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Gillan, Amy Larrison; Hebert, Terri – Science and Children, 2014
The People Learning Urban Science (PLUS) program creates partnerships and coordinates efforts involving a local zoo, university, and school district, seeking to instill within students a sense of the natural environment. Even though the majority of students live among concrete and metal structures, their eyes and ears can be trained to make…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Zoology, College School Cooperation, Outdoor Education
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Rattigan-Rohr, Jean; He, Ye; Murphy, Mary Beth; Knight, Gerald – AILACTE Journal, 2014
This paper describes a community-based after-school tutoring project, where families are participants together with their children. There are 50 family members involved in the project, several have multiple children enrolled, and four families were selected for an in-depth case study. The goals of this mixed method study were to determine why…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Tutoring, School Community Programs, Family Programs
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Sanders, Mavis G. – American Journal of Education, 2014
Based on data from a longitudinal multiple case study, this article describes how district-level expectations, policies, and practices affected principals' responses to an external reform in two school districts, one urban and one suburban. The specific reform highlighted is a comprehensive family and community engagement approach developed…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership, School Community Programs, Systems Approach
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Krause, Tracy – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2014
This article describes how the physical educators at Tahoma High School, in a community in Washington state's Cascade Mountains, surveyed their students, reached out to the community, integrated physical education and academics, and established a school-wide focus on wellness. Tracy Krause writes that the three "Rs"--relationships,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Needs, Student Interests, Program Descriptions
Noel, Jana; Earwicker, David P. – New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2014
The Community Engagement Classification is an elective classification offered by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In order to be classified, campuses provide evidence documenting engagement through an application process. Campuses were classified in 2006, 2008, and 2010, and will be classified on five-year cycles from 2015…
Descriptors: Classification, Colleges, School Community Relationship, Academic Degrees
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Down, Lorna – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
A study of teachers' responses to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in a graduate course in Literature and Education for Sustainable Development, at the School of Education, The University of the West Indies, Mona, revealed that ESD can change indifference to the "commons" to one of mindfulness about local and global…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Educational Practices, Teacher Response
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Smith, Déirdre; Engemann, Joe – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
Educators from eight institutions engaged in collaborative self-studies of their own practices to gain deeper insight into the significance of narrative-based writing supporting the process of teacher induction. A series of teacher induction institutes based on narrative writing processes provided the context for critical exploration of the lived…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Beginning Teacher Induction, Phenomenology, Mentors
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Werner, Christian; Linke, Sandra K. – Gifted and Talented International, 2013
The authors of this article believe intergenerational projects provide appropriate solutions to this complex phenomenon. With this in our mind, we present the story behind a unique German programi involving gifted young people which is designed to bring different age groups together in order to perform and share experiences through music. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Generational Differences, Music Activities
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Folds-Bennett, Trisha; Twomey, Mary Pat – Honors in Practice, 2013
A significant challenge in honors education is providing experiences through which students deeply engage ideas and content so that their analytical abilities and core beliefs and values are transformed. The College of Charleston Honors College aimed to stimulate critical thinking and examination of core values through a more holistic approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Honors Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Values
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Barrett, Debra K. – Journal of Extension, 2013
For Michigan State University Extension, the Berrien County 4-H Tractor Operator Program has provided tractor safety education to teens for over 30 years. The certification training satisfies current requirements for operation of a 20 PTO HP or greater agricultural tractor by 14- and 15-year-old youth employed on property "not" owned,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Youth Opportunities, Employment Potential, Job Skills
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Berkove, Ethan – PRIMUS, 2013
A capstone course is often synthetic, bringing together many components of a student's educational background. For this reason, a project-based course in mathematical modeling makes a great capstone, as modeling problems often require a broad collection of mathematical tools for their solution. The addition of a service-learning component can…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Undergraduate Study, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Calvert-Bertrand, Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study's purpose was to investigate new site administrators' perceptions of the term "community involvement", of their role to engage the local community members as partners in their school, their preparation and support to work with their communities, and their challenges on-the-job with community engagement. This study also…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Involvement, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
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Burke, Kevin J.; Greene, Stuart; McKenna, Maria K. – Urban Education, 2016
The article draws on work in Critical Geography Studies and Photovoice methodology, to illustrate the ways in which youth in an inner city conceptualize neighborhoods and public spaces. We utilize youth's photographs, narratives, and maps to tell a story of youth's lived experiences and argue that these experiences are vital sources of knowledge…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Urban Environment, Physical Environment
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McBride, Amanda Moore; Chung, Saras; Robertson, Anne – Journal of Experiential Education, 2016
Behaviors that warrant school discipline (e.g., fighting, victimizing peers) is detrimental to school climate and the learning process. This study examines the effectiveness of preventing school disciplinary incidents in middle school through an experiential, social and emotional learning (SEL) program. A community youth development organization,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Emotional Development, Discipline Problems, Social Development
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Miles, James – Teaching Artist Journal, 2016
Black and brown people are being murdered by police officers at an alarming rate, and nothing is being done about it.
Descriptors: Community Action, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations
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