction, a summary describes how data for the study were gathered by means of a series of interviews and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Lewis, James P. – 1981
This publication contains abstracts of research projects in vocational education conducted in Pennsylvania. The directory also lists the research, exemplary, and curriculum activities which were conducted during the 1979-80 fiscal year. All projects listed were supported with federal vocational funds under Public Law 94-482. Information contained…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education
