The primary purpose of this guidebook is to support a learning community that promotes the growth, quality, and sustainability of Community Schools across Wisconsin. This document provides an overview of Community School models and supports, including: a list of the current districts implementing Community Schools in Wisconsin; information on how…

This guide, in two sections, emphasizes a community-based, school-focused collaborative approach to preventing youth suicide in Wisconsin. Cooperative school district and community agency endeavors frame the approach. The following three-part philosophy undergirds it: First, youth suicide is a community problem requiring a community solution best…

This pamphlet outlines the role of Wisconsin's assistant principals as it relates to students, the administrative team, staff, curriculum, and the community. It also presents a brief job description developed for the assistant principal in a senior high school of 1,100 students that has only one assistant administrator. (Author/IRT)

This resource and planning guide on school social work is designed to provide school districts in Wisconsin, community agencies, and school social work practitioners alike, with a system for enhancing the interrelationships of the child, the family, the school, and the community. Topics discussed are: (1) the practice of social work in the…

This manual provides librarians with suggestions and patterns for decorations, promotion, resources (print, nonprint, and human), and activities and events for a community cooperative program providing library services to children during the summertime. Several ways in which the theme, Merlin's Midsummer Magic could be developed are suggested;…

Until recently, teen pregnancy and birth rates had declined steadily in the United States in recent years. Despite these declines, the United States has the highest teen birth rate and one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among all industrialized nations. To help young people reduce their risk for pregnancy and STIs,…

Until recently, teen pregnancy and birth rates had declined in the United States. Despite these declines, U.S. teen birth and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates remain among the highest in the industrialized world. Given the need to focus limited prevention resources on effective programs, Advocates for Youth undertook exhaustive reviews…

The school community resource book on child abuse and neglect is the result of a 12-month project to aid Wisconsin school districts in developing community teams who would in turn work with the schools in setting up a policy and procedure concerned with the identification, reporting, referral, and prevention of child abuse/neglect. Sections…

Materials for the fourth year of the Wisconsin Families in Education program are included in this document. These materials are intended to help schools to organize more parent and community involvement programs. The material is organized into five packets. The first packet, the introductory packet, contains a discussion of the themes for the…

The intent of this field tested instructional package is to acquaint the student with the interdependence of society and industry as related to the area of communications. Defining behavioral objectives, the course description includes a media guide, suggested classroom activities, and sample student evaluation forms, as well as the basic…