A Sourcebook for Organizers of Charter School Planning Workshops.

This sourcebook is a collection of some planning workshop ideas and tools that have been used by organizers of charter school workshops in a number of states. The purpose of the sourcebook is to help organizations assist potential charter school founders in their school planning through the applicat...

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Corporate Author: Charter Friends National Network, St. Paul, MN
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998.
Subjects:
Charter Schools.
Educational Change.
Educational Planning.
Elementary Secondary Education.
Program Development.
Program Implementation.
Reference Materials.
Resource Materials.
School Choice.
Workshops.
Reform Efforts > Sourcebooks
Guides, Non-Classroom.
Genre:
Guides, Non-Classroom.
Physical Description:38 pages
Format: Microfilm Book
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Summary:
This sourcebook is a collection of some planning workshop ideas and tools that have been used by organizers of charter school workshops in a number of states. The purpose of the sourcebook is to help organizations assist potential charter school founders in their school planning through the application, chartering, and approval processes. The first section, "Designing and Organizing Effective Workshops," walks the workshop organizers through a step-by-step process for designing workshops to teach charter school founders how to plan the startup of a charter school. Selecting topics, recruiting speakers, choosing materials and presentation strategies, scheduling, and marketing the workshops are discussed. The second section, "Workshop Topics and Materials" contains: (1) a model workshop series; (2) a list of possible speakers; (3) workshop organizer tools and materials; (4) a list workshop topics and materials included in the full 500-page sourcebook; and (5) materials on each topic collected from 6 organizations that have conducted similar workshops in their own states. (SLD)
Note:Availability: Full 500-page version from the Charter Friends Network: e-mail: info@charterfriends.org ($30); Web site: http://www.charterfriends.org/sourcebook.html.
Microform.
Call Number:ED426135 Microfiche
Audience:
Practitioners. ericd
Reproduction Note:
Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.