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Christian Mazimpaka; Rashmi Paudel; Beverly Heinze-Lacey; Patricia A. Elliott – Journal of School Nursing, 2025
This scoping review explores leadership training opportunities for school nurses. The review was conducted to inform the development of a new leadership training program for school nurses in Massachusetts. A search conducted across four databases (PubMed, CINAHL, ERIC, and Web of Science) yielded four articles meeting the search criteria published…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Leadership Training, Program Evaluation, Competence
Eileen McAnneny; Andrew Hunter, Contributor – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2025
The purpose of this report is to provide readers with a comparative analysis of the Massachusetts workforce "system" structures and performance reporting processes compared to other states. Though the federal workforce development system is often examined in its entirety and individual state systems are at times examined independently,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Comparative Analysis, Labor Market, Federal Regulation
Tiffany Wu; Christina Weiland – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Chronic absenteeism is a critical issue that has been linked to many adverse student outcomes. The current study focuses on improving a key system already in place in many school districts--early warning systems (EWSs)--in order to decrease chronic absenteeism in students' earliest schooling years. Using a demographically diverse population of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Comb, Meagan; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Jin, Zeyu; Theobald, Roddy – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
States are responsible for evaluating teacher preparation programs (TPPs) through program reviews. We use data from Massachusetts to describe the first analysis of program review ratings and their relationship to in-service outcomes for TPP graduates. When comparisons are made across all schools and districts in the state, a TPP's review scores…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, State Action
Council on Social Work Education, 2025
The Policy Practice in Field Initiative was created to seed innovation and develop new models for an integrated approach to enhance the policy skill set of all social work students regardless of specialization. Funds provided to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) are regranted to schools and programs of social work for field placement and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Models, Field Experience Programs
Kerry G. Hofer; Wendy Wei – Abt Associates, 2023
The Massachusetts Early Childhood Support Organization (ECSO) initiative seeks to improve the quality of early education programs (EEPs) by supporting leaders to strengthen their organizational climate, provide job-embedded professional learning opportunities for educators, support the use of instructional curriculum and child assessments in their…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Feinberg, A. B.; Meyer, K. A.; Everett, S.; Robbie, K.; Pierce, A.; Shor, R.; Ricotta, A.; Fischer, S. – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2021
The PBIS Framework has demonstrated effectiveness in supporting schools in improving various prosocial outcomes including improved social, emotional, and behavioral skills; increased academic outcomes and attendance; decreased exclusionary discipline (e.g., office referrals, suspensions); and reduced reports of bullying and substance abuse. In…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Ritz, Catherine; Sherf, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This large-scale study used a survey to collect data on K-12 world language program leadership and instructional practices in Massachusetts public schools, investigating associations between the presence of a program leader or primary evaluator who is a world language specialist and instructional practices, curriculum, and assessment. The study…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Kindergarten
Morris, Kelsey; Feinberg, Adam – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2022
Prioritizing social, emotional, and behavioral supports is essential for student success. By establishing systems to support students' social (how they interact), emotional (how they feel), and behavioral (how they act) needs and growth, educators and leaders can ensure that all students have full access to instruction and the essential skills for…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Data Collection, Positive Behavior Supports, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Housman, Donna K.; Cabral, Howard; Aniskovich, Katsiaryna; Denham, Susanne A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Research has shown that the first few years of a child's life are critical for developing executive functioning and emotional regulatory skills. This study aimed to evaluate how begin to ECSEL (Emotional, Cognitive and Social Early Learning), an intervention designed to promote young children's emotional competence, influenced children's…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Intervention, Preschool Children
Cochran-Smith, Marilyn; Reagan, Emilie Mitescu – Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Since the early 2000s, accountability and evaluation have been regarded by policymakers as key mechanisms for "fixing" teacher education and by many teacher education leaders as vehicles for elevating the status of the profession and uniting a fragmented field. Although educational inequity has been an enduring and endemic problem during…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Accountability
Howland, Jonathan; Hackman, Holly; Taylor, Alyssa; Brown, Linda; Gapinski, Mary Ann; Mills, Julie Kautz; Thornton, Kathleen – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
In 2015, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health conducted focus groups with school nurses (SNs) and athletic trainers (ATs) from Massachusetts middle and high schools to assess implementation of legislated regulations relative to the management of students' head injuries incurred during extracurricular sports. Four tape-recorded focus…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, State Regulation, Athletes
Wright, Julie A.; Whiteley, Jessica A.; Watson, Bonnie L.; Sheinfeld Gorin, Sherri N.; Hayman, Laura L. – Health Education Research, 2018
Recommendations for the prevention of childhood obesity encourage providers to counsel parents and their children on healthy diet and activity behaviors. This study evaluated the feasibility of a theory-based, tailored communication intervention for obesity prevention ("Team Up for Health") delivered during a well-child visit. A…
Descriptors: Prevention, Child Health, Obesity, Intervention
Goodson, Barbara; Checkoway, Amy; Yudron, Monica; Acevedo, Maria – Abt Associates, 2018
The Year 2 Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) implementation study focuses on the second year of supports and outcomes for teachers, classroom quality, and supports for families. Overall, compared to its first year of implementation, the PEG programs in Year 2 (which was the 2016-17 school year) appear to have made progress towards delivering the key…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grants, Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement
Sarah Lyn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Metropolitan Council for Education Opportunity (METCO) has operated in the Boston and Springfield areas since 1966 and was developed as a means to fuel racial integration and provide students with greater educational opportunities. Since its existence, few studies have examined the social and emotional experiences of students participating in…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Racial Integration, Program Evaluation, Emotional Experience