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Using Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports to Reduce School Suspensions
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Gage, Nicholas A.; Beahm, Lydia; Kaplan, Rachel; MacSuga-Gage, Ashley S.; Lee, Ahhyun – Beyond Behavior, 2020
The Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework is currently implemented in more than 25,000 schools across the globe. Its implementation has demonstrated positive impacts on a number of behavioral and academic outcomes. A growing evidence base has found that PBIS has been particularly effective at reducing both in- and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention
Institutional Ethnography: A Holistic Approach to Understanding Systems
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Wright, Ursula T.; Rocco, Tonette S. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2016
This paper introduces institutional ethnography (IE) as a useful and systematic process for examining organizations and work data through the lens of stakeholders, at different levels, and considering the different forces at play. Drawing from ethnomethodology, IE focuses on how everyday experience is socially organized. Ideological shifts have…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Holistic Approach, Institutional Research, Adult Vocational Education
Massachusetts Charter Public Schools: Best Practices Using Data to Improve Student Achievement in Springfield. White Paper No. 142
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Candal, Cara Stillings – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2016
Recent studies continue to shine light on high-performing charter schools. While Boston-area charter schools--a concentrated group of high-performers--garner more attention than others, many excellent schools outside of Boston have been quietly chipping away at the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students. One of these schools…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Best Practices, School Effectiveness
From Crisis to Success: Three Case Studies in Organizational Learning
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Mitki, Yoram; Herstein, Ram – Learning Organization, 2011
Purpose: Radical changes and increasing competition in the global economy and markets lead enterprises to change their business policy and activities. This process demands the creation of effective organizational learning mechanisms. This paper seeks to illustrate how three service organizations designed and utilized organizational learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Global Approach, Corporations
"Economists Who Think like Ecologists": Reframing Systems Thinking in Games for Learning
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DeVane, Ben; Durga, Shree; Squire, Kurt – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
Over the past several years, educators have been exploring the potential of immersive interactive simulations, or video games for education, finding that games can support the development of disciplinary knowledge, systemic thinking, the production of complex multimodal digital artifacts, and participation in affinity spaces or sites of collective…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Labor Needs, Leadership, Thinking Skills
The Better Beginnings, Better Futures Project: Findings from Grade 3 to Grade 9
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Peters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged