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Jen Eklund; Kelsie Fowler; Caroline Kiehle; Lori Henrickson; Deb L. Morrison – Connected Science Learning, 2024
A system of climate learning includes students, educators, administrators, educational leaders, community members, and others across different contexts and from diverse lived experiences. As people begin to foster climate learning within these systems, the work of drawing people together in this work can seem daunting. However, the lessons from…
Descriptors: Climate, Science Instruction, Environmental Education, Communities of Practice
Friedlaender, Diane – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2019
What does it take to transform a large, bureaucratic institution with a fractured culture and a compliance orientation into a nurturing, collaborative, vision-directed organization? In 2017, the California Department of Education's Expanded Learning Division (after-school and summer programs) took a radically different approach by cultivating the…
Descriptors: Humanism, Organizational Change, Educational Change, After School Programs
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Chetna Duggal; Kanak Kataria; Lamia Bagasrawala; Anvita Walia – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2025
India is home to the largest population of adolescents in the world, of which nearly half experience one or more adverse childhood experiences. Despite rising interest in building trauma-sensitive school systems globally, such initiatives are limited in India. This paper presents the development, implementation, and acceptability of the Fostering…
Descriptors: Trauma, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Friedlaender, Diane – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2019
What does it take to transform a large, bureaucratic institution with a fractured culture and a compliance orientation into a nurturing, collaborative, vision-directed organization? This report and the accompanying research brief endeavor to answer that question by examining a humanistic and systems thinking approach to cultural change that took…
Descriptors: Humanism, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Systems Approach
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Arrington, T. Logan; Moore, Alison L.; Bagdy, Lauren M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
This article presents the results of a collective case study exploring how K12 practitioners perceive the interaction of systems thinking, creativity, and learning from failure within their professional practice. In order to identify K12 practitioners who were well-versed in systems thinking, we targeted students within an instructional design and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Creativity, Kindergarten
Nanmathi Manian – National Comprehensive Center, 2021
Addressing the surge in mental health and social and emotional needs of students and staff will be critical in the upcoming years. The increased understanding of the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma, and their negative effects on the social, emotional, and academic success of students, has propelled a growing number of…
Descriptors: Trauma, Mental Health, Health Needs, Teaching Methods
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Moore, Pauline; Jackson, Brian A.; Augustine, Catherine H.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Phillips, Andrea – RAND Corporation, 2021
School leaders across the United States face the challenge of creating safe and secure environments across their campuses in a way that helps promote the achievement of schools' educational objectives. To help them meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asked the Homeland…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Safety, Public Agencies, Kindergarten
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Weiss, Heather; Little, Priscilla; Bouffard, Suzanne M.; Deschenes, Sarah N.; Malone, Helen Janc – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
After-school learning, summer learning, and family involvement in learning are major predictors of children's development, educational achievement, and school success. The United States will not achieve its national goals of equal educational opportunity without addressing the importance of and inequities in out-of-school learning opportunities.…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Access to Education
Grantmakers for Education, 2006
Gaps in academic achievement between students from various racial and ethnic groups and from low-income families are a cause for national concern. The advent of high stakes testing and the increased awareness of high dropout rates have rekindled the search for ways to help all children succeed in school. Many strategies to address lagging…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Ethnic Groups, Systems Approach
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2005
This handbook provides P-16 council leaders with a toolkit of background information and proposed procedures for structuring and guiding implementation of Business-Higher Education Forum's (BHEF) proposed action plan. Specifically, it details a four-part nationwide action plan to improve overall pre-kindergarten through high school (P-12)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Business