Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
Author
Culp, Marguerite McGann, Ed. | 1 |
Dungy, Gwendolyn Jordan, Ed. | 1 |
Essex, Michele | 1 |
Frostig, Karen | 1 |
Wilson, Louise F. | 1 |
Publication Type
Reports - Descriptive | 5 |
Guides - Non-Classroom | 4 |
Books | 2 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Journal Articles | 1 |
Reports - Research | 1 |
Tests/Questionnaires | 1 |
Education Level
Adult Education | 1 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Middle Schools | 1 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
Two Year Colleges | 1 |
Audience
Support Staff | 8 |
Practitioners | 7 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
West Virginia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Culp, Marguerite McGann, Ed.; Dungy, Gwendolyn Jordan, Ed. – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2014
More than a third of all undergraduate students are 25 or older, and their presence on college and university campuses is growing. However, institutions of higher learning are struggling to meet the needs of, and improve persistence and completion rates for, this significant student population. "Increasing Adult Learner Persistence and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools. – 2003
Across the country, groups of people who often haven't worked together previously are combining their talents and resources to improve outcomes for children and youth. They often form groups called collaboratives. This packet provides some guidance for what makes such collaborative efforts successful and what gets in the way. It is designed as an…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Partnerships in Education
Wilson, Louise F. – Journal of School Nursing, 2007
Obesity is a major pediatric public health problem. Adolescents are a priority population for intervention strategies. School nurses are in key positions to design intervention strategies to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent adolescent obesity in the students they serve. To design effective programs, school nurses need to know what components…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Prevention
Frostig, Karen; Essex, Michele – 1998
This guide provides recommendations and guidelines to expressive arts therapists and educators who work in school settings as therapists, supervisors, supervisees, or graduate school expressive arts interns. There are eight chapters: (1) Expressive Arts Therapies in School Settings (definitions, learning objectives, confidentiality, ethical…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, Educational Therapy
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools. – 2003
This Introductory Packet provides readings and related activities on support for transitions to address barriers to student learning covering both research and best practices. It explores why transitions are dangerous opportunities that can disrupt or promote development. Key transitions and related intervention strategies are presented for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Health, Prevention, Program Development
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools. – 2002
This document was prepared as a focusing tool related to national, regional, and state Summits for Student Support Administrators as they explore ideas for Moving Forward in New Directions. Contained are a concept paper entitled: "New Directions for Student Support" and a set of related resource aids. The concept paper focuses on: the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive School Reform, Educational Change, Educational Policy
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools. – 2003
Too many good programs initiated as specially funded projects, pilots, and demonstrations tend to be lost when the period of special funding ends. This guide/toolkit is designed as a resource aid for those in schools and communities who are concerned about sustaining valuable initiatives and innovations. Optimally, sustainability should be a focus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive School Reform, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools. – 2003
When it comes to student support, widespread agreement exists for moving in new directions. It is easy to agree that change is needed. It is harder to agree on what the changes should look like. And, it is even harder to get from here to there. The intent of this paper is to focus the discussion about new directions for student support by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive School Reform, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation