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A Call to Action: HIV/AIDS, Health, Safety, and the Youth Employment Summit
This paper was prepared for the 2002 Youth Employment Summit (YES) and discusses five important questions: a) What challenges do HIV and other health issues create for youth and employment?; b) How does the concept of "health-promoting workplaces or livelihoods"apply to the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other health risks?; c) What examples exist of "best policies and practices"?; d) Where can Youth Employment Summit participants find resources?; e) What questions or concerns should we address at the Youth Employment Summit?
A Campus-community Coalition to Control Alcohol-related Problems Off Campus: An Environmental Management Case Study
"The Albany, New York, Committee on University and Community Relations used strategies based on an environmental management approach that focuses on changing the environment in which individuals make decisions about alcohol consumption and related behaviors. Committee initiatives included improving enforcement of local laws and ordinances, creating a safety-awareness campaign for off-campus students, and developing a comprehensive advertising and beverage-service agreement with local tavern owners. Journal of American College Health, Volume 48, Number 5, pp. 211-214, March 2000.
Article reprinted With Permission Of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Published By Heldref Publications, 1319 18th St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036-1802.
A Case Against "Binge" as the Term of Choice: How to Get College Students to Personalize Messages about Dangerous Drinking
This report, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free Schools Program and published by the Communication and Health Issues Partnership for Education and Research (CHI) at Rutgers, advocates for students' thinking to be taken into account in the terminology used when discussing the prevention of problematic drinking on college campuses. Reprinted with permission from the Communication and Health Issues Partnership for Education and Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, 2001, and in an earlier version at the National Conference on Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, Pittsburgh, 2000.
A College Case Study: A Supplement to Understanding Evaluation: The Way to Better Prevention Programs
In telling the story of a fictitious college, this case study helps prevention specialists, administrators, and others concerned with preventing alcohol and other drug (AOD) use on college campuses get a feel for what is involved in setting up an evaluation of a college AOD prevention program and what can be gained from the process.
A Description of Foundation Skills Interventions for Struggling Middle-Grade Readers in Four Urban Northeast and Islands Region School Districts
This study describes how four midsize urban school districts in the Northeast and Islands Region were providing foundation skills assessments and programs to struggling middle-grade readers. Researchers found variations, but also some similarities, in the districts’ use of tests and programs.
A Descriptive Analysis of State-Supported Formative Assessment Initiatives in New York and Vermont
This study examines two state-supported formative assessment initiatives that promote a consensus definition of formative assessment endorsed by the Council of Chief State School Officers. It describes the primary components of the two initiatives and the strategies that state, district, and school leaders report using to support implementation of each initiative.
A Guide to Facilitating Cases in Education
The power of a case lies not in the narrative but in the discussion that it generates. It is the role of the facilitator to maximize opportunities for discussion. This guide offers valuable help for anyone charged with that task, describing how to foster and enhance the professional development experience.
A Multifaceted Social Norms Approach to Reduce High-Risk Drinking: Lessons from Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alcohol Education Project tested the social norms approach on the HWS campus to see if communicating accurate norms about actual student drinking behavior could produce substantial positive effects on alcohol use. The project's five components—(1) data collection; (2) print media campaigns; (3) electronic media campaign; (4) curriculum development; and (5) campus presentations, staff development, and cocurricular activities—worked in concert to create a comprehensive initiative to influence perceptions of social norms regarding alcohol use among students and, in turn, reduce actual high-risk drinking behavior. The U.S. Department of Education funded the implementation of the campus intervention, analysis of the results, and preparation of the dissemination report. This publication describes the five components and the results of the project's efforts. The HWS Project provides further evidence for the effectiveness of social norms efforts to reduce high-risk drinking and associated problems at colleges and universities.
A Practical Guide to Alcohol Abuse Prevention: A Campus Case Study in Implementing Social Norms and Environmental Management Approaches
This guide from the University of Arizona (UA) describes a four-year project that brought about a 29.2 percent decrease in heavy drinking at that campus. It looks at the theories behind the approach, the application of social norms and environmental management approaches at UA, measuring outcomes, the cost of UA’s print media social norms campaign, factors that sustain efforts over time, and challenges to the field. Gives practical steps for the development of a social norms media campaign, including the selection of format, placement, and design; production of pilot ads (what worked and what didn’t); use of market tests; and implementation of the campaign.
A Retrospective on Twenty Years of Education Technology Policy
In a report analyzing 20 years of national education technology policy, researchers at EDC's Center for Children and Technology discover a striking consensus in past recommendations for the effective integration of technology in schools and offer advice about recommendations for the next 20 years.
A Social Norms Approach to Binge Drinking at Colleges and Universities
Research has demonstrated that at many colleges and universities there is a significant disparity between student estimates of binge drinking by students and actual binge drinking behavior. This publication describes a campus-based mass media program instituted at Northern Illinois University aimed at changing student perceptions of the drinking habits of their fellow students. It also suggests ways of adapting this approach on other campuses.
A World in Motion (AWIM): The Design Experience
Nothing excites middle-school students more than an opportunity to innovate, create, or invent. A World in Motion (AWIM) introduces young students to the excitement of learning math, science, and technology concepts in the context of an authentic engineering design experience.
Access to Algebra I: The Effects of Online Mathematics for Grade 8 Students
This report presents findings from a randomized control trial designed to inform the decisions of policymakers who are considering using online courses to provide access to Algebra I in grade 8. It focuses on students judged by their schools to be ready to take Algebra I in grade 8 but who attend schools that do not offer the course. The study tested the impact of offering an online Algebra I course on students’ algebra achievement at the end of grade 8 and their subsequent likelihood of participating in an advanced mathematics course sequence in high school. The study was designed to respond to both broad public interest in the deployment of online courses for K–12 students and to calls from policymakers to provide students with adequate pathways to advanced coursetaking sequences in mathematics.
Addressing Corruption in Education: A Toolkit for Youth from Youth
Addressing Corruption in Education: A Toolkit for Youth from Youth was developed in the framework of the United States Agency for International Development funded Europe & Eurasia Social Legacy Program. It is intended to serve as an educational tool, providing information and resources for the design and implementation of activities to promote transparency in education. It was developed for individuals and institutions, particularly youth-led and youth-oriented nongovernmental organizations.
Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice
Adolescent Literacy convenes a conversation among today’s most important educational thinkers and practitioners to address crucial advances in research on adolescent learning, to assess which of our current practices meets the challenges of the twenty-first century, and to discover transformative ideas and methods that turn the promise of education into instructional practice. The book discusses the most provocative issues of our time, including English language learners, struggling readers, technology in the classroom, multimodal literacy, compelling writing instruction, teaching in a “flat world,” engagement, and young adult literature. Each of its chapters builds on the previous to create a unified story of adolescent literacy that helps all middle and secondary teachers and administrators envision literacy instruction in exciting new ways. In addition Adolescent Literacy’s assessment rubrics for teachers, administrators, and staff developers make it an ideal resource for school-wide and district-wide professional development, while its accompanying study guide is perfect for small-group discussions. Aguilar’s chapter, “English Language Learners in the Classroom,” was written along with Danling Fu, associate professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, and Carol Jago, a teacher at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California.
Read EDC's Spotlight on Staff on Cynthia Mata Aguilar: http://main.edc.org/Staff/aguilar.asp
Adolescent Substance Use: Risk and Protection
This publication looks at planning and delivering effective treatment and rehabilitation programmes for adolescent substance users in the Greater Mekong Subregion and beyond. It examines issues such as treatment approaches to youth drug use, successful intervention, current treatment and aftercare programmes, and the implementation of effective preventive programmes.
Adventures in Supercomputing: 1993 - 1994 Evaluation Final Report
The goal of Adventures in Supercomputing (AiS) is to cultivate the interests of diverse populations of high school students, particularly students of color, girls, and economically disadvantaged students in science, mathematics, and computing. The AiS curriculum introduces students to the field of computational science, in which supercomputers are used to run simulations that form the basis of scientific experiments.
After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
This toolkit is designed to assist schools in the aftermath of a suicide (or other death) in the school community. It is meant to serve as a practical resource for schools facing real-time crises to help them determine what to do, when, and how. The toolkit reflects consensus recommendations developed in consultation with a diverse group of national experts, including school-based personnel, clinicians, researchers, and crisis response professionals. It incorporates relevant existing material and research findings as well as references, templates, and links to additional information and assistance.
After a Suicide: Recommendations for Religious Services and Other Public Memorial Observances
This publication is a guide to help community and faith leaders who plan memorial observances and provide support for individuals after the loss of a loved one to suicide.
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Among First-Year College Students
Knowing the points of peak risk during a student’s first year helps campus officials time their interventions for maximum effectiveness—for example, pre-enrollment messages, orientation week, and fall semester. This Infofacts/Resources looks at the scope of the problem of alcohol and other drug abuse, including the elevated risk in the first year of college, and discusses interventions and provides examples of programs that prevention professionals can use to help students successfully negotiate the transition from high school to college life.
Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention on College Campuses: Model Programs
This report describes the nature and scope of alcohol- and other drug-related concerns on college campuses, and specifically what 19 institutions of higher education are doing to make their campuses safer and to foster better academic and social environments.
Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention: A Bulletin for Fraternity and Sorority Advisers
Greek advisers play a crucial role in alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention among students with whom they work. This bulletin describes the prevention approaches that Greek affairs staff have used on their own campuses and presents several national AOD prevention programs specifically designed or customized for Greeks. Also discussed are solutions to common barriers to AOD prevention programming for campus sororities and fraternities.
Alcohol and Other Drug Use at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Studies confirm that students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and African American students in general drink far less than do students at predominantly white institutions. This Infofacts/Resources examines the findings of studies on the prevalence of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use at HBCUs, looks at the nature of the environment that HBCUs create for their students that has led to lower rates of AOD use than at predominantly white institutions, and offers some recommendations for moving forward.
Alcohol and Other Drugs on Campus—The Scope of the Problem
The most widespread health problem on college and university campuses in the United States is high-risk alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. Recent reports confirm that the nation's campuses continue to encounter significant consequences as a result of this problem. This Infofacts/Resources offers an overview of the problem and highlights effective prevention approaches that many campuses are currently following.
Alcohol and Other Drugs: Prevention Challenges at Community Colleges
National surveys at all types of institutions of higher education have found that community college students and those attending four-year colleges differ in a number of areas, including social demographics and alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and related problems. Because community colleges are so closely linked to the communities they serve, prevention strategies that are based on collaborations and coalitions with organizations, institutions, and businesses are likely to yield the most successful outcomes. This guide takes a look at the specific challenges community colleges face and provides strategies for preventing AOD problems. Among the practices described are policy development, implementation, and enforcement; responsible hosting; community coalitions; and the use of social marketing, mass media, and media advocacy to gain a voice for prevention.
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention: A Guide for Public Health Practitioners
Screening and brief intervention (SBI) is a structured set of questions designed to identify individuals at risk for alcohol use problems, followed by a brief discussion between an individual and a service provider, with referral to specialized treatment as needed. The purpose of this manual is to provide public health professionals, such as health educators and community health workers, with the information, skills, and tools needed to conduct SBI so that they can help at-risk drinkers reduce their alcohol use to a safe amount or stop drinking.
Alcohol, Other Drugs, and College: A Parent's Guide
This flyer was prepared for high school guidance counselors to distribute to parents of juniors and seniors via mailings and at college fairs and financial aid presentations.
Algebra and Algebraic Thinking in School Mathematics, 70th Yearbook
This book examines the status of algebra in our schools and the changes that the curriculum has undergone over the past several years. Includes successful classroom practices for developing algebraic reasoning abilities and improving overall understanding.
It features chapters wriiten by EDC staff:
- "Introducing Extensible Tools in High School Algebra" by Al Cuoco
- "Algebra in the Grades K–5 Classroom: Learning Opportunities for Students and Teachers" by Deborah Schifter (EDC), Virginia Bastable (Mount Holyoke College), Susan Jo Russell (TERC), Lisa Seyferth (Horace Mann School), and Margaret Riddle (Northampton Public Schools)
Algebra in the Early Grades
This book provides a rationale for a stronger and more sustained approach to algebra in school, as well as concrete examples of how algebraic reasoning may be developed in the early grades.
The book features the following chapters by EDC staff:
- "Classroom Stories: Examples of Elementary Students Engaged in Early Algebra" by V. Bastable and D. Schifter
- "Early Algebra: What Does Understanding the Laws of Arithmetic Mean in the Elementary Grades?" by D. Schifter, S. Monk, S.J. Russell, V. Bastable
- "Early Algebra: The MW Perspective" by P. Goldenberg and N. Shteingold
An MCH Approach to Preventing Child Maltreatment
Child maltreatment affects our society’s most vulnerable members. This report provides State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) professionals with information about child maltreatment and how they can help prevent the abuse and neglect of children. It includes four sections:
- Child Maltreatment—The Problem summarizes the extent, causes, and consequences of child maltreatment.
- The Role of MCH in Preventing Child Maltreatment describes why and how MCH programs can contribute to preventing child maltreatment.
- Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Title V State Performance Measure discusses child maltreatment as a Title V State Performance Measure.
- What We Did and How We Did It includes case studies of five States that designated child.
Analyzing Performance by Hispanic High School Students on the Massachusetts State Assessment
The report examines Hispanic high school students' performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests in English language arts and mathematics over 2002/03–2005/06. It compares the scores of grade 10 Hispanic and non-Hispanic students and uses multilevel regressions to examine associations between the Hispanic students’ scores and student- and school-level characteristics.
Annotated Bibliography of Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Resources 1995–2000
This Web-based resource is a compilation of older literature reviews (1995–2000). Like the current Annotated Bibliography, this older version includes articles from peer-reviewed journals that provide information on the scope of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and violence, consequences, and prevention at institute for higher education (IHEs). Although most of the articles relate to prevention or intervention studies on campus, this resource also includes related articles written about community-based efforts. The concepts and approaches described within these abstracts should be viewed in the broader context of prevention theory and the approaches affirmed by the U.S. Department of Education and promoted by the Center.
Annotated Bibliography of Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Resources 2001–2005
This Web-based resource is a compilation of literature reviews conducted between 2001 and 2005. It includes articles from peer-reviewed journals that provide information on the scope of AOD use and violence, consequences, and prevention at IHEs. Although most of the articles relate to prevention or intervention studies on campus, this resource also includes related articles written about community-based efforts. The concepts and approaches described within these abstracts should be viewed in the broader context of prevention theory and the approaches affirmed by the U.S. Department of Education and promoted by the Center.
Annotated Bibliography of Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Resources 2006–2008
This Web-based resource is a compilation of literature reviews conducted between 2006 and 2008. It includes articles from peer-reviewed journals that provide information on the scope of alcohol and other drug use and violence, consequences, and prevention at institutions of higher education. Although most of the articles relate to prevention or intervention studies on campus, this resource also includes related articles written about community-based efforts. The concepts and approaches described within these abstracts should be viewed in the broader context of prevention theory and the approaches affirmed by the U.S. Department of Education and promoted by the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention.
Articles on Statewide Efforts
This handout packet contains the following articles, most of which originally appeared in Catalyst: "Statewide Initiatives for Prevention: What's up in 45 States?" (reprinted from Prevention File Special Fall 2003 Edition); "The State of the States . . . When It Comes to Prevention"; "What's up with the Grantees?"; "What's up in Arkansas and New York?"; "The ABCs of Alcohol Problem Prevention"; "Statewide Initiatives Hold Increased Promise"; and "Montana: A Work in Progress."
Arts Education: Reflections on Looking at Student Work Project
This report examines as a "friendly critic" the 2002–2003 meetings of the Looking at Student Work project, an association of individuals and educational organizations focused on examining student work to foster greater cohesion between instruction, curriculum, and other aspects of school life and students' learning.
Ask & You Will Receive: A Fundraising Guide for Suicide Prevention Advocates
This document created in partnership with the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA) presents new ways to think about generating support for your program. Links to other resources are embedded throughout the document so that you can easily find the most relevant materials. This guide will help you think through your approach, select a strategy, and get started on a fundraising campaign.
Assessing Students' Mathematics Learning
One of two papers in the Issues in Mathematics Education series, this paper explores issues related to both high-stakes and in-classroom assessments in mathematics. Intended for use by schools and teachers, possibly with parents, the paper clarifies common terminology and uses of test scores, and helps guide readers to think about ways of evaluating assessments.
Also check out Thinking (and Talking) About Technology in Math Classrooms
Assessment Continuum of Schoolwide Improvement Outcomes: Implementing the Components of Systemic Schoolwide Improvement
A dynamic guide for schools to self-assess, monitor, and engage in continual, systemic improvement for increased student achievement.
Included is a CD-ROM with electronic versions of the forms and templates for creating your own components, and a poster for displaying the school’s assessment results and posting growth over time.
At-a-Glance: Safe Reporting on Suicide
A two page summary of the 2001 publication, Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media, that’s present guidelines for the media around reporting suicide safely without encouraging contagion.
Bangladesh Youth Employment Pilot (BYEP): Program Description & Assessment Findings
This report assesses the challenges and opportunities to improve the vocational skills of youth in Bangladesh. EDC's approach focuses on Bangladesh's fast-growing aquaculture industry, specifically the demand for labor by the fresh water prawn farming subsector. EDC has formed a partnership with a local non-governmental organization, Working for a Better Life, that is affiliated with local hatchery enterprises in the Barisal Region.
