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Laura J. Morizio; Amy L. Cook; Melissa A. Collier-Meek; Gianna M. Famolare; Lindsay M. Fallon; Stacy L. Bender – School Psychology Review, 2024
Creating Compassion is an empathy-focused creative arts curriculum designed to provide short-term, low-cost, high-quality social-emotional learning (SEL) to communities and settings with limited resources. The present study sought to determine whether Creating Compassion was effective for increasing displays of prosocial behaviors and broad SEL…
Descriptors: Empathy, Altruism, Prosocial Behavior, Social Emotional Learning
Eva Marie McCleary – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The increase in diagnoses of autism for elementary aged students paired with schools increasingly moving towards inclusive classroom models creates a challenge for general education teachers. This quantitative quasi-experimental study was designed to investigate the efficacy of an after school, explicit social skills intervention, and the impact…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
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Jayman, Michelle; Ohl, Maddie; Fox, Pauline – Psychology of Education Review, 2019
Background: Children's and young people's emotional wellbeing is in decline and models of good practice are needed to help schools address the needs of vulnerable pupils. Effectiveness studies have provided empirical evidence for school-based socio-emotional interventions but few examine process issues to explain procedures and mechanisms…
Descriptors: Student Welfare, Secondary School Students, Behavior Change, Mental Health
Afterschool Alliance, 2020
When youth are placed in detention facilities, their education, ties to society, and lives are disrupted. Yet any involvement with the justice system -- regardless of incarceration -- can have implications for one's future earning potential and career trajectory, limiting access to educational opportunities, career fields, and available supports.…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Prevention, Delinquency, After School Programs
Afterschool Alliance, 2020
In the United States, involvement with the juvenile justice system can have a long-lasting negative impact on one's life. Young people who are placed in detention facilities are removed from their homes, their families, and their communities. Their education, their ties to society, and their lives are disrupted. Involvement with the justice system…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Prevention, Delinquency, After School Programs
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Fettig, Angel; Cook, Amy L.; Morizio, Laura; Gould, Kaitlin; Brodsky, Lauren – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
As educators begin to understand the need for a social-emotional learning curriculum for young students, finding opportunities to implement a curriculum that supports students' social-emotional development is important. Research supports that using shared reading opportunities that are common in young students' in-school and out-of-school routines…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes
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Mampane, M. R. – Perspectives in Education, 2017
This study seeks to describe the socio-educational afterschool intervention programme run by a drop-in centre to fight poverty, strengthen and build resilience in families and school microsystems. Indigenous psychology is used as a theoretical lens to understand the school, family and community response to contextual challenges and how resilience…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), After School Programs, After School Education, Intervention
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Gengoux, Grace W. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2015
This study examined whether brief priming sessions (i.e., previewing activities with an adult ahead of time) would increase the rate of initiations made by children with autism to peers in inclusive settings. A multiple baseline across participants design assessed changes in rate of initiations, as well as statements reflecting target child…
Descriptors: Priming, Autism, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Relationship
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2019
The Title I, Part D (Part D) Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk under the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act," allocate funds to states and school districts to improve educational services for these youth.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Prevention
Read, Nicholas; Loeffler-Cobia, Jennifer; Sonnenfeld, Kathy; Diffenderffer, Anne; Ahonen, Pirkko – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2019
To address the education needs of these children and youth, the Title I, Part D Neglected or Delinquent Program authorizes two programs 1 that provide grants to states to enable them to award subgrants to state agencies (SAs) (Subpart 1) and local education agencies (LEAs) (i.e., school districts) (Subpart 2) that operate or allocate funds to…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Prevention
Read, Nicholas; Loeffler-Cobia, Jennifer; Sonnenfeld, Kathy; Diffenderffer, Anne; Ahonen, Pirkko – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2019
Volume 2 of "Promoting Education and Transition Success for Neglected and Delinquent Youth: An Evaluation of the Title I, Part D Program" consists of three appendices to the main report: (1) Data Collection Technical Appendix (State and Local Agency Surveys, Case Studies, Disclosure Review); (2) Data Collection Instruments (Part D…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Prevention
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Ohl, Madeleine; Fox, Pauline; Mitchell, Kathryn – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: Development of socio-emotional competencies is key to children's successful social interaction at home and at school. Aims: This study examines the efficacy of a UK primary school-based intervention, the Pyramid project, in strengthening children's socio-emotional competencies. Sample: Participants were 385 children from seven schools…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence, Foreign Countries
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Cottone, Elizabeth; Chen, Wei-Bing; Brock, Laura – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Building on the empirical work of the previous two studies, this paper describes the development of the Minds In Motion curriculum (MIM), as well as the setting and circumstances of a randomized controlled trial conducted to evaluate this intervention. Throughout this paper the authors emphasize the benefits and challenges of assembling an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation, After School Programs, Social Development
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Graham, Sandra; Taylor, April; Hudley, Cynthia – Urban Education, 2015
A 12-week, 32-lesson afterschool intervention was conducted with third-to fifth-grade urban African American boys classified as aggressive. Grounded in attribution theory and organized around the construct of perceived responsibility in self and others, the intervention focused on increasing both social skills and academic motivation. Participants…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Aggression, Intervention
Gamoran, Adam; Turley, Ruth N. Lopez; Turner, Alyn; Fish, Rachel – Online Submission, 2012
Disadvantages faced by Hispanic children in the U.S., compared to non-Hispanic Whites, have been widely reported. Economic differences account for some of the gaps, but the social isolation of Hispanic families also serves as a barrier to children's success. Whereas Hispanic families tend to have strong kinship networks, their social ties often do…
Descriptors: After School Programs, School Activities, Whites, Social Capital
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