University education partners have great potential to facilitate schools' moving from a school led traditional approach for family involvement to an asset based, empowerment approach to partnerships. On this journey, educators grapple with the cognitive dissonance of change as they engage their emerging multilingual families in the lives of their…

This is the seventh annual report of the National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services. Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the National Advisory Council will cease to exist with the implementation of the new, 1974 education amendments. In essence, Title III will be continued in Title IV of the new…

The Milwaukee Public Schools, upon the completion of the second year of their environmental education project, report the evaluation of the eight component parts that make up the project. The components are: Teacher Leadership Workshop; Inservice Workshops; Curriculum Development Workshop; Open-End Grant Program; Field Trips Pilot Project; Student…

This study examines a representative sample of innovative projects funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in an effort to identify some of the factors that contribute to constructive change in the schools. In particular, the study investigates local takeover of Title III programs and attempts to determine why some…

To learn about current co-teaching and collaboration practices in secondary school settings, a study team from the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners conducted an online survey administered to district leaders in charge of English Learner programs and services throughout the country. In…

This module was developed as one of eight dissemination packages prepared under an E.S.E.A. Title III project. The package is designed so that the learner may work at his own pace, within a maximum time limit. The goals of the module are to describe briefly the ways counseling and other personnel can use group leadership skills in three basic…

Project Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE), launched in December 1969, funded under Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, uses such cooperative strategies as the Jobs-Alike Work Conference, The Design for Materials Sharing, and The Inter-City Program Transplant. The program goals of the Memphis component were to…

The final report of the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Region II Adult and Continuing Education Staff Development Project, administered by Montclair State College, synthesizes the project's efforts for regionalization of staff development for New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Chapter 1 covers administrative…

An ESEA Title III program to improve leadership capabilities of educators was conducted in both actual and model school settings during 1966-69. Participants included staff personnel, consultants, administrative and teaching personnel from cooperating school districts, and board of education members from a consortium school. This report discusses…

English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities are an increasing presence in schools in the United States. Title I and Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act require that these students meet the same academic grade-level standards and participate in content assessments as their fluent-English speaking peers without…

This report discusses the kinds of objectives that supervisors should pursue and proposes an approach that emphasizes human resource development and organizational enrichment as proper emphases for modern supervisors. The author illustrates the advantages of his approach over traditional and contemporary supervisory approaches by considering four…

This ESEA Title III document synthesizes three reports from regional workshops held between September 1969 and January 1970. The topics concern issues discussed at these workshops. The first two papers, reflecting a consensus of workshop participants, indicate the essential conditions that should exist within State educational agencies to…

This publication reviews a statewide change effort in New York conceived of as a comprehensive, systematic process of change involving the participation of a total community in the examination and redefinition of its educational needs and goals. As a change strategy, Redesign attempts to deal with the entire system of education and is concerned…

This report summarizes an evaluation of educational needs in the areas of health and physical education, physical recreation, and athletic programs within the Fresno City Unified School District. The criteria of evaluation were primarily comparative. A standard of skill development was first derived and then used to compare the present performance…

The implementation of the Science - A Process Approach in more than 70 school districts (about 9,000 elementary school classrooms) in the state of Texas is described in this report. The following objectives were established for the implementation project: demonstrate a curriculum innovation in science; demonstrate an inservice education program…