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Amber Wynn – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
State law (Revised Code of Washington [RCW] 28A.320.130) requires the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to annually report to the Legislature the number of incidents in violation of RCW 9.41.280, which involves the possession of weapons on school premises, transportation systems, or in areas of facilities while being used…
Descriptors: Schools, Weapons, Crime, Public Schools
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Shurtz, Logan; Schwartz, Chloe; DiStefano, Charlotte; McPartland, James C.; Levin, April R.; Dawson, Geraldine; Kleinhans, Natalia M.; Faja, Susan; Webb, Sara J.; Shic, Frederick; Naples, Adam J.; Seow, Helen; Bernier, Raphael A.; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Sugar, Catherine A.; Dziura, James; Senturk, Damla; Santhosh, Megha; Jeste, Shafali S. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorder are prescribed various medications to address behavior and mood. In clinical trials, individuals taking concomitant psychotropic medications often are excluded to maintain homogeneity and prevent contamination of clinical endpoints. However, this choice may compromise the representativeness of the sample. In…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Drug Therapy, Incidence, Child Behavior
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Peng Peng; Jason Chow; Ni Yan; Yuting Liu – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Based on 1,364 children across Grades 1, 3, and 5, the present study explored the mutualism of (externalizing and internalizing) behavioral problems and language, and whether social skills explained such mutualism. The random intercept cross-lagged panel models were conducted to control for between-person level variance and to explore mutualism of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5
Bledsoe, Michele T. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Managing student misbehavior at school is a reality today's school staff must be prepared for. Researchers and practitioners have been implementing a variety of strategies to support students with challenging behavior; however, the opportunity gap for specific students continues to exist. The number of students who are excluded, suspended, or…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Novices, Administrators, Educational Legislation
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McQuaid, Goldie A.; Pelphrey, Kevin A.; Bookheimer, Susan Y.; Dapretto, Mirella; Webb, Sara J.; Bernier, Raphael A.; McPartland, James C.; Van Horn, John D.; Wallace, Gregory L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Adaptive functioning, or the suite of skills essential for real-world, day-to-day functioning, includes daily living, communication, and socialization abilities. Even in the absence of co-occurring intellectual disability (IQ < 70), difficulties in adaptive functioning are prominent in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Further, ASD individuals…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intelligence Quotient, Gender Differences
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Schindler, Holly S.; Fisher, Phillip A.; Ola, Cindy; Campbell, Cory J. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Finding: Traditional fathering programs have missed an opportunity to reflect the unique family patterns and service needs of Hispanic and Latino fathers. In addition, family engagement strategies in early childhood programs have typically focused on mothers. The aim of this study was to adapt, implement, and evaluate a 6-week video…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Coaching (Performance), Comparative Analysis, Fathers
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Jones, Patrick; Derby, K. Mark; Engler, Joseph R.; Trotter, Thomas – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2019
This study was designed to evaluate the instruction of children with autism spectrum disorder as they were taught basic hockey skills. Novice instructors with no hockey background but a willingness to instruct the athletes completed skill training. The study was conducted across three phases: baseline where the coaches received no instruction on…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Novices, Team Sports, Athletes
Fleming, Christopher M.; Nurius, Paula S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
A consequence of a growing incarceration rate is that an increasing number of children face having an incarcerated household member, a known contributor to diverse lifelong behavioral health risks such as substance use and mental health impairment. Few studies have explored how household incarceration uniquely contributes to these subsequent…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems
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Cook, Clayton R.; Low, Sabina; Buntain-Ricklefs, Joanne; Whitaker, Kelly; Pullmann, Michael D.; Lally, Jaclyn – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Research has consistently linked social-emotional learning to important educational and life outcomes. Early elementary represents an opportune developmental period to proactively support children to acquire social-emotional skills that enable academic success. Using data from a large scale randomized controlled trial, the purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Outcomes of Education, Randomized Controlled Trials, Kindergarten
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Blodgett, Christopher; Lanigan, Jane D. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
We explored the feasibility of using school personnel as reporters to examine the relationship between the level of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) exposure in a nonclinical sample of public elementary schoolchildren and academic risk. We selected a random sample of 2,101 children from kindergarten through 6th grade classroom rosters at 10…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Success, At Risk Students, Regression (Statistics)
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Davison, Linnea; Warwick, Haven; Campbell, Kaitlyn; Gartstein, Maria A. – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2019
An extensive literature links language problems with behavioral difficulties and academic underachievement. Although less extensive, emerging literature suggests that temperament, Positive Affectivity (PA) in particular, contributes to language development. Thus, the present study was focused on PA related temperament dimensions in infancy as…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Behavior Problems, Underachievement
Lee Collyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2022
The 2022 Legislature directed the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to create an advisory workgroup with specific participants to report back on topics related to student isolation and seclusion. This legislative report provides a background on the workgroup, history of isolation and restraint, current practices in the state of…
Descriptors: Discipline, Punishment, Behavior Modification, Timeout
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2021
Second Substitute Senate Bill 5903 (2019) directed the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to contract with an organization providing coaching services to early achievers program participants, i.e., Child Care Aware of Washington (CCA WA), to provide statewide Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMH-C) to Early…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers
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Low, Sabina; Smolkowski, Keith; Cook, Clayton; Desfosses, Danielle – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This study examined the impact of a commonly adopted elementary universal social-emotional learning program, Second Step, on student social-emotional and academic outcomes following 2 years of implementation. The cluster-randomized wait-list control trial included 61 schools, 321 teachers, and 8,941 early elementary students across 2 states, with…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Duchesneau, Nancy – Education Trust, 2020
The majority of public schools and districts in the U.S. report they are working to support the social and emotional learning of students. But in too many places, the approach is to focus narrowly on changing student behavior rather than implementing practices that build relationships and create learning environments that support positive social…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Social Development
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