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Quin-Anne Hinrichs; Chelsea R. Johnston; Laura Feuerborn; Ashli Tyre – Beyond Behavior, 2025
Implementation of a culturally responsive positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) framework is associated with positive outcomes for secondary students when implemented schoolwide. Yet, educators often report more implementation challenges in secondary school as compared to elementary school settings. Difficulties obtaining student…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Positive Behavior Supports, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Dieker, Lisa A.; Butler, Malcolm B.; Ortiz, Enrique; Gao, Su – Education Sciences, 2021
The importance of partnerships is critical in educational arenas, but information on how partnerships form with the involvement of corporations, districts, and universities working in harmony is limited in the current literature. The teacher preparation program described in this paper is a "built-to-last" partnership model with over 650…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, College School Cooperation
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Sierra, Kristin – Knowledge Quest, 2017
The author has always loved libraries. She has has always loved books and the experience of learning. Her idea of the best kind of library has changed over the years. Encouraging reading is just a part of what the 21st-century school library does. As a fledgling school librarian just starting to learn how to fly, the author wanted to create a nest…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, School Libraries, Library Services, Librarians
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Hatchimonji, Danielle R.; Linsky, Arielle V.; Elias, Maurice J. – Education, 2017
In urban schools overwhelmed by increasing demands to raise test scores, exclusive focus on increasing academic competencies has proven ineffective. School-wide, comprehensive social-emotional and character development (SECD), focused on the cultivation of Noble Purpose, provides an alternative pathway toward life, college, and career success. We…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Educational Change, Values Education
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Beddoes, Zack; Castelli, Darla M. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2017
Physical activity declines among children in their tweens and teens. To address physical inactivity as a health risk, national organizations are endorsing the implementation of comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs). The purpose of this article is to describe the history of school-coordinated approaches to addressing health…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Physical Education
Southeast Comprehensive Center, 2015
A state education agency (SEA) served by the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) has requested information regarding state-developed (also referred to as state-determined) alternative models for schools receiving School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds. The state-determined school improvement model (one of three new models) offers an alternative to…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Models
Villavicencio, Adriana; Siman, Nina; Lafayette, Camille; Kang, David – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2016
In 2011, with support from a federal Investing in Innovation grant, the NYC Department of Education launched Innovate NYC Schools. The initiative was designed to address two, related challenges to effectively integrating education technology (ed-tech) into classrooms: First, procurement of ed-tech tools is often hampered by a disconnect between…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Beitz, Linda M.; Mitchiner, Melinda; Sailor, Wayne; Nelson, Loui Lord – National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center, 2016
This blueprint provides an overview of the technical assistance (TA) practices and collaborative learning structures that support state education agencies (SEAs) in whole system implementation of Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation (SWIFT) Domains and Features, and in the development of state-level infrastructure hospitable to…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Equal Education, Inclusion, Educational Change
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Bunnell, Tristan – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) was first created in 1980. This article charts its historical origins and growth. It offers a critical overview of the operation of the MYP revealing both its geographical distribution disparities and the current picture in terms of external moderation of student work. There are…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational History, Criticism
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Givvin, Karen B.; Santagata, Rossella – Professional Development in Education, 2011
The focus of this paper is on detailing the decisions made when we created, implemented and studied a mathematics professional development (PD) program in low-performing, urban schools. Our program held many characteristics espoused by researchers as critical for effectiveness. We begin by reviewing the characteristics of quality PD programs that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Grade 6
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Lawrence, Deborah A.; Mancuso, Tina A. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2012
Multiple initiatives have been launched to try to widen the pipeline for women to enter engineering careers, including reviews of gender differences in enrollment in technology and pre-engineering courses from middle school through doctoral degrees. National agencies have also studied some of the social and cultural forces at play with regard to…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Engineering Education, Career Development
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2010
The Day of Silence is the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. From the first-ever Day of Silence at the University of Virginia in 1996, to the organizing efforts in over 8,000 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities across…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Prewett, Sara; Mellard, Daryl; Lieske-Lupo, Jessica – National Center on Response to Intervention, 2011
Planning, developing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change, such as Response to Intervention (RTI), is a complex endeavor. This brief is designed to give practitioners guidance based on the implementation activities of middle school practitioners across the country. The authors recognize that secondary schools must consider many…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Response to Intervention, Credits, Organizational Change
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Hoffman, Jessica A.; Morris, Vivien; Cook, John – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The Boston Middle School Corner Store Initiative (CSI) brought together schools, businesses, and community partners to develop, implement, and evaluate a multicomponent pilot program designed to promote healthier beverage purchasing at corner stores among 3,500 middle school students living in Boston, Massachusetts. Healthy drinks were defined for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Pilot Projects, Purchasing
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Schaefer, Mary Beth; Rivera, Lourdes M.; Ophals, Elizabeth – Middle School Journal (J3), 2010
The authors describe the development and implementation of the Career Institute, a program designed to provide opportunities for young adolescents to explore their interests and abilities in relation to their current educational experiences and future college and career goals. They share details about how the school-wide career development program…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Program Development, Educational Experience, Career Development
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