Be Vocal, Be Visible, Be Visionary: A Report from the Field by the Presidents Leadership Group
This inspiring video highlights innovative and effective prevention strategies in academic programming, student social events and residences, and campus and community partnerships that are taking place in colleges and universities across the United States. "A Report from the Field" features the Presidents Leadership Group's recommendations and shows how college officials can take a leadership role in combatting alcohol and other drug problems. Produced with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Becoming A Responsible Teen (B.A.R.T.)
This eight-lesson curriculum has been proven effective in giving teens the assertive communication and refusal skills they need to delay sexual involvement--and reduce their exposure to HIV/AIDS. Interactive group discussions and frequent role plays educate teens about HIV risks. All activities focus on creative problem solving and extend the learning beyond the classroom.
An HIV Risk Reduction Program for African American Adolescents
Becoming A Responsible Teen (B.A.R.T.) Training Manual
Written to accompany B.A.R.T. (an HIV prevention curriculum originally developed for African-American adolescents) this manual helps prepare leaders who work directly with youth.
Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention
This registry contains factsheets about programs and materials that have been reviewed for best practices that address specific objectives of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
Beyond Barbie® and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender disparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors in World of Warcraft, but they are also scantily clad "booth babes" whose sex appeal is used to promote games at trade shows. Player-generated content has revolutionized gaming, but few games marketed to girls allow "modding" (game modifications made by players). Gender equity, the contributors to Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat argue, requires more than increasing the overall numbers of female players.
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat brings together new media theorists, game designers, educators, psychologists, and industry professionals, including some of the contributors to the earlier volume, to look at how gender intersects with the broader contexts of digital games today: gaming, game industry and design, and serious games. The contributors discuss the rise of massively multiplayer online games and the experience of girl and women players in gaming communities; the still male-dominated gaming industry and the need for different perspectives in game design; and gender concerns related to emerging serious games (games meant not only to entertain but also to educate, persuade, or change behavior). In today's game-packed digital landscape, there is an even greater need for games that offer motivating, challenging, and enriching contexts for play to a more diverse population of players.
EDC's Cornelia Brunner authors the chapter "Games and Technological Desire: Another Decade," which examines why the call for gender-neutral games remains fresh and how small shifts show signs of progress.
Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack
In response to September's terrorist tragedy and subsequent attacks against Arab-Americans, EDC has developed a free, 25-page curriculum for middle and high school students focused on issues of justice and mislaid blame.
Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack, which is co-sponsored by The Justice Project and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), was designed by a team of EDC researchers and curriculum writers who were concerned that the terrorist attacks have created a hostile climate for Arab-Americans--much like the climate Japanese-Americans faced following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The curriculum features three lessons, designed to stimulate student reflection, discussion, and writing. Lesson 1, "What is Justice? What is the Injustice Here?", guides students through a discussion of the events of September 11th and reports of subsequent attacks and threats made against innocent people perceived to be of Arab descent. Lesson 2, "Has the Past Been Just?", examines parallels between today's events and the internment of Japanese-Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Lesson 3, "How Can You Prevent Injustice?" leads students through a discussion of the kinds of actions they can take to prevent injustice, discrimination, and mislaid blame.
Beyond Classical Pedagogy: Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
Beyond Classical Pedagogy: Teaching Elementary School Mathematics provides descriptions and analyses of the teaching that has evolved in mathematics classrooms of teachers who have been forerunners in the effort to implement the NCTM Standards in Elementary Mathematics. Research and insights from three disciplinary perspectives are presented: psychology, mathematics, and sociology
Bioscience Education and Training Program Directory
This directory provides information about more than 80 high-school, college, and industry-based programs, nationwide, that prepare people for entry-level technical positions in pharmaceutical and biotechnology work settings. Entries list the unique features of each program and provide contact information. The directory also includes a summary report about issues and trends in bioscience education and training.
Blending Early Care and Education Funds—Finance Issues, Opportunities, and Strategies (Vol. 1, No. 2)
Describes the study's finance-related findings. Profiles the sources of resources, strategies used to manage funds, and issues in managing funds from different sources.
Briefing Paper on STEM Education in Maine
Addressing the issue of preparedness of Maine students for jobs in STEM areas has been a concern of the legislature, the Maine Department of Education, the Office of the Governor, and a number of business and research institutes across the state. In the spring of 2010, policy researchers from EDC were asked by members of the Maine STEM Collaborative Steering Committee to develop a briefing paper on the status of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs in Maine. The study had as its basis a review of research on school improvement in several states, with an emphasis on local control states. This research had been documented in three previous studies by EDC and a recent review of national studies and STEM proposals in Race to the Top grants. The second part of the study consisted of 29 interviews with Maine policymakers and important players in the area of STEM education. The interview questions focused on both STEM initiatives and the state’s educational improvement system.
Building a Gender Friendly School Environment: A Toolkit for Educators and Their Unions
Education International, EDC, and the World Health Organization have developed a toolkit to help educators’ unions create a healthy, safe environment in learning institutions for learners of all ages. The goal is to challenge and change negative gender stereotyping and gender inequalities in all aspects of learning institutions and to promote equal opportunities for female and male learners to develop a healthy gender identity and complete a quality basic education. The kit will be used by union leaders and educators in the EFAIDS program in 35 countries around the world.
Building Long-Term Support for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs
Section 1, "Building a Program for Long-Term Survival" explains why early planning should focus on collaboration within the college community, strong commitment from top school administrators, an established long-range plan, objectives tied to the college’s mission, networking outside the college community, a system of program accountability, and the strategic use of public relations. Section 2, "Identifying Alternative Sources of Funding" discusses several components of successful grant-writing: developing a clear program concept, thinking like a marketer, working in partnership with the college development office, state and federal sources of prevention funding, and locating sources of information and assistance. Web sites for resources described in the publication can be accessed through links on the Center’s site.
This publication includes material originally published in 1995 as part of Institutionalizing Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs.
Building New Knowledge by Thinking: How Administrators Can Learn What They Need to Know About Mathematics Education Reform
The mathematics education reform movement is built on very different ideas about the nature of learning, teaching, and, indeed, mathematics itself, than the views that have prevailed in American schooling for many years. This has implications for administrative practice, since an enterprise that exists to support rigorous thinking on the part of students requires different administrative supports than one that exists to transmit accepted knowledge from teacher or textbook to student. Understanding new ideas about mathematics, learning, and teaching, and exploring the implications of these ideas for administrative practice, requires conceptual change on the part of many administrators. This paper describes the pedagogical principles that underlie a program designed to provide opportunities for such conceptual change for administrators.
Building Strong Public/Private Partnerships in Information Technology: A Cross-Cultural Primer
This guide will help educators and employers working in Information Technology School-to-Career partnerships understand the concept of organizational culture, recognize the common issues that interfere with partnership building, and implement strategies to build strong and successful educator/employer partnerships.
Campus and Community Coalitions in AOD Prevention
Changing the environment that affects decisions about alcohol and other drug use has emerged as a key to reducing substance use problems among college and university students. The student environment, however, is not limited to the campus. This four-page publication looks at the efforts and successes of many campus and community coalitions from all over the United States.
Campus MHAP: A Guide to Campus Mental Health Action Planning
The Jed Foundation and EDC developed this publication to helps college and university professionals develop a comprehensive plan to promote the mental health of their campus communities and support students who are struggling emotionally or are distressed.
Campus Sexual Assault: How America's Institutions of Higher Education Respond (Report to Congress)
In response to increasing concern about the high incidence rate of sexual assaults of young women while attending institutions of higher education (IHE), this Congressionally-mandated investigation comprehensively assesses the policies and procedures used by IHEs to prevent, respond to reports of, and adjudicate incidents of sexual assault. Findings are presented by issue and school type; research and policy recommendations are suggested.
Campuses and the Club Drug Ecstasy
This fact sheet—for alcohol and other drug (AOD) coordinators, task force members, campus and community coalitions, attorneys, campus security, police, and parents—looks at what ecstasy is, who is using it, where and why they are using it, the long- and short-term effects of use, implications for colleges and universities, and strategies for addressing availability and use.
Cars of Tomorrow and the American Community
A high school curriculum for investigating the impact of present-day transportation on communities and the possible effects of a shift to alternative-fueled vehicles. The unit provides guidelines for researching nine fuels in three major topic areas: availability and distribution; health, pollution, and safety; operation, maintenance, and refueling.
Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion: From Research to Practice
A growing body of research identifies strong links between children’s health, social, and educational outcomes; it also notes the reciprocal benefits of access to quality education on individual and family health status. In response to these findings, the World Health Organization developed the concept of the Health-Promoting School (HPS). Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion provides readers with examples from over two dozen countries (representing urban and rural areas in developing and developed nations) that outline the strategies taken to implement HPS programs in individual schools, municipalities, and nations. For each program, case study authors explain the problems they tackled, their motivation and supports to respond creatively; and the barriers they faced. In the cases, authors describe the capacities and infrastructure they created and mechanisms for cooperation; as well as the personnel, financial, and time requirements involved.
Casebook on School Reform
Each of the cases in this volume not only tells a story but also raises critical issues faced by teachers, administrators, and others striving to improve our schools. Together, the cases offer powerful opportunities for educators and others to analyze and reflect on the issues of school reform.
Catalyst: Higher Education Center Newsletter
Catalyst is the periodic online newsletter of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention. Catalyst provides information on research, promising practices, and trends in the areas of alcohol and other drug abuse and violence problem prevention on university and college campuses.
Celebration Ideas: Activities and Resources for Schools, Classrooms, and Families
National Inclusive Schools Week highlights and celebrates the progress of America's schools in providing a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse student population. Revised and expanded for 2005, Celebration Ideas: Activities and Resources for Schools, Classrooms, and Families is a booklet that includes ideas, resources, and lesson plans and activities to help communities and schools celebrate National Inclusive Schools Week.
Visit the National Inclusive Schools Week Web site for the most recent celebration guide.
Changing Cultures and Building Capacity: District Strategies for Implementation of Teacher Evaluation Systems Changing Cultures and Building Capacity: An Exploration of District Strategies for Implementation of Teacher Evaluation Systems
This investigation was designed to discover how districts are approaching the design and implementation of new evaluation systems and provide needed information that might help districts as they build evaluation systems that are responsive to policy, rigorous, and useful in supporting instructional improvement. The researchers sampled 16 districts in 11 states across the country that have embarked on significant efforts to implement more complex educator evaluation systems in line with the changing policy environment.
Characteristics of a Model for the Development of Mathematics Teaching
The current mathematics reform movement has recognized that new forms of mathematics teaching will be needed to support the proposed curricular changes. These new forms extend beyond the acquisition of new teaching techniques and strategies to the reconstitution of fundamental notions of teaching, learning, and the nature of mathematics as a discipline, and also to the creation of different classroom opportunities for learning. The means by which teachers effect this kind of transformation are, as yet, little understood. This paper describes a set of components of developmental models that can be used to guide efforts to build models of the process of teachers' development in mathematics practice. Drawing from theories of cognitive development, the paper focuses on three components of the change process: (1) qualitative reorganizations of understanding; (2) orderly progression of changes; and (3) the contexts and mechanisms by which transitions are effected; and suggests a fourth component-individual motivational and dispositional factors.
Child Care Quality Study: The Impact of Head Start Partnership on Child Care Quality (Final Report)
Recognizing the potential benefit of partnerships between child care and other early education programs, policymakers have supported partnerships at the point of service delivery, with the aim of meeting both the child development needs of young children and the workforce participation needs of their parents. This report conductsa rigorous investigation of the impact of one type of partnership—formal arrangements between child care providers, which primarily provide support for families’ workforce participation, and Head Start programs, which focus on children’s early development. It examines whether partnerships yield benefits for family child care providers, examines quality at the classroom level, and explores the relationship between partnership and children’s school readiness.
Child Care/ Head Start Partnerships Snapshot: Partnership Predicts Improved Classroom Quality
Brief overview of some of the initial findings of the Child Care Quality Study. This snapshot highlights the finding that partnership centers demonstrate higher overall quality and higher classroom quality than comparison centers.
Child Care/ Head Start Partnerships Snapshot: Teachers at Partnering Centers Report Benefits of Partnership
Brief overview of some of the initial findings in the final report. This snapshot focuses on teacher reported benefits of partnership.
Child Care/Head Start Partnership Study: Final Report Executive Summary
Summary of findings of a longitudinal quantitative research study investigating the impact of child care/Head Start partnerships on quality of care and parents access to services.
Child Care/Head Start Partnership Study: Final Report
Report of findings of a longitudinal quantitative research study investigating the impact of child care/Head Start partnerships on quality of care and parents access to services.
Choosing a Standards-Based Mathematics Curriculum
This guide describes a process for considering and reviewing standards-based mathematics programs and raises questions and issues for readers to consider in their own processes. The guide addresses curriculum selection and implementation and offers ideas to help districts work through both of these phases. Our focus for the selection phase is on assembling a selection committee, assessing resources and needs, and creating guidelines and criteria for evaluating different programs. The curriculum implementation section focuses on ways districts can work toward successful use of the materials they have purchased--
Choosing the Tools: A Review of Selected K--12 Health Education Curricula
The selection of appropriate curricula is essential to implementing effective school health instruction. Detailed summaries identify basic features of 13 nationally distributed curricula to assist educators in making these important decisions.
Also see: Educating for Health: A Guide to Implementing a Comprehensive Approach to School Health Education
Classic PSSC Physics Videos: The Set
Forty years ago, EDC began its tradition of ground-breaking curriculum development with PSSC Physics, a highly successful curriculum for high school students. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of EDC and PSSC Physics, we are re-releasing on videotape, remastered versions of some of the classic PSSC Physics films.
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CME Project
The CME Project is an innovative, National Science Foundation funded high school curriculum. It is wrapped around a familiar course sequence of Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Precalculus, and meets the dual goals of mathematical rigor and accessibility for all students. The CME Project achieves these goals through:
- Innovative, research-based instruction
- Problem-based, student-centered curriculum
- Engaging lessons that focus on developing students' Habits of Mind
- Accessible approach to capture and engage students of all ability levels
Collaboration in New Hampshire: A Look at Service Integration Between Early Head Start and Family-Centered Early Supports and Services
This publication offers guidance to early childhood programs, such as Head Start and their early intervention partners, as they refine their practices and systems in collaboration and partnership. This document explores how these programs support children and their families across systems by creatively implementing service integration strategies.
College Academic Performance and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
This Infofacts/Resources provides information on national studies' reports of repercussions of alcohol use that affect college and university students' academic success.
College Alcohol Risk Assessment Guide: Environmental Approaches to Prevention (CARA)
Designed to assist college administrators in identifying and changing factors within the campus environment that contribute to alcohol-related problems. Factors are examined within the context of the public health approach, which emphasizes ways in which the environment shapes behavior. A series of exercises are given to assist in identifying specific problems at a given college.
College Athletes and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
Although alcohol and other drug (AOD) use is antithetical to the aims of college athletics, the "culture of drinking" on campus is often attributed to peer groups such as college athletes. This Infofacts/Resources outlines the prevalence of AOD use among college athletes and related consequences and offers effective prevention strategies.
College Attorneys as Advocates for AOD Prevention (a Catalyst reprint)
Puts liability concerns of attorneys in perspective, explains how U.S. tort law concepts of duty complement the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA), and reviews the outcomes of recent federal and state cases.
Community College Presidents' Role in Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention
This 6-page Prevention Update is designed to guide presidents of community colleges and other senior administrators as they focus on AOD prevention. It reviews the challenges facing community colleges in reducing student substance use and the strengths the colleges draw on in addressing it. It introduces environmental management and lists several environmental management options appropriate to community colleges. The third section describes student assistance programs. The publication also includes 15 proposals for effective AOD prevention.
Complying with the Drug-Free Schools and Campuses Regulations (EDGAR Part 86): A Guide for University and College Administrators
This guide assists institutions of higher education (IHEs) in improving their prevention programs by looking at the Part 86 requirements, and how some IHEs have met them. The introduction presents the certification requirements IHEs must meet under the regulations and notes the consequences of failure to comply; it also provides information on meeting legal requirements not covered under Part 86 regulations. The subsequent chapters address each of the two general requirements of the Part 86 regulations. Chapter 2 outlines the requirements of the written annual notification and describes several formats that IHEs have used to present information required under the regulations to their students. Chapter 3 discusses the preparation of biennial reviews and provides excerpts from the reports of several IHEs. Appendices include a Part 86 Drug-Free Schools and Campuses Regulations compliance checklist as well as a listing of strategic objectives and tactics focused on environmental change, with its accompanying checklist.
Conference Proceedings: National Conference Addressing Issues Related to Celebratory Riots
In November 2003, The Ohio State University hosted a two-day conference on celebratory riots in Columbus Ohio. Co-sponsored by University of Minnesota and the U.S. Department of Justice, the meeting brought together multiple stakeholders to share research and experiences about the problem of campus riots and other disorderly behavior, and to discuss concrete strategies for preventing and addressing these disturbances. Participants from around the nation included university administrators, community members, students, city and state government officials, law enforcement personnel, and national organizations. This document is a summary of the conference proceedings.
Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra: Strategies for Building Algebraic Thinking in the Elementary Grades
Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra: Strategies for Building Algebraic Thinking in the Elementary Grades helps readers learn about a crucial component of algebraic thinking: investigating the behavior of the operations. The book describes how elementary teachers can shape their instruction so that students learn to: notice and describe consistencies across problems, articulate generalizations about the behavior of the operations, and develop mathematical arguments based on representations to explain why such generalizations are or are not true. Through such work, students become familiar with properties and general rules that underlie computational strategies—including those that form the basis of strategies used in algebra—strengthening their understanding of grade-level content and at the same time preparing them for future studies.
