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Download full textHernandez, Jimmy; Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2021
The Waterford Institute recognizes that nearly half of the country's 4-years-olds face socioeconomic barriers that keep them from early education. Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by Waterford to prepare young children for school entry and future…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
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Direct linkEaton, Jacqueline – Educational Gerontology, 2022
The arts offer a cost effective and appealing approach to healthy aging. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the development and implementation of three creative aging pilot programs led by professional teaching artists in multipurpose senior centers. The process of recruitment focused on professional teaching artists, senior center…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Community Centers, Aging (Individuals), Program Development
Hernandez, Jimmy; Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2020
The Waterford Institute recognizes that nearly half of the country's 4-years-olds face socioeconomic barriers that keep them from early education. Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by Waterford to prepare young children for school entry and future…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Providing instruction in multiple languages has the potential to simultaneously help both native English speakers and English learners to develop language proficiency. "Dual language programs" can help native English speakers develop proficiency in a second language and English learners develop proficiency in both their native language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Language Usage
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Providing instruction in multiple languages has the potential to simultaneously help both native English speakers and English learners to develop language proficiency. "Dual language programs" can help native English speakers develop proficiency in a second language and English learners develop proficiency in both their native language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Language Usage
Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin; Norman, Patty – Utah State Board of Education, 2019
Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by the Waterford Institute to prepare young children for school entry and future academic success. The Evaluation and Training Institute (ETI), has prepared this report for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Grade 1
Jones, Dennis P. – National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2016
This is the third paper on the topic of outcomes-based funding written by Dennis Jones for Complete College America. The first paper, "Performance Funding: From Idea to Action" (ED535356), proposed a set of design and implementation principles to help states develop and implement their own outcomes-based funding models. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness, Models
Young, Sarah; Suddreth, Diana; Nielsen, Darin; Norman, Patty – Utah State Board of Education, 2018
Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by the Waterford Institute to prepare young children for school entry and future academic success. The Evaluation and Training Institute (ETI), has prepared this report for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Grade 1
Krystine A. Jolstead; Paul Caldarella; Blake D. Hansen; Byran B. Korth; Leslie Williams; Debra M. Kamps – Grantee Submission, 2017
Challenging behavior in preschool is a serious concern for teachers. Positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) has been shown to be effective in reducing such behaviors. Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a specific multi-tiered intervention for implementing effective classroom management strategies using PBIS…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Implementation, Preschool Education, Intervention
Krystine A. Jolstead; Paul Caldarella; Blake Hansen; Byran B. Korth; Leslie Williams; Debra Kamps – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2017
Challenging behavior in preschool is a serious concern for teachers. Positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) have been shown to be effective in reducing such behaviors. Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a specific multi-tiered intervention for implementing effective classroom management strategies using PBIS…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Implementation, Preschool Education, Intervention
Fratto, Kim; Throndsen, Jennifer; Suddreth, Diana; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2018
The purpose of this report is to provide formative and summative feedback to the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) regarding evidence of implementation and impact for the Interventions for Reading Difficulties Pilot Program. The report, while addressing the effects of the Interventions for Reading Difficulties Pilot Program, is also designed to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, State Programs
Rodriguez, Billie Jo; Loman, Sheldon L.; Borgmeier, Christopher – Preventing School Failure, 2016
As increasing numbers of schools implement Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), schools are looking for and implementing evidence-based practices for students whose needs are not fully met by Tier 1 supports. Although there is relative consistency and clarity in what constitutes Tier 1 behavior support within MTSS, Tier 2 supports may be more…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Intervention, Positive Behavior Supports, Evidence Based Practice
Hu, Helen H.; Shepherd, Tricia D. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
POGIL has been successfully implemented in a scientific computing course to teach science students how to program in Python. Following POGIL guidelines, the authors have developed guided inquiry activities that lead student teams to discover and understand programming concepts. With each iteration of the scientific computing course, the authors…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Science Instruction
Brand, Jamie C.; Radel, Claudia; Brain, Roslynn; Greene, Jack – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
We describe experience with a pilot week-long, No-Child-Left-Inside (NCLI), outdoor program implemented in Cache Valley, Utah, in 2012. Through response analysis of a "pre-then-post" children's survey and a parent-completed demographic survey, we assess program effectiveness in raising children's enthusiasm for nature-related behaviors…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Program Development, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
McMullin, Keith; Reeve, Edward – Journal of Technology Education, 2014
An educational crisis has been reported from many scholarly platforms for the last quarter century. The United States is faced with the challenge of providing a secondary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, especially in secondary pre-engineering, that will lead its students to the fulfillment of academic and domestic…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Public Schools, Program Implementation, College Preparation
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