Students who experience positive school climates are also less likely to participate in disruptive behavior, have issues with attendance like absenteeism and truancy, drop out, be suspended, display aggressive behavior, and engage in violence. This fact sheet provides resources created by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and…

Introduction: Leadership support has been identified as a key facilitator to successful implementation of school-based initiatives. School leadership contributions to student academic success and school reform have been documented, but less work has focused on the effects of leadership on school mental health initiatives such as social, emotional,…

Evidence that physical activities are good for health and well-being is well established. However, the intrinsic motivation for many people is not high enough to generate active engagement. A simple way to encourage enrollment in ballet classes is to make course descriptions more attractive by combining textual impulses with before-and-after…

Processes of classroom emotional transmission have been identified whereby the emotions expressed by an individual are induced in others, with particular attention paid to how this unfolds among teachers and their students. However, there is still much to be clarified about how teachers' and students' emotions transmit in the classroom, including…

Understanding causal mechanisms for implementation strategies is a priority for implementation and health promotion research. Logic models are helpful for understanding and illustrating mechanisms through which implementation strategies operate. Little guidance exists for developing logic models for existing implementation strategies. We…

The predominant method for treating obesity has been suggesting and providing information on a controlled diet and, to a lesser extent, increased exercise. That approach has largely failed beyond the short term for many decades as obesity rates continue to rise. Therefore, leveraging improvements in psychosocial correlates of weight-loss behaviors…

This study aimed to describe barriers athletic trainers (ATs) face to implementing expert recommendations for improving athletes' concussion care-seeking behavior. We distributed an electronic survey through the National Athletic Trainers' Association to 9,997 ATs working in secondary schools or collegiate institutions and received 365 complete…

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine the degree to which Uganda's public universities feel obligated to adopt socially responsible leadership practices and, in turn, live up to the expectations of their stakeholders. A crucial component of higher education institutions is socially responsible leadership in universities.…

A list of 16 things the author believes about students with gifts and talents are described in this column. These beliefs stem from research that he and/or others have conducted or from his own personal experiences. In this column, he comments on each of these statements that he has come to believe are true.

One year after the COVID-19 quarantine, we conducted an eight-week pilot study with third graders (n = 246), who took a repeating knowledge, attitude, and behavior pretest and a reading comprehension posttest from the eBook for Oral Health Literacy© curriculum. Our research questions were: 1) Will the knowledge, attitude, and behaviors of third…

Although international graduate students make valuable contributions to American society, they often encounter significant difficulties. Further research is crucial to help universities better understand and accommodate international graduate students. We initiated a mixed-method participatory action research cycle, starting with a needs…

This qualitative case study examines how undergraduate students from the education faculties of Türkiye and Italy navigated the processes of group development, leadership, and communication throughout a six-month online eTwinning Initial Teacher Education (ITE) project conducted in the 2024-2025 academic year. Written reflections by 75…

This qualitative study investigates how Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers at different career stages regulate their emotions in classroom settings, examining how these strategies are shaped by intercultural dynamics and the emotional demands of the profession. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with nine teachers (i.e.,…

The purpose of this study was to identify emotional, behavioral, and academic co-occurring risk profiles of third-grade youth and to understand how they are longitudinally associated with later outcomes in sixth grade. The latent profile analysis of data from a U.S. Midwest community sample of 1,785 third graders resulted in five classes of risk…

The aim of this study is to examine preschool children's digital play addiction tendencies and interactive peer play behaviors according to various variables and to determine the predictive power of interactive peer play behaviors on children's digital play addiction tendencies. The research was conducted using the survey model, which is one of…