Connecting Generations, Strengthening Communities
This toolkit, created by the Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning and EDC's Health and Human Development Programs, is designed to increase awareness of the value of intergenerational strategies for both addressing individuals’ needs and strengthening communities, and to provide the knowledge and tools necessary to implement them. The toolkit is intended for health educators, human service providers, and community leaders working with community-based and government organizations serving youth, older adults, and/or families.
Connecting Social and Emotional Learning with Mental Health
This guide shows through research and example how social and emotional learning connects with mental health.
Connections and Commitments: A Latino-based Framework for Early Childhood Educators
This publication is organized around four values in Latino culture: familia (family), pertenencia (belonging), educación (education), and compromiso (commitment). The framework discusses the implications of these values on early childhood practice, and is intended to generate conversations among practitioners, trainers, and support systems about culturally and linguistically responsive practices for working with Latino families.
Connections and Commitments: Reflecting Latino Values in Early Childhood Programs
Connections and Commitments provides a framework that helps educators teach Latino students more responsively by focusing on four key values shared by many Latino cultures:
- Familia/Family: Forming true alliances with the family network
- Pertenencia/Belonging: Creating a sense of family and belonging in the classroom
- Educación/Education: Learning together
- Compromiso/Commitment: Taking the lead in changing professional development
Continued Smoking and Smoking Cessation Among Urban Young Adult Women: Findings From the Reach for Health Longitudinal Study (from American Journal of Public Health,97(8):1408-1411)
We examined smoking and smoking cessation among 538 young inner-city women who had been followed from early adolescence to young adulthood. Results showed that 14.3% of these young women had smoked in middle school, 26.4% had smoked in high school, and 21.9% had smoked at age 19 or 20 years, when many were rearing children, pregnant, or considering pregnancy. Young women who were raising children were more likely than those who were not to currently smoke or to have smoked in the past. Partner violence victimization was an independent risk factor for continued smoking. If improvements in smoking cessation rates are to be achieved, public health efforts must address factors underlying early and continued smoking.
Continuity of Care for Suicide Prevention and Research
This is a comprehensive report offering recommendations for the ongoing care of patients at risk for suicide who have been treated in emergency departments and hospitals. Based on an encyclopedic review and analysis of existing research, the 150-page report is the first review of continuity of care as a means to prevent suicide. The report includes ten principles for improved continuity of care, and provides real-world examples of seven integrated systems of care in the U.S. and Europe. Other key recommendations for practice and research address: targeting high-risk individuals; improving education and training for suicide risk assessment; responding to patients who have become disengaged from treatment; coordinating care; and improving infrastructure to provide continuity of care.
Creating a High-Standard, Inclusive and Authentic Certification Process
A selection from The Critical Link 3 edited by Louise Brunette, Georges Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin, Heather Clarke. This paper describes the efforts of the Massachusetts Medical Interpreters Association Certification Committee to develop and pilot a prototype of a tool to certify basic level competence in medical interpreting for the State of Massachusetts. The tool, the Medical Interpreting Assessment for Certificatyion, is described in detail and the underlying principles of assessment that were used in designing the tool are also discussed.
Critical Transitions: Human Capacity Development Across the Lifespan
Critical Transitions focuses on the vexingly difficult question: For developing countries, what is the most affordable, sustainable, and efficacious strategy for building the level of human capacity needed for individuals and nations to survive and thrive in the 21st century? Dr. Levinger draws on findings from such diverse fields as development economics, cognitive science, and futurology to propose a comprehensive model for human capacity development.
Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice: A Guide for K-8 Math Educators
Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice gives math leaders the tools to help teachers create quality math programs and bolster student achievement. Field-tested in a number of school districts nationwide, this concise guide presents authentic accounts of coaching practice, dilemmas, and insights. The cases, written by practicing math coaches, emphasize developing a deep understanding of mathematics, analyzing students' ideas and teachers' beliefs about learning, and cultivating teacher learning and growth. The guide provides:
- Math activities that strengthen a coach's math content knowledge
- Planning activities to support thoughtful coach-teacher interactions
- A detailed facilitator's guide for staff developers leading professional development opportunities for math coaches, providing a detailed agenda, specific examples of participants' questions, and facilitator responses
Cultural and Linguistic Competency Toolkit
This toolkit is based on a model of three interconnected arches that represent organizational structure, engagement, and services/activities/interventions and was developed for SS/HS grantees. The toolkit includes benchmarks that grantees can use to gauge their level of implementation in each of the three areas. It also includes corresponding resources that grantees can use to move their initiatives to the next level of implementation.
Curriculum Summaries (Eighth Edition)
This publication compiles information about 12 comprehensive mathematics curriculum programs. It includes information that will help reader understand the basic tenets of each of the programs, what distinguishes them from traditional curricula, and what distinguishes them from one another. The publication also incorporates information that will help readers learn more about these programs, through contact with the publishers, developers, or implementation centers; through print materials; or through Web sites.
Customized Information Series
A series of Web pages geared for specific audiences, such as physicians, college students, clergy, and law enforcement personnel. The pages contain information on recognizing and responding to warning signs, and include resource materials, such as programs, useful websites and further reading for that population.
Data-Driven Prevention Planning Model
This chart and corresponding text outlines the five steps of a suicide prevention planning model. The model assumes that a broad-based coalition has been formed and is sufficiently organized to support the infrastructure for this plan.
Data-Driven School Improvement: Linking Data and Learning
With federal and local demands for increased accountability, educators at all levels are now expected to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to be effective data users and decision makers. This book brings together stakeholders representing a variety of perspectives to explore how educators actually use data and technology tools to achieve lasting improvement in student performance. The first comprehensive examination of the field, this volume introduces the history of testing and data use, explores current practices and tools, and presents a groundbreaking model for data-driven decision making.
Book Features:
- A valuable framework, based on a three-year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, describing how data are transformed into usable knowledge. Informative case studies illustrating how schools are using data to inform best practice.
- Suggestions for how digital resources can be used to improve teaching in the classroom.
- A thought-provoking treatise on educational reform from the state perspective.
Part of the Technology, Education--Connections (TEC) Series developed in association with EDC's Center for Children and Technology
Decisions Near the End of Life: Annotated Bibliography on 10 Topics in End-of-Life Care
Originally developed as part of the curriculum materials for Decisions Near the End of Life, the Annotated Biblography consists of overview essays and annotated citations and resources on 10 topics, including Accommodating Religious and Cultural Diversity, Addressing Concerns about the Law, Advance Planning, Caring for the Dying, Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders, Forgoing Medically Supplied Nutrition and Hydration, Futility, Managed Care, Surrogate Decision Masking, and Utilization of Intensive Care Units.
Decisions Near the End of Life: Modules 1-7
The 7 modules were originally developed as part of the curriculum materials Decisions Near the End of Life, a national institution-based, multidisciplinary continuing medical education program designed to assist clinicians in making more humane and rational decisions about the care of dying patients and their families. Each module, presented in magazine form, includes essays by leading experts on ethics, law and end-of-life care. Titles include Working with the Law, Planning with Patients, Weighing Benefits and Burdens, Patients without Decision-Making Capacity, Problem Solving in Hard Cases, and Futility.
Depression, Anxiety, and Alcohol or Other Drug Use among College Students
Community studies and reports from clinicians reveal that significant numbers of students on U.S. college campuses suffer from depression and/or anxiety and use alcohol or other drugs (AOD). This publication addresses the need for an integrated approach to mental health problems and AOD use on U.S. college and university campuses, identifies barriers that prevent the achievement of such an approach, and offers recommendations to overcome these barriers.
Design It! Engineering in After School Programs
A series of 14 design engineering booklets that include student and teacher guidance for implementing long-term activities such as designing a pinball game or building a trebuchet. The projects were developed for 8-12 year olds in after school programs.
Designing Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs in Higher Education: Bringing Theory into Practice
The six papers included in this volume discuss theories and models of prevention as well as possible application of those approaches. The papers are as follows: "A Social Role Negotiation Approach to Campus Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems"; "The Web of Caring: An Approach to Accountability in Alcohol Policy"; "An Integrated Theoretical Framework for Individual Responsibility and Institutional Leadership in Preventing Alcohol and Drug Abuse on the College Campus"; "A Social Ecology Theory of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention among College and University Students"; "College Student Misperceptions of Alcohol and Other Drug Norms among Peers: Exploring Causes, Consequences, and Implications for Prevention Programs"; and "Institutional Factors Influencing the Success of Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Programs."
