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ED 109 060 DOCUMENT RESUME 95 SP 009 306 AUTHOR Soper, Dorothy TITLE Pathways to, Success; A Resource Manual for the Dissetinaiion of Successful Educational Programs. INSTITUTION New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. SPONS AGENCY Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Sep 74 NOTE 37p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 HC-$1.95 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS *Educational Innovation; *Educational Programs; Educational Trends; *Information Dissemination; Information Services IDENTIFIERS '*New Jersey ABSTRACT This manual is designed to describe an isseminate information about innovative New Jersey educational programs, that , have been validated by the standards and guidelines of the United States Office of Education as successful, cost effective, and exportable. Chapter 1, contains an overview of the development process for educational programs and discusses the development and dissemination capabilities which the New Jersey State Office of -Program Development provides to local school districts. Topics in this section include the following: (a) basic research, development, and dissemination model; (b) the'development of innovative educational programs; and (c) the dissemination of successful education programs. Chapter 2 concentrates on basic dissemination procedures. Several dissemination formats are described, and suggestions for selecting a dissemination format are discussed. Chapter 3 focuses on a dissemination program in action. This section reviews (a) awareness level activities; (b) involvement level activities; (c) commitment level activities; (d) materials; and (e) dissemination responsibilities. Apprendixes include the following: (a) the validation procedure; (b)' a list of dissemination resource materials available from the Office of Program Development; (c) a list New Jersey educational programs; and (d) the mailing list for information regarding the New Jersey demonstration sites of successful educational programi. (JS) *********************************************************************** "Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished, * , materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * ***********************************************************************
