The Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration (GSICE) program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), offers structured training and hands-on experience through internships for a broad range of PhD-level careers. The GSICE program model was successfully replicated at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Here, we…

Specialized secondary schools in the United States focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) are becoming commonplace in the United States. Such schools are generally referred to by U.S. teachers as Academies. In a purposeful effort to provide a resource to educators building new STEM Academies, this study provides both a…

The federal government increasingly expects child welfare systems to be more responsive to the needs of their local populations, connect strategies to results, and use continuous quality improvement (CQI) to accomplish these goals. A method for improving decision making, CQI relies on an inflow of high-quality data, up-to-date research evidence,…

"Foundations for Critical Thinking" explores the landscape of critical-thinking skill development and pedagogy through foundational chapters and institutional case studies involving a range of students in diverse settings. By establishing a link between active learning and improved critical thinking, this resource encourages all higher…

This brief presents a third party, external perspective on the Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI), highlighting some of the contributions of the initiative over the last ten years. AWI is a program that seeks to develop a skilled local STEM workforce to meet the needs of Hawai'i's growing high-tech industry. It began as an internship program…

Military children encounter unique stressors that can affect their social and emotional well-being. These challenges can serve as a risk to the military child's successful academic performance. This study fills a much-needed research gap by examining the training and implementation of a public school-based intervention, Families OverComing Under…

Describes the curriculum and learning objectives at Academy X, a leadership and humanities school for 11th- and 12th-grade students at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, the primary focus of which is a multiweek student internship divided into four components: the meaningful project, the essential question, the onsite…

DESCRIBED IS THE USE OF MICRO-TEACHING IN THE STANFORD TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM. SECTION 1 BRIEFLY INTRODUCES AND PROVIDES A SCHEDULE FOR THE 1967 MICRO-TEACHING CLINIC. SECTIONS 2 AND 3 PROVIDE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 1965 AND 1966 SUMMER MICRO-TEACHING CLINICS RESPECTIVELY. INCLUDED ARE DISCUSSIONS OF (1) BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MICRO-TEACHING,…