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Girls Leading Outward
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Hamed, Heather; Reyes, Jazmin; Moceri, Dominic C.; Morana, Laura; Elias, Maurice J. – Educational Leadership, 2011
The authors describe a program implemented in Red Bank Middle School in New Jersey to help at-risk, minority middle school girls realize their leadership potential. The GLO (Girls Leading Outward) program was developed by the Developing Safe and Civil Schools Project at Rutgers University and is facilitated by university students. Selected middle…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Females, Assertiveness, Middle School Students
Highlights from Research on Teaching Self-Control.
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Anderson, Linda M.; Prawat, Richard S. – Educational Leadership, 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: Adults can help students become more responsible by teaching them new ways of thinking about self-control. The research summarized here suggests that: If students do not feel a sense of control over the outcomes of their actions, they will not exert much effort or assume much responsibility for what…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Personal Autonomy
Responsibility in the Classroom: A Synthesis of Research on Teaching Self-Control.
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Anderson, Linda M.; Prawat, Richard S. – Educational Leadership, 1983
Research suggests that adults can help students become more responsible by teaching them new ways of thinking about self-control and new skills and strategies for self-control. (JM)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Personal Autonomy