A special educator offers a series of guidelines for preparing personnel to provide vocational training for special needs youth, along with strategies for cooperative planning and programs between vocational and special teacher education. (MF)

One-to-one pairing with a single school enables businesses or community organizations to support improvements in public education in a concrete and manageable way. Benefits of school partnerships are discussed, and the procedure for starting such a program is outlined, along with samples of partnerships. (TE)

Prejudices between these subjects begin at college and are strengthened by professional associations, whose conflicting objectives and competition for funds ignore students' needs and block comprehensive programs. Finding common goals is imperative; one school has built facilities for dual usage, utilizes team teaching, and schedules students on…

A collaborative project to build a productive, trusting relationship among university staff and an elementary school staff consisted of initial meetings, involvement with the principal, availability of university staff at the school, classroom visits, classroom management assistance, workshops, and development of classroom projects and a…

Discusses the development of a teaching team structure in one middle school, describing efforts to redefine curriculum, assessment, scheduling, and teaming to foster new roles and relationships for students and teachers. (JPB)

Historically, teachers have primarily worked alone in their classrooms, have served as deliverers of standardized and textual materials, and have been managed. Now, however, they are expected to work in teams, create active-learning curricula, and manage themselves. This paper examines a self-initiated team of K-6 grade teachers working in a…

This booklet, which is intended for practitioners in continuing higher education, examines the rationale for forming partnerships with professional associations and examines considerations in developing and maintaining partnerships. The booklet begins with a few examples of the types and scope of partnerships possible between continuing education…

To obtain practitioner input on the research agenda for adult basic education (ABE), practitioner leaders from the Practitioner Dissemination and Research Network (PRDN) conducted nine focus groups with ABE practitioners in their states. The focus groups examined three topics: issues that concern practitioners in ABE; ways practitioners see their…

Information on school/community partnerships in Virginia is provided in this resource guide, which is divided into five sections. The first section, "Building Community/Classroom Partnerships Through Coalitions," by Jane Asche, discusses recent findings that point to the need for coalitions to improve public education. Successful…

Educators in New Jersey who had joined forces as the New Jersey Consortium for Global Education in order to submit a joint Title-IV C global education proposal with the New Jersey Department of Education experienced two major conflicts when their project was funded. The first conflict involved a difference of perception on the nature and role of…

Current issues are complex and funding is difficult to obtain as adult education providers try to meet the needs of the community, business, and industry; therefore, collaboration can be very advantageous. Information, ideas, and resources can be pooled, and duplication and harmful competition can be avoided. Four factors that are important for…

Little coordination exists among the various federal, state, and local initiatives for educational intervention programs for specially targeted populations. This paper discusses issues involved in the development of coordinated educational programs for disadvantaged pupils, with particular reference to Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and…

Many rural school districts struggling with declining elementary school enrollments will soon face the more complex problems of declining high school enrollment. School districts with only one high school do not have the option of consolidation and must find innovative solutions to the problem of maintaining educational quality with dwindling…

The Saint Clair County Teachers' Institute (Evanston, Illinois) plans and implements a 1-day inservice for 3,000 teachers (grades K-12) each year. The committee in charge of planning and implementing the inservice is composed of two co-chairpersons (each an administrator from a local school district), representatives from the regional…

Starting with the premise that improved collaboration of elementary and secondary school systems with universities and colleges is essential not only to the improvement of education but to its survival, this document summarizes a series of papers on issues pertinent to school-university collaboration in such areas as basic research and evaluation,…