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Jeanette Louise Randall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Discovery City Schools, located in the southern United States, served approximately 8,168 public school students in 15 individual schools during the 2022--2023 school year. After a districtwide consolidation in 2019, Triumph Middle School (TMS) was established as the only middle school in the district and served 1,121 seventh- and eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Nicole Emidy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated the impact of implementing School responder model (SRM) programs on addressing mental and behavioral health needs to reduce problem behavior and prevent the school-to-prison pipeline. While successful school-based mental health interventions exist, the effectiveness of SRM programs in countering the school-to-prison…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Students, Public Schools, Models
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Georgia Heyward – Grantee Submission, 2024
Schools have long partnered with local organizations to support access to essential services like food, housing, or mental and physical health. Schools can build on wrap-around school models by helping students and families intentionally cultivate community relationships, skills, and knowledge, thus putting students on a path toward long-term…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, School Health Services, Models, Skill Development
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Mogale, Makobo Lydia; Modipane, Mpho Calphonia – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Globally, policy implementation in the education system has been found to be a challenging area of development. The South African education system is no exception to the ineffective implementation of policies. For example, in South Africa, the progression policy was introduced by the Department of Education in 2013 for the purpose of minimising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Vanessa Scherman; Brigitte Smit – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
The issue of quality education is a critical topic of discussion, for South Africa facing the challenge of implementation amid a plethora of progressive policies. The purpose of the research reported here is to describe the procedures undertaken to explore the feasibility of implementing a monitoring system in the South African context. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Cultural Context, Information Systems
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Thibaut, Patricia; Carvalho, Lucila – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
Young people are increasingly connected in a digital and globalized world, but technology-mediated interactions alone do not necessarily lead to a culture of meaningful participation and meaning making processes. Students from disadvantaged contexts are especially vulnerable to this. Drawing on the "Activity-Centred Analysis and Design"…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Cultural Capital, Case Studies, High School Students
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Rubenstein, Eric D.; Thoron, Andrew C. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2015
SAE programs were designed as an integral component in SBAE. However, participation has continued to decline. This qualitative study examined exemplary SAE programs in rural SBAE to discover factors that were working in SAE development and implementation. Through focus groups, individual and informal interviews, and observations, two themes that…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Rural Education, Program Development, Program Implementation
Fehrer, Kendra; Leos-Urbel, Jacob; Messner, Erica; Riley, Nicole – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2016
Since 2014, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has partnered with the Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University (Gardner Center) to support OUSD's efforts to assess, enhance, and scale their community schools work. They began by working with the district to develop a System Strategy Map to articulate the district's…
Descriptors: Community Schools, School Districts, Program Implementation, Models
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Smith, Andrew Philip – Pastoral Care in Education, 2012
A perception that some boys are performing poorly both socially and academically is evident in the research literature. This perception has been linked to broader concerns around the transition of boys to manhood. Schools are increasingly paying attention to their role in this transition. This paper discusses the implementation of a rites of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement