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Roth, Kate; Dabrowski, Joan – Reading Teacher, 2014
Interactive writing is an instructional practice widely considered effective and most appropriate for emergent writers. This article asserts that it is a valuable method for more fluent writers in grades 2-5. It outlines the basic lesson sequence and proposes four key shifts to adapt interactive writing for older, more fluent writers: 1) The…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Interaction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Muehlenkamp, Jennifer J.; Kerr, Patrick L. – Prevention Researcher, 2010
The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior is complex and often difficult to untangle. While most self-injurers never exhibit suicidality, there is evidence of a correlation between suicidality and NSSI, and a clear overlap of risk between the two behaviors. Therefore, it is important to both prevention and…
Descriptors: Injuries, Suicide, Self Destructive Behavior, Correlation
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Krogh, Carmen M. E. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2011
This article explores the loss of social justice reported by individuals living in the environs of industrial wind turbines (IWTs). References indicate that some individuals residing in proximity to IWT facilities experience adverse health effects. These adverse health effects are severe enough that some families have abandoned their homes.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Prevention, Intention, Energy
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Cha, Christine B.; Nock, Matthew K. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Emotional intelligence is found to be a protective factor for suicidal behavior after examining the relations between childhood sexual abuse and suicidal ideation and attempts to emotional intelligence. Childhood sexual abuse is found to be a strong predictive of the results.
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Sexual Abuse, Suicide, Children
Crafton, Linda K., Ed.; Johnson, Nancy J., Ed. – National Council of Teachers of English, 2008
This issue of "School Talk" brings together the ideas of purposefulness and intertextuality together in a teaching practice called intentional intertextual inquiry. "Making Inquiry Intentional and Intertextual" (Karen Smith, Sarah Diaz, and Silvia Edgerton) discusses the framework that combines inquiry-based learning and intertextuality within…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Learning Experience, Inquiry, Intention
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Joiner, Thomas; Kalafat, John; Draper, John; Stokes, Heather; Knudson, Marshall; Berman, Alan L.; McKeon, Richard – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline was launched in January 2005. Lifeline, supported by a federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, consists of a network of more than 120 crisis centers located in communities across the country that are committed to suicide prevention. Lifeline's Certification and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Prevention, Mental Health Programs, Suicide