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Sakhavat Mammadov; Nancy B. Hertzog – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
School district administrators must address structural racism and inequitable access to advanced learning opportunities in their school districts. District administrators in one large district in the northwestern part of the United States sought research-based advice by asking the authors to provide the answer to the "million-dollar"…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Equal Education, Administrators, Academically Gifted
Scrutchin, Dorothy Felicia-Fay – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore middle school students' and teachers' perceptions of integrating social and emotional learning into curriculum. Researchers recognized the importance of delivering social and emotional learning skills in the classroom as the foundation for the formation of creating students who are caring…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Robinson, Gary; Leckning, Bernard; Midford, Richard; Harper, Helen; Silburn, Sven; Gannaway, Jess; Dolan, Kylie; Delphine, Tim; Hayes, Craig – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of development and the pilot implementation of a preventive life skills curriculum for Indigenous middle school students in a very remote community college in the West Arnhem region of North Australia. The curriculum integrates proven educational and psychological techniques with…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Indigenous Populations, Youth, Foreign Countries
Houston Independent School District, 2019
This report describes the Achieve 180 Program in Year 2. The 53 participating schools received Texas Education Agency campus accountability ratings of "Improvement Required" (IR), "Not Rated," or "Former Improvement Required" at the end of the 2017-2018 school year. The 2018-2019 Achieve 180 Program's centralized…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Improvement, Accountability
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Espelage, Dorothy L.; Rose, Chad A.; Polanin, Joshua R. – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
Results of a 3-year randomized clinical trial of Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention (SS-SSTP) Middle School Program on reducing bullying, physical aggression, and peer victimization among students with disabilities are presented. Teachers implemented 41 lessons of a sixth- to eighth-grade curriculum that focused on social-emotional…
Descriptors: Bullying, Middle School Students, Disabilities, Victims
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Peterson, Jean Sunde; Lorimer, Michelle R. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2011
A 5-year longitudinal study of the implementation of an affective curriculum in a school for gifted children, in the form of weekly development-oriented, teacher-led small-group discussions for all students in Grades 5 through 8, found that initial resistance changed to receptivity and gains over time. Analysis of Likert-type responses and brief…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Gifted, Student Reaction, Longitudinal Studies
Boboc, Marius; Nordgren, R. D. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2010
Practical and engaging, this book contains 21 case studies that help students apply curriculum theory to classroom reality. Each case is authored by an in-service teacher, reflecting on ways to improve instruction by making changes to various aspects of the curriculum. These real-life examples investigate up-to-date curricular issues ranging from…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, School Activities, Curriculum Implementation