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Touching Hearts, Touching Minds: Using Emotion-Based Messaging to Promote Healthful Behavior in the Massachusetts WIC Program
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Colchamiro, Rachel; Ghiringhelli, Kara; Hause, Judith – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
The "Touching Hearts, Touching Minds" initiative was funded through a 2003 United States Department of Agriculture Special Projects grant to revitalize nutrition education and services in the Massachusetts Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. The 30 nutrition education materials and…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Physical Activities, Nutrition, Counselor Client Relationship
Academic Achievement of Mexican American Students: The Edgewood School Plan.
Welch, Richard O. – 1977
A five-year bilingual, bicultural program, part of the Experimental Schools Program, employed by the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, was designed to enhance the affective characteristics of the predominantly Mexican American student population, to train teachers to avoid socioeconomic and cultural biases, and to improve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis
Experimental Schools Project, Edgewood Independent School District. Volume I: Final Summary Report.
Jones, Earl, Ed.; Davis, Peter B., Ed. – 1977
The Edgewood Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas), using a mini-system of one high school, one middle school, and four elementary schools, conducted an Experimental Schools Program from 1972-1977 to test a local decision making, long-term innovative program to effect substantial changes in the affective and cognitive characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development