Developing Algebraic Thinking in the Context of Arithmetic
A chapter from Early Algebraization: A Global Dialogue from Multiple Perspectives edited by Jinfa Cai and Eric Knuth
From our work with elementary and middle grade teachers, the authors of this chapter have identified four mathematical activities that underlie both arithmetic and algebra and, therefore, provide a bridge between the two. These are:
- understanding the behavior of the operations,
- generalizing and justifying,
- extending the number system, and
- using notation with meaning.
These themes emerge from content at the heart of the elementary mathematics program and can be highlighted and pursued by teachers who learn to recognize the opportunities that arise in their classrooms. Focusing on these aspects of arithmetic addresses two major goals: (1) It enables students to grow from arithmetic towards algebra, and (2) it strengthens their understanding of arithmetic operations and contributes to computational fluency.
This chapter is based on research on early algebra carried out in the context of several projects that focused on developing curriculum for students and professional development materials for teachers. In collaboration with teachers in grades K-8, we have been investigating how students articulate, represent, and justify general claims about the operations. In this chapter, we describe classroom episodes that illustrate how teachers can recognize the implicit generalizations that arise in the course of students’ study of arithmetic and make them explicit objects of study for their students.
Developing Alliances to Improve Health and Education: Reflections of Leaders from EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs
This monograph highlights EDC's Health and Human Development Programs (HHD) key strategies for developing and sustaining alliances. The monograph reflects the insights shared by six of HHD's project directors in response to the question, “What are the successful strategies to create, manage, and sustain alliances (or coalitions) of partnering organizations to address a major public health or education issue?”
Developing an Effective Tool for Teaching Teens about Workplace Safety; American Journal of Health Education 34(5):S-30
When the project described in this article began, there were few curricula for teaching teens basic occupational safety information, and there was little research on the most effective way to deliver this information. Project staff sought to fill these gaps in resources and knowledge. They conducted formative research to determine teen knowledge and attitudes about workplace safety and about child labor laws, teens’ comfort with voicing concerns at work, and the type of training they received. Staff also interviewed educators and pilot-tested a draft curriculum to determine format and content appropriate to trainers’ time constraints and levels of knowledge. In response to the findings, project staff developed curricula with activities addressing hazards in workplaces, prevention strategies, child labor laws, and how to communicate effectively about workplace concerns.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Building a System of Tens
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K-8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—nto mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
In this module, participants explore the base-ten structure of the number system, consider how that structure is exploited in multi-digit computational procedures, and examine how basic concepts of whole numbers reappear when working with decimals.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Examining Features of Shapes
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K–8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
In this module, participants examine aspects of 2D and 3D shapes, develop geometric vocabulary, and explore both definitions and properties of geometric objects. The seminar includes a study of angle, similarity, congruence, and the relationships between 3D objects and their 2D representations.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Making Meaning of Operations
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K-8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry--into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
In this module, participants examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. The seminar begins with a view of young children's counting strategies as they encounter word problems, moves to an examination of the four basic operations on whole numbers, and revisits the operations in the context of rational numbers.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Measuring Space in One, Two and Three Dimensions
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K–8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
In this module, participants examine different attributes of size, develop facility in composing and decomposing shapes, and apply these skills to make sense of formulas for area and volume. They also explore conceptual issues of length, area, and volume, as well as their complex inter-relationships.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Patterns, Function, and Change
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K–8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
In this module, discover how the study of repeating patterns and number sequences can lead to ideas of functions, learn how to read tables and graphs to interpret phenomena of change, and use algebraic notation to write function rules.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Reasoning Algebraically about Operations
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K-8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry--into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
This module is intended to help teachers explore methods by which students work with numbers to formulate generalizations about operations. By expanding students understanding of the properties that underlie the number systems introduced in the elementary grades, they will be prepared to think algebraically for success in middle school and beyond.
Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Working with Data
Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K–8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.
In this module, participants work with the collection, representation, description, and interpretation of data. They learn what various graphs and statistical measures show about features of the data, study how to summarize data when comparing groups, and consider whether the data provide insight into the questions that led to data collection.
Developing Strategic Leadership for District-wide Improvement of Mathematics Education
The authors present a strategic game plan for leaders to employ to improve their effectiveness. Strategic actions described include articulating the vision, garnering support from key stakeholders, aligning policy with the vision, designing and implementing interventions, and scaling up interventions while maintaining their quality. Included are recommendations of ways that leaders can help ensure the success of their strategic actions.
Developing the "Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region": A Companion to the Database
This report provides state-, regional-, and district-level decision makers in the Northeast and Islands Region with a description of the Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region, a searchable database of selected profiles of retention strategies implemented in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
Developing Traffic Safety Education Materials for Spanish-Speakers
Traffic injury is the leading cause of death and a leading cause of injury among Latino children and young adults. Educación de Seguridad en el Tránsito (EST) [Education in Traffic Safety] was a two-year project that addressed the high rate of traffic-related injuries among native Spanish speakers. The project was designed to foster the development of effective educational materials in Spanish. It was conducted by EDC with the support of three partners: the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAAFTS), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society. This report presents results on the project’s four objectives: 1) collect and describe existing Spanish-language traffic safety educational materials; 2) develop guidelines for creating culturally and linguistically appropriate educational materials for Latinos; 3) use the guidelines to develop a model educational item; 4) develop a Web site that contains the guidelines and traffic safety resources for Spanish-speaking audiences.
Digging into Data with TinkerPlots™
Developed with National Science Foundation funding and aligned with standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Digging into Data with TinkerPlots helps students in grades 6–8 learn essential data-analysis concepts and skills. The inquiry-based lessons use the power of TinkerPlots™ Dynamic Data Exploration software combined with real-word data sets to engage students in:
- Making conjectures
- Creating and interpreting graphical representations
- Writing evidence-based conclusions
Digging into Data with TinkerPlots builds students' understandings of key data-analysis concepts, processes, and skills—addressing the standards with depth and rigor.
Digital Education: Opportunities for Social Collaboration
This timely collection of theoretical and applied studies examines the pedagogical potential and realities of digital technologies in a wide range of disciplinary contexts across the educational spectrum. By mixing content-based chapters with a theoretical perspective with case studies detailing actual teaching approaches utilizing digital technologies in the classroom or on campus, this work provides a valuable resource for teacher trainers, academic researchers, administrators, and students interested in interdisciplinary studies of education and learning technologies from around the world.
Features the chapter "The Wisdom of Practice": Web 2.0 as a Cognitive and Community-Building Tool in Indonesia by Mary Burns and Petra Wiyakti Bodrogini.
Disasters and the Aftermath: Building Life Skills for Health and Education (Young People's Forum Final Report)
This report includes the outcomes of the Young People's Lifeskills Forum that took place in Bangkok, Thailand in May 2007. Natural disaster survivors from Indonesia, Thailand, and Pakistan gathered together for one week to learn from each other's experiences and bring back key skills to improve preparedness in their home communities.
Discharge Planning for the Elderly: An Educational Program for Nurses
Taking into account the multiple needs of very frail elderly patients, this book is based on the premise that nurses, along with other members of the health care team, should be involved in the discharge planning process from the first day of hospitalization. With case material and other exercises, the book provides material for continuing education seminars for nurses.
Discover IDEA CD 2000
Discover IDEA CD 2000 includes the complete text of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 97) law and regulations in a fully searchable hyperlinked format. The CD contains interpretive briefs and summaries prepared by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs, hundreds of training overheads, and other materials to help users understand and implement IDEA.
Distance Education for Teacher Training: Modes, Models, and Methods
Distance Education for Teacher Training: Modes, Models, and Methods builds on EDC’s extensive international and domestic experience in the field of distance education and gathers research and lessons learned from numerous programs in over 100 nations and territories to help distance education policymakers, planners and designers develop distance education systems focused on producing high-quality teachers. The publication focuses on the following areas:
- modes of distance education—types of distance-based delivery systems and their strengths and weaknesses from print to digital gaming to online learning to mobile technologies
- models of distance education for teacher training programs—actual examples of various programs from each continent
- methods or best practices necessary to develop a high-quality distance education program
Districts Developing Leaders: Lessons on Consumer Actions and Program Approaches from Eight Urban Districts
Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, this study explores the investments of eight urban school districts in school leadership preparation, with a specific focus on the different approaches that they took, the role that local universities played, and the perceptions of district officials about program effectiveness based on graduates’ performance as new school leaders.
Domestic Violence Awareness Program: Facilitator’s Guide
The Facilitator’s Guide illustrates how a school-based facilitator can lead an elementary school community through a collaborative planning process to develop and implement a customized plan for identifying and supporting students exposed to domestic violence.
Draft:Builder®
Draft:Builder® leads students through the three key steps in creating a first draft: organizing ideas, taking notes and writing the draft. It models the logical, progressive steps of draft-writing and displays a visual representation of the process. The display gives students a framework to generate, manipulate and connect ideas and information. The result? Students are less overwhelmed, more organized and able to produce a high-quality first draft.
Developed under a grant from the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, Grant #H180T70076
Drinking, Drugs, and Choosing a College
Although heavy drinking and other drug use may sometimes seem to be a central part of the campus culture, many campuses offer opportunities for students to have fun without relying on alcohol and other drugs as the source of entertainment. This one-page flyer provides high school seniors and juniors with information on what to look for and questions to ask to find out how much drinking and other drug use is happening on campuses.
E Codes: The Missing Link in Injury Prevention
A brochure designed to help state and local agencies understand the importance of E codes (external cause of injury codes), advocate for their inclusion within hospital discharge data, and help improve the availability of injury morbidity data.
E-Government for All: Ensuring Equitable Access to Online Government Services
E-Government for All: Ensuring Equitable Access to Online Government Services, published by EDC’s Center for Media and Community (CMC) and the NYS Forum of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, reviews challenges and opportunities for achieving equitable public access to e-government. Obstacles include reading levels of government documents, accessibility of government websites, and user unfriendliness of e-government online resources. The document outlines measures that can be taken to realize the potential of e-government.
Early Care and Education Partnerships: State Actions and Local Lessons (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Summarizes the qualitative research findings provided in a comprehensive report about the nature of partnerships among child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten providers.
Early Care and Education Partnerships: State Actions and Local Lessons
Explores different ways states and local early education programs have used funding and resources from a combination of child care, Head Start, and pre-Kindergarten to improve early care and education services.
Early Childhood Programming in Developing Countries: Some Policy Considerations
Giving special attention to the implications for developing countries, this report discusses the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development of children from the prenatal stage though elementary-school age. It then identifies features of early childhood programs that enable or inhibit children's development. Finally, it analyzes and presents findings from several early childhood programs.
Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO) Toolkit
Offers tools that early childhood administrators can use to gather crucial data to strengthen classroom quality and build better literacy programs.
Early Sexual Initiation and Subsequent Sex-Related Risks Among Urban Minority Youth: The Reach for Health Middle to High School Study. (from Family Planning Perspectives, 33(6): 268-75)
CONTEXT: Since the 1980s, the age at which U.S. teenagers, especially minority youth, begin having sex has decreased. There is limited information on the relationship between early sexual initiation and subsequent risky sexual behaviors. METHODS: A sample of 1,287 urban minority adolescents completed three surveys in seventh and eighth grade, and 970 completed a follow-up in 10th grade. Logistic regression was used to test the effects of timing of initiation on 10th-grade sexual behaviors and risks, adjusting for gender, ethnicity and age. RESULTS: At baseline, 31% of males and 8% of females reported sexual initiation; by the 10th grade, these figures were 66% and 52%, respectively. Recent intercourse among males increased from 20% at baseline to 39% in eighth grade; 54% reported recent sex and 6% had made a partner pregnant by 10th grade. Among females, recent intercourse tripled from baseline to eighth grade (5% to 15%); 42% reported recent sex and 12% had been pregnant by grade 10. Early initiators had an increased likelihood of having had multiple sex partners, been involved in a pregnancy, forced a partner to have sex, had frequent intercourse and had sex while drunk or high. There were significant gender differences for all outcomes except frequency of intercourse and being drunk or high during sex. CONCLUSIONS:Minority adolescents who initiate sexual activity early engage in behaviors that place them at high risk for negative health outcomes. It is important to involve parents and schools in prevention efforts that address sexual initiation in early adolescence and that target youth who continue to place themselves and their partners at risk.
Education For All 2000 Assessment: Thematic Study on School Health and Nutrition
This document reviews what has happened in the field of school health and nutrition in the 1990s, identifies strategies and interventions that have proven effective, and suggests actions for the decade to come. This study also explores conceptual frameworks in school health and nutrition that developed during the 1990s, including the framework of the Health-Promoting School and the FRESH framework, and reviews regional trends, activities and barriers for school health.
Education for All Youth Challenge Grant (EFA): City Year in South Africa
This report summarizes the lessons from a fairly small-scale effort to adapt a very successful U.S.-based model for service-learning to the challenging circumstances of South Africa. Seen through a lens of the dramatic need for better prepared young workers in this country, the project represented a shift in emphasis for the City Year model. The report examines the process of adapting the project mission to the context, and reflects on the challenge of balancing "fidelity to the (original) model" with the demands of a new economic and social context.
Education for All Youth Challenge Grant (EFA): Engaging Young Men in Jamaica's Urban Areas
This report focuses on a growing population of young men who are out of school and unemployed, and at rist of or engaged in gang activity or violent behavior. Working with a small sub-set of about 80 young men in the Grants Pen community within Kingston, the project achieved modest but demonstrable success in improving literacy and numeracy, and building employment and livelihood skills through music and aquatic activity. The report summarizes practical lessons learned regarding project design, preparation of the community, implementation, and direct implementation for similar youth projects that focus on young men living in environments with high levels of violence.
Education for All Youth Challenge Grant (EFA): Sports for Youth Development Uganda
This report summarizes the lessons from a fairly small-scale effort in two regions of Uganda—Lira and Kumi—to use sports as a means of engaging young people in education, healthy living, and peacebuilding in these post-conflict regions. In particular, the project sought partnership with a local non-governmental organization, The Kids League (TKL), in an effort to document the life of the project, and to establish a system for monitoring and evaluation of this and similar asset-based approaches to youth development. This document speaks about the project's lessons learned in tracking youth developmental assets throughout the project as a way to monitor and document a holistic youth intervention.
Education in Fragile Contexts: Selected Case Studies
Education in Fragile Contexts highlights selected projects that EDC has carried out in fragile environments. These successful initiatives, exemplary of strategies that EDC has employed in a range of fragile and less-developed contexts, can be instructive as the international community continues to support fragile states in their efforts toward peace and security.
Each of the cases briefly describes the fragile context, the project’s strategy and activities, special measures taken to operate securely and efficiently, and evidence of success.
Educational Quality in Islamic Schools, Report #1: Nigeria
Islamiyyah schools are distinctive entities in Nigeria that provide both religious and secular instruction to over a million children. In a report written under the Educational Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP) Initiative, EDC assesses the basic characteristics and predominant instructional practices of these schools in three states of Nigeria.
Effective Access: Teachers’ Use of Digital Resources in STEM Teaching
EDC's Gender, Diversities, and Technology Institute released a report culminating three years of research on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators' use of digital resources. The project, funded as a part of the National Science Foundation’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program, focused on high school STEM educators as an important and broad subset, as high school STEM remains a priority of education reform in the United States.
Read a feature article about this publication: http://main.edc.org/newsroom/features/effective.asp
Download a a free PDF copy of Effective Access: Teachers’ Use of Digital Resources in STEM Teaching (Adobe Acrobat required): http://www2.edc.org/GDI/publications_SR/EffectiveAccessReport.pdf
Effective Hiring Practices: A Look at Attitudes, Personality, and Skills
This guide offers early childhood managers suggestions for recruiting and hiring teachers who not only fit the job description but also possess characteristics that are crucial to providing quality services to children and families.
Effective Teacher Leadership: Using Research to Inform and Reform
Featuring a diverse and distinguished group of scholars, this volume provides a much-needed, research-based analysis of nonsupervisory, school-based, instructional leadership. Frequently referred to as teacher leaders, specialists, or coaches, these new positions have the potential to provide teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary for continued instructional improvement and, ultimately, enhanced student learning. This authoritative collection presents both qualitative and quantitative evidence on the enactment, design, conditions, constraints, and successes of this type of instructional leadership. Offering important lessons for the improvement of policy and practice, this book:
- Presents new conceptual frameworks to unify a divergent field and to create deeper understandings of teacher leadership role designs and functions.
- Looks at the functions performed by nonsupervisory instructional teacher leaders as well as the supports and barriers to role enactment.
- Examines the organizational contexts of teacher leadership, including formal and informal networks, communication structures, and social influence relationships.
Effective Treatment for Drug-Involved Offenders: A Review and Synthesis for Judges and Court Personnel
Drug-involved offenders appear in ever-increasing numbers before the criminal courts. This guide, originally designed to accompany a training workshop, also serves as a benchbook for judges and others who make decisions concerning these offenders.
EI/WHO Training and Resource Manual on School Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention
This comprehensive training manual, developed by EDC for EI and WHO, contains participatory learning activities, factsheets about AIDS, an overview of skills-based health education and life skills, and many other resources. Together, these tools can strengthen teaching and advocacy skills of teachers and trade union leaders.
El Odio Se Cura (English version: Healing the Hate)
Este programa es la adaptaci¢n y traducci¢n en espa¤ol de Healing the Hate: A National Bias Crime Prevention Curriculum for Middle Schools. Dise¤ado con el pr¢posito de ser utilizado en las escuelas intermedias y en organizaciones juveniles, este programa trata sobre el aumento y la propagaci¢n de los cr¡menes de odio en los Estados Unidos y presenta estrategias para reducir tales cr¡menes entre los j¢venes. Este programa de nueve unidades es flexible y est basado en los siguientes principios, entre otros:
- La violencia y el prejuicio son conductas aprendidas, por lo tanto son prevenibles.
- El desarrollo de destrezas de pensamiento cr¡tico es fundamental para responder y prevenir los cr¡menes de odio.
ELLCO: Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation Tool (New Edition)
Trusted by schools across the country, ELLCO helps build better literacy programs by assessing the quality of both the classroom environment and teachers' practices. With ELLCO, educators reliably gather the essential data needed for professional development and program improvement that lead to better literacy outcomes for young children.
Enforcing the Minimum Age Drinking Law: A Survey of College Administrators and Security Chiefs
A detailed examination of how rules against underage drinking are currently enforced reveals that school administrators and security officials are missing key opportunities for more effective action to enforce the minimum age drinking age. This bulletin looks at the implications for college administrators and offers three recommendations for creating a safe environment in which all students can prepare for their futures.
Engaging School Administrators
This is a guide to support Safe Schools/Healthy Students project directors as they form partnerships with school administrators to implement SS/HS project activities in schools. Drawing on lessons learned from SS/HS implementation sites, this guide provides project directors with strategies that can be used to engage school administrators and enhance their commitment to the SS/HS initiative.
Engaging the Nation’s Community Colleges as Prevention Partners
This publication gives a brief report of the Roundtable on Community College Health and Safety: Preventing Substance Abuse and Violence, cosponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges and the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center. Community college representatives discussed alcohol, other drug, and violence problems at community colleges, how to engage top administrators, needed resources, and information about best practices. Concerns for further exploration included high school to campus transition, consequences of open enrollment policies, implications of a part-time student body, relationship violence, community colleges and the prevention workforce, student leadership opportunities, and intervention models.
Ensuring Quality: Ministry of Education and NGOs Responding to the AIDS Pandemic
To respond to HIV and AIDS, Ministries of Education in the Caribbean, have found they can benefit considerably from structured partnerships with international, national, and community-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This tool assists Ministries of Education in developing quality assurance procedures as they coordinate with NGOs and local schools to implement a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS.
Environmental Management: A Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Use on College Campuses
Environmental Management articulates the philosophy of the Higher Education Center and presents a comprehensive strategy based on lessons learned from prevention research, public health, and case law. It examines the three spheres of action in which to work for environmental change: the campus task force, the campus and community coalition, and associations of higher education officials, especially college presidents. The conceptual framework is designed to help college officials understand the wisdom of broadening their approach beyond traditional prevention programs to include a range of strategies for changing the campus and community environment in which students make decisions about drinking and other drug use.
Environmental Management: An Approach to Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
This Prevention Update provides alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention staff and administrators with a quick introduction to the Center's environmental management approach to AOD prevention. It describes five primary strategies for achieving environmental change, each designed to address a problem area that contributes to AOD use in a typical campus environment. The strategies are (1) offer alcohol-free social, extracurricular, and public service options; (2) create a health-promoting normative environment; (3) restrict the marketing and promotion of alcoholic beverages both on and off campus; (4) limit alcohol availability; and (5) increase enforcement of laws and policies.
Environmental Strategies to Prevent Alcohol Problems on College Campuses
Prepared by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) in support of the OJJDP Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program, this publication describes environmental strategies that focus on changing campus and community conditions that promote substance use among students at institutions of higher education. Distributed with permission from PIRE.
Ephedra and Energy Drinks on Colleges Campuses
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned ephedra as an energy enhancer and diet aid, effective 12 April 2004. Before being banned, ephedra was marketed largely to college athletes. This Infofacts/Resources provides background on the ban and also describes the use of ephedra and energy drinks on college campuses, possible effects of their use, and recommendations for institutions of higher education.
Epistemological Considerations in Teaching Introductory Physics
Epistemological beliefs are about knowledge and learning. In a physics class, for example, some students might believe learning consists of memorizing facts and formulas provided by the teacher, whereas others might believe it entails applying and modifying their conceptualizations of phenomena. This paper explores, in the context of a debate about velocity from the author's high school physics class, how an epistemological perspective on students' knowledge and reasoning might influence a teacher's perceptions and intentions.
EQUIP3 Lessons Learned (2003-2012): Experiences in Livelihoods, Literacy, and Leadership in Youth Programs in 26 Countries
The Educational Quality Improvement Program 3 (EQUIP3), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), was designed to improve earning, learning, and skill development opportunities for out-of-school youth in developing countries. EQUIP3 was one of three USAID-funded EQUIP programs that promoted improved educational quality in countries around the world, in partnership with USAID, a consortium of international partner organizations, and host country public and private institutions.
Equity in On-line Professional Development
This publication provides guidelines for effective and equitable course design, facilitation, and interactions. By bringing together effective strategies for equitable instruction in traditional education settings with the challenges of the emerging virtual classroom, Equity in On-line Professional Development, offers a framework for effective e-learning for everyone.
Evaluating Environmental Management Approaches to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention
This 6-page Prevention Update is designed to orient college and university administrators who are interested in learning how to evaluate prevention programs based on the environmental management approach. It looks at five steps of the evaluation process: (1) describing the intervention, (2) identifying process measures, (3) identifying outcome measures, (4) selecting a research design, and (5) utilizing the results. It also provides a sample logic model to help outline how the evaluation will work.
Evaluation of the Jordan Education Initiative
The Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) was created in 2003, with the assistance of the World Economic Forum to leverage public-private partnerships to improve the application of information and communication technology (ICT) in grades 1–12 in Jordanian schools. EDC and Research Triangle International (RTI) were asked to conduct a four-part evaluation of JEI program strategy and implementation. The objectives of this synthesis report are to summarize the findings from all four task reports and to provide the JEI and its partners with a comprehensive set of recommendations for building achievements to date and increasing the program's impact on improved learning in Jordan.
Evaluation of the Step by Step Program
An evaluation of Step by Step, an early childhood development program designed to promote learning and encourage democratic behaviors among children and their families in four newly independent countries.
Evaluation Research References for Non-Researchers: An Annotated Bibliography
A bibliography of selected resources on evaluation concepts for practitioners.
Evaluation Resources
A list of resources related to program evaluation, including book titles, online courses, toolkits, and evaluator directories.
Examining Mathematics Practice through Classroom Artifacts
Examining Mathematics Practice through Classroom Artifacts helps teachers become more analytic about their students' thinking by showing them how to use student artifacts to evaluate what is happening in the classroom. Focusing on elementary through middle grades, chapters investigate what classroom artifacts are, how to interpret them and ways to use this data to improve mathematics instruction.
Examining the Behavior of the Operations: Noticing Early Algebraic Ideas (A chapter from Mathematics Teacher Noticing)
The book Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes, examines research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers—how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. "Examining the Behavior of the Operations: Noticing Early Algebraic Ideas," a chapter in this book, presents the case of a third-grade teacher to illustrate noticing of algebraic content in the curriculum and in students' mathematical ideas. The chapter demonstrates how teachers' knowledge, values, and goals shape their professional noticing.
Excessive Drinking on America’s College Campuses: A Report from Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Senator Biden's report reviews the prevalence of heavy drinking on campus, its consequences, the best ways to address the problem, including environmental approaches, and how national, state, and local policies should address heavy drinking at U.S. colleges and universities.
Experiences in Effective Prevention: The U.S. Department of Education’s Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses Grants
Since 1999, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools has recognized effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention programs at college and university campuses across the nation. In grant competitions held in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2004, the Department identified model programs at 22 institutions of higher education. Each campus received an award to maintain, improve, further enhance, and evaluate its prevention efforts and to disseminate information about its program to other campuses.
To capture the experiences of these colleges and universities, the Department’s Higher Education Center staff and consultants visited those grantees, interviewing program staff, faculty, administrators, students, and community members to learn what contributed to the success of the model program or policy.
This publication reviews and synthesizes information gained from the site visits to identify the characteristics that are common to model programs that can be adapted for other campuses.
Explore It! Science Investigations in Out-of-School Programs
The investigations in Explore It! provide an experiential foundation for the development of concepts aligned with the national standards that are addressed in formal school curricula. Internet resources and visits by science museum educators will supplement and extend the implementation of the new curriculum.
Exploring Bioethics
Exploring Bioethics gives students an opportunity to grapple with some of the most challenging and engaging ethical issues our society is facing as a consequence of advances in the life science. It was designed to complement existing high school biology curricula and to align with the National Science Education Standards. The program includes introductory materials and six modules:
- Bioethics Concepts and Skills
- Balancing Individual and Community Claims: Establishing State Vaccination Policies
- Allocating Scarce Resources: The Case of Organ Transplantation
- Weighing Benefits and Harms: Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing
- Research Ethics: The