School communities need to reconceptualize the means by which they go about the task of educating children. By and large, schools and classrooms have retained the same basic structures for the past 50 years or more. Schools operate on a model designed for different times and different purposes - one related to the needs of an industrial society. A major criticism of schools is that they are too formalistic and rigid to respond to the exponential growth of knowledge in the world around them. Nowhere is the need for change more evident than in school science, where structures and procedures reinforce a positivist, rather than a constructivist, view of teaching and learning.
Every school district has teachers who seem to have the magic touch for obtaining grants.
Becoming a successful proposal writer requires logical thinking, patience, creativity, and compliance with a few basic principles of grantsmanship. This article provides some basic principles of writing winning proposals. Can Promote the Effective use of Community Resources by Lawrence B. Flick, Donald Fekete, Bruce H. Hawkins, and Richard H. Stone Building business, industry, and educational partnerships is becoming an important avenue of response by school districts confronting educational reform in the face of shrinking budgets. As members of this Consortium, the authors formed a task force to examine teacher use of community resources to provide background for program development. The purpose of this paper is to report the results of the study and the implications they have for the ongoing design of a program for sharing community expertise with schools especially in the areas of math, science, and technology education.