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• Acknowledgments
  
  
• Executive Summary

1. OVERVIEW OF THE URBAN SCHOOLS NETWORK
          
   • History
   • The Initial Plan For Technical Assistance: 1992 Summer Institutes
   • Technical Assistance: Launching A Network
   • A Look Ahead
   
   
2. INTEGRATING ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
          
   • Integrating Academic And Vocational Education
   • Why Integrate?
   • Integrating Curriculum In The Urban Schools Network
   • Examples From The Urban Schools Network
   • Lessons Learned
   • Conclusion
   
   
3. WORK- BASED LEARNING
          
   • Definitions And Purposes For Work-Based Learning
   • Types Of Work-Based Learning
   • Linking Work-Based Learning To Classroom Learning
   • Lessons Learned
   • Conclusion: Wbl Is Worth The Trouble
   
   
4. ALTERNATIVE SCHEDULING
          
   • Selected Schedules At Urban Schools Network Sites
   • The Schedule Change Process At Bryan And Other Sites
   • Modifying Instruction To Match The Schedule
   • Lessons Learned: Promising Outcomes And Continuing Challenges
   • Conclusion
   
   
5. WHOLE SCHOOL CHANGE
          
   • The Plans
   • Back To School
   • Breaking Point
   • Breaking Away
   • What Does It Look Like?
   • Lessons Learned
   
   
6. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
          
   • Motivation For Change
   • Teachers' Roles In A Coherent Professional Development Plan
   • Bridging Boundaries And Building Collaborations
   • Connecting Classroom And Careers
   • Creating Time For Professional Development
   • Lessons Learned
   
   
7. GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
          
   • The Counseling Component
   • Implementing The Plan
   • Challenges To Guidance And Counseling
   
   
8. THE POSTSECONDARY PARTNER
          
   • The Changing Role Of The Community College Partner
   • Curriculum Changes -- Articulation And More
   • Identifying And Following Students
   • Other Linkage Activities -- Beyond Articulation
   • Working With Business And Industry
   • Lessons Learned -- Overcoming Barriers
   
   
9. EVALUATION FOR PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT
          
   • Evaluation-Related Technical Assistance Activities
   • The Continuum Of Evaluation
   • The Status Of Implementation: Reflection On Process
   • Collecting Data: Formative And Summative
   • Early Innovators: Examples Of Evaluation Design And Student OutcomeS
   • Overcoming Barriers
   • Lessons Learned
   
   
10. FINAL REFLECTIONS
           
    • Our Idea
    • If It's About Learning, What Did We Learn?

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