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Direct linkRebecca Dowling; Andrew P. Jaciw; Mayah Waltower; Li Lin; Jenna Zacamy – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study evaluates the first year of implementation of "How Are the Children" (HATC), a project-based social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed to enhance high school student's social-emotional (SE) development. Through documentary filmmaking and lessons based on SE competencies, HATC aims to provide SEL support that…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
Rebecca Dowling; Andrew P. Jaciw; Mayah Waltower; Li Lin; Jenna Zacamy – Empirical Education Inc., 2025
In December 2022, Rock Island-Milan School District #41 (RIMSD), in partnership with the Connect with Kids Network (CWK) and Empirical Education, received an early-phase Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. RIMSD contracted with Empirical Education to conduct a one-year teacher-level randomized…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
Andrew P. Jaciw; Rebecca Dowling; Mayah Waltower; Li Lin; Jenna Zacamy – Empirical Education Inc., 2025
This report contains supplemental data to the report "'How Are the Children?' A Study of the Effectiveness of a Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum for High School Students: A Report of a Randomized Experiment Conducted in the Rock Island Milan School District." The report presents findings from a one-year teacher-level randomized…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP)" is a core mathematics curriculum that includes materials and a routinized instructional approach with an option for teacher training. The curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach with a focus on active learning where students frequently engage in hands-on activities and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Intervention, Experiential Learning
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP)" is a core mathematics curriculum that includes materials and a routinized instructional approach with an option for teacher training. The curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach with a focus on active learning where students frequently engage in hands-on activities and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Intervention, Experiential Learning
Terrazas-Arellanes, Fatima E.; Gallard M., Alejandro J.; Strycker, Lisa A.; Walden, Emily D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to document the design, classroom implementation, and effectiveness of interactive online units to enhance science learning over 3 years among students with learning disabilities, English learners, and general education students. Results of a randomised controlled trial with 2,303 middle school students and 71…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Online Courses, Learning Disabilities, English Language Learners
Zusevics, Kaija L.; Johnson, Sheri – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2014
Hope is positively correlated with educational attainment and health. Interventions based on project-based learning (PBL) may increase youth hope. This study examined how a PBL intervention affected hope among urban students of color. Students in health classes were invited to participate. A PBL health class was implemented in four classrooms. The…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Health Programs, Student Projects, Active Learning
