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Isabel Logan; Robert Madden; Matthew Solak – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
Schools of social work must prepare social workers to meet the demands of the rapidly emerging field of police social work. This article reports on the experiences of a social work program's partnership with a police department. The authors identify an integrative practice model of police social work, specifying social work roles at the…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Social Work, Partnerships in Education, Law Related Education
Chandler, Jhenai W.; Franz, Lydia – Institute for College Access & Success, 2023
In Chicago, despite an increase in high school graduates and college enrollment, only one in four community college students graduate within three years. COVID-19 exacerbated longstanding barriers to college success faced by students from low-income backgrounds, as well as for Black, Latino, and Indigenous students. Without proactive interventions…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Minority Group Students, Intervention
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Georgia Heyward – Grantee Submission, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand a school-based mentoring model that uses school staff as adult mentors. This study presents existing literature on school-based mentoring models along with a case study of one teen parent high school. The report also includes step-by-step guidance for implementation. At the case study school, all school…
Descriptors: Mentors, School Personnel, Staff Role, Adults
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2016
This document outlines how effectively integrated student supports build or scaffold student competencies in five broad domains of learning for college, career, and civic readiness. Relevant supports are not limited to "services" or "programs" but extend to enabling resources and social conditions, including, for example,…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Student Personnel Services, Academic Support Services, Access to Education
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2015
This brief is part of a series that shares findings from a research collaboration between the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) focused on understanding implementation of the community school model in the district. This brief highlights findings related to…
Descriptors: Community Schools, School Districts, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
Darian, Louisa – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2016
The Government is committed to introducing a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) to assess the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. Designing the right solution is challenging. There is no off-the-shelf solution from other countries that we can lift. But we can learn lessons from other sectors. This pamphlet explores rating…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Benchmarking
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2015
This brief is part of a series that shares findings from a research collaboration between the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) focused on understanding implementation of the community school model in the district. This brief highlights findings related to…
Descriptors: Community Schools, School Districts, Integrated Services, Models
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Lechtenberger, DeAnn; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Sokolosky, Stephanie; McCrary, Donna – College Student Journal, 2012
The wraparound planning process developed for a young adult with significant physical and developmental disabilities described in this article validates the importance of collaboration between service providers, academic advisors, faculty, and staff in institutions of higher education to support students with disabilities to successfully complete…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developmental Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled), Integrated Services
Child Trends, 2014
Integrated student supports (ISS), sometimes referred to as integrated student services, represents an emerging field of practice that aims to address persistent disparities in educational achievement and attainment. ISS is a school-based approach to promoting students' academic achievement and educational attainment by coordinating a seamless…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Student Personnel Services
Fehrer, Kendra; Leos-Urbel, Jacob – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2015
In 2010, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) launched an initiative to transform all district schools into full service community schools. The community school design provides integrated supports to students and fosters a school climate conducive to academic, social, and emotional learning. Interventions span in-school and out-of-school time,…
Descriptors: Community Schools, School Districts, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Shang, Paul; Barkis, Marita – New Directions for Student Services, 2009
It would be an amazing understatement to say that much has changed on college and university campuses since Delworth introduced the Assessment-Intervention of Student Problems (AISP) model. For one thing, the term "minority" has been replaced by phrases like "students of color" and "diverse students." Another change is that campus diversity…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Campuses, Intervention, Student Diversity
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Mroz, Maria – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
The recommendations from the Bercow Review of services for children with speech, language and communication needs (DCSF, 2008a) have significant implications for the training of pre-service teachers who will be expected to be more able to meet the needs of such children. This article explores the potential within the Standards for Qualified…
Descriptors: Identification, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
Knight, Jane – Canadian Bureau for International Education, 1994
Internationalization is an increasingly important issue in higher education around the world. "Global education can no longer be viewed as a secondary consideration; we must recognize that it is central to developing graduates who can cope effectively with the modern, interdependent world" (Wood, 1991). While universities and colleges…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Global Education, Sustainability