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April R. Coetzee; Felicity L. Brown; Vania Alves; J. Lawrence Aber; Juliana Córdoba; Mark J. D. Jordans – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2025
Support to improve teacher wellbeing is scarce in almost all contexts, but especially so in low- and middle-income settings in which teachers face both professional and personal challenges (Kirk and Winthrop 2007; Mendenhall, Gomez, and Varni 2018). In this field note, we discuss War Child's development of Coaching-Observing-Reflecting-Engaging…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teachers, Well Being, Foreign Countries
Schaberg, Kelsey – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
Skills have long been associated with productivity and economic well-being. A large body of evidence shows the value of academic and technical skills in the workplace. And in recent years, soft skills--skills that make for an effective employee, such as time management and communication--have also become increasingly valued in the workplace.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Job Skills, Employment Programs, Job Training
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Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Urban, Jennifer Brown; Zaff, Jon – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Whether discussing the process involved in positive youth development (PYD), articulating an approach (or philosophy) of youth programs associated with PYD, or enacting a program aimed at promoting PYD, ideas derived from relational developmental systems (RDS) metatheory are pertinent. Accordingly, we discuss the RDS metamodel and explain the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Youth Programs, Social Justice, Evaluation Methods
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Cerully, Jennifer L.; Wang, Elaine Win; Schweig, Jonathan; Todd, Ivy; Johnston, William R.; Schnittka, Jessica – RAND Corporation, 2020
In any K-12 classroom in America, chances are that at least one student is dealing directly with bullying, harassment, or another type of emotional or physical violence. What can teachers, principals, and school district leaders do to improve safety at their schools? There is some evidence that improving the social and emotional skills of both…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Environment, School Safety
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Klorer, P. Gussie; Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
Head Start, a U.S. federally funded program, prepares children for school through early childhood intervention in social-emotional and cognitive arenas. This article describes program evaluation survey results from the past 5 years of an 18-year collaboration between a university graduate art therapy program and 8 Head Start centers. Graduate art…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
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Knox, Michele S.; Burkhart, Kimberly; Hunter, Kimberly E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids program (ACT-PRSK) is an interactive violence prevention program developed by the American Psychological Association for parents of young children. The program teaches and supports parents in the areas of child development, roots and consequences of violence, anger management for adults and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Intervention, Family Violence, Child Abuse
Blackman, Sheldon; And Others – 1987
The Gamblers Treatment Clinic (GTC) opened in 1982 as a New York State Office of Mental Health Demonstration Program. The basic premise of the GTC is that excessive gambling is a disorder of impulse control. Treatment, conducted in the community in a time-limited fashion, attempts to uncover the underlying dynamics that precipitate disorders of…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques, Interpersonal Relationship
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
The purpose of the Meeting Students' Needs in the Multiage Group Environment (MSN) program was to provide an instructional system to meet the needs of elementary school students of differing achievement, age, and grade level who are in the same classroom. The program, for kindergarten through grade six, was characterized by an innovative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education