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Alvestad, Kathryn – School Administrator, 1997
The best way to overcome parents' anxiety and possible anger over new assessment methods is to use good teaching practice. This means knowing the teachable population's needs, setting appropriate objectives for them, providing instruction in an appropriate, engaging manner, and giving opportunities to practice and question instructors. A visual…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent School Relationship, Performance Based Assessment
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Blythe, Tina; Gardner, Howard – Educational Leadership, 1990
The Harvard Project Zero research group has been examining the curriculum content issue through the lens of the multiple intelligences (MI) theory, which emphasizes humans' highly varied capacities. This article describes the MI theory, some related research projects, and the theory's implications for elementary and secondary education. Includes…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Change Strategies, Community Relations, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hedington, Rita; Howson, John – Educational Management & Administration, 1995
Summarizes a two-part study examining the role of the school brochure as a marketing tool for (British) primary schools. The 12 local education authorities sampled provided little guidance in preparing, presenting, or distributing brochures. In the four brochures studied, headteachers' attitudes toward using brochures as a marketing tool was…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Community Relations, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Clark, David E. – Parks and Recreation, 1995
Discusses how the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) has addressed concerns about ethics and violations of public trust, especially in the public sector, examining what to do in local communities to meet the growing concern, and discussing the need to educate NRPA members about the value of ethical behavior. (SM)
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Community Relations, Ethics, Moral Values
Hines, Randall W. – Principal, 1993
No matter what the local district offers in the area of school-community relations, the principal can make or break a school's public relations program. Principals can win teachers over by giving them time off for brief, unplanned breaks or for attending their own children's special events. Friendliness toward students, parents, and support staff…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Elementary Education, Parent School Relationship, Principals
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Lannon, Michael; Otjen, Douglas – NASSP Bulletin, 1991
At the 1990 NASSP Convention, the Smaller Secondary School Committee sponsored a session to encourage administrators of small and rural schools to share their successful activities for improving community relations. Schools can schedule conferences for times convenient to working parents, sponsor community dances, mail school newspapers to the…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Parent Participation, Principals, Rural Schools
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Jones, Bernie; Silva, Juliette – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1991
Steps in an integrated model include (1) problem solving (exploration, assessment, goal setting, planning, implementation, evaluation); (2) community building (entering, discovering, developing relationships, building an organization, enhancing capacity, phasing out, exiting); and (3) systems interaction (change agent system, client system, action…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Community Relations, Models
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Blythe, Mary C.; Bradbury, Patricia M. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Massachusetts middle school's Classroom-by-Committee program is based on town council model of subcommittees. Students briefed in self-management techniques choose committees that meet their needs while helping them develop critical thinking skills, set goals, identify problems, and generate solutions. Teachers facilitate learning, guide students…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Committees, Community Relations, Cooperation
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Greene, Kenneth R. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1993
Whether the sex of school board presidents affects their responsiveness to constituents, the operations of their school boards, and the roles of their boards in school district governance was studied for 128 female and 240 male presidents. Only limited differences were found, but women were more likely to view representing the community as a major…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Community Relations
Childress, Herb – Small Town, 1993
Describes what goes on in teenage hangouts and why hangouts are important in providing a social meeting place for teenagers. Discusses physical features that make hangouts attractive, how small communities can effectively manage teenage hangouts, and how teenage hangouts encourage social development including developing a sense of community. (LP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Attitudes, Community Problems, Community Relations
Feldman, Joyce – Environmental Protection, 1993
Communicating the environmental risk involved in projects like public incinerators is part of the education of the community. Presents an outline for communicating with the community that includes communication within the project office; solicitation of public input; development of small group informational activities; shared responsibilities;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Community Relations, Environmental Education
Chan, T. C. – Principal Leadership, 2000
A well-planned maintenance program will prolong a new school building's life expectancy and save enormous sums. A maintenance program should include a facility inventory, a building archive, management of punch-list and warranty items, custodial service, proactive maintenance, a maintenance schedule, and energy conservation features. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Community Relations, Goal Orientation, High Schools
Kemmis, Daniel – 1990
The preamble to Montana's constitution, which expresses gratitude for Montana's landscape, reflects an understanding that the political culture of a place is not something apart from the place itself. By the same token, the strengthening of political culture must take place and must be studied in the context of very specific places and the people…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Community, Community Relations
Stavitsky, Alan G. – 1993
The originators of municipal radio station WNYC foresaw radio as a means of extending city government and an instrument to educate, inform, and entertain the citizens. Because the municipal radio concept emerged in the early 1920s, before the medium's industrial structure was entrenched, an opportunity existed to develop an innovative model of…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, City Government, Community Relations, Mass Media Role
Redington, Scott – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
The author discusses the planning and organizational aspects of publicity, advertising, radio programs, and public appearance that are necessary to provide continuous public and community relations programs for agricultural education. (EA)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Community Relations, Educational Programs, Public Relations
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