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Crisman, Taylor L.; Acevedo-Polakovich, Ignacio D.; Al-Zoughbi, Lucas A.; Stacy, Sara T; Ogdie, Sarah E.; Obeid, Sam – Afterschool Matters, 2020
In many applied youth development settings, including out-of-school time (OST) programs, volunteers play essential roles (Brennan, 2005). In some, volunteers are integral to service delivery -- for example, serving as mentors. In others, volunteers help link youth-serving organizations or their participants with needed resources, assets, or…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Volunteers, Student Volunteers, Volunteer Training
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Bartholomew, Mitch; De Jong, David – NASSP Bulletin, 2017
Despite the successful implementation of the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework in many elementary schools, there is little evidence of successful implementation in high school settings. Several themes emerged from the interviews of nine secondary principals, including a lack of knowledge and training for successful implementation, the…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Principals, High Schools, Knowledge Level
Pharrams, Lorenza – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to identify if there was a relationship between student or administrator characteristics (Independent variables) and the application of various disciplinary actions (Dependent variables). This study examined student's gender, race, grade point average, number of credits, and disciplinary…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, High School Students
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Staples, Jeanine M. – Educational Action Research, 2008
This article describes the formation and enactment of a student and teacher-generated framework for re-authoring a troubling representation of Black masculinity in a popular culture narrative. This data-driven framework highlights the ways students and teacher provided a means for literacies to serve students' desire to re-author images and words…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, After School Programs, Reflective Teaching, Masculinity
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Goodman, Steven – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
This case study examines the learning, identity and language development experienced by "overage" 8th-grade students who have been left behind two or more years in their New York City middle school and are participating in an extended-day video documentary program. The students practise a range of literacy skills naturally embedded in…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
School-family partnerships (SFPs) have been the focus of research, policy, and practice efforts for several years. Increasing the interest in SFPs has been the finding that when schools and families cooperate closely, children benefit. The more supportive links there are between settings, the more potential there is for healthy development. Such…
Descriptors: Conferences, Politics of Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement