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McLeod, Bryce D.; Sutherland, Kevin S.; Conroy, Maureen A.; Lyon, Aaron R.; Chapman, Jason E.; Granger, Kristen L.; Saldana, Lisa – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2023
Evidence-based programs (EBPs) delivered in elementary schools show great promise in reducing risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBDs). However, efforts to sustain EBPs in school face barriers. Improving EBP sustainment thus represents a priority, but little research exists to inform the development of sustainment strategies. To address…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Elementary School Students
Wendt, Staci; Rice, John; Nakamoto, Jonathan – WestEd, 2019
Spatial-Temporal Math (ST Math) is game-based, instructional software for K-12 students created by the MIND Research Institute (MIND). ST Math is integrated into classroom instruction, but can also be used in a computer lab or at home. The ST Math software games begin without language and symbol abstractions by posing math programs as purely…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Software
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Kier, Meredith; Clark, Kelley – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
When the world abruptly halted in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, stakeholders of K-12 education sought ways to directly serve teachers, parents, and children socially, emotionally, and academically "at a distance." Elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) immediately experienced the direct and indirect impacts of the crisis as they were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Equal Education, Elementary School Students, Crisis Management
Orme, Lindsay Tremoulis – ProQuest LLC, 2016
School wellness policy is a requirement for all public schools within the United States participating in the National School Lunch Program, under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The legislation provides a set of content requirements for local school districts to use in creating their policy. The legislation recognizes the unique needs…
Descriptors: Females, Student Attitudes, Wellness, Correlation
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Goodman-Scott, Emily; Doyle, Beth; Brott, Pamelia – Professional School Counseling, 2013
A trio of researchers presents a case study from a practical, participatory action research project to demonstrate how one school district implemented a school-wide bullying prevention initiative for all elementary schools based on Bully Prevention in Positive Behavior Support (BP-PBS). The purpose of this manuscript is to discuss the process of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Case Studies, Action Research
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Cornell, Dewey G.; Allen, Korrie; Fan, Xitao – School Psychology Review, 2012
This randomized controlled study examined disciplinary outcomes for 201 students who made threats of violence at school. The students attended 40 schools randomly assigned to use the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines or follow a business-as-usual disciplinary approach in a control group. Logistic regression analyses found, after…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Guidelines, Discipline, Violence
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Prudencio, Karina – Learning Languages, 2012
The author is a Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) Spanish teacher and works with students from K-6 at Little Run Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia. FLES is a program that had been implemented in her school district six years ago. Finding ways to motivate students to use and practice the foreign language outside the classroom is…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Educational Facilities, Time Factors (Learning), Assignments
Pennycuff, Lisa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation status of Response to Intervention (RtI) in the elementary schools (N = 35) in one urban school district in Virginia. The relationship between the implementation of the academic components of RtI, collective efficacy, parents' trust in schools, the number of referrals for special…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Program Effectiveness, Urban Schools, School Safety
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Crozier, Mary; Rokutani, Laurie; Russett, Jill L.; Godwin, Emilie; Banks, George E. – School Community Journal, 2010
Strong school and family ties have long shown success in influencing positive child development and lasting academic success. While a multitude of programs exist to help facilitate the school-family connection, one program in particular, Families and Schools Together, or FAST, stands out as an effective prevention program that is suitable for a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Prevention, Family Programs, Metropolitan Areas
Arrington, Alpheus, Jr. – 1989
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a middle school program in King and Queen County in Virginia's Middle Peninsula designed to improve the achievement of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students whose achievement scores were consistently lower than national and state averages. A literature review and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Continuity, Elementary School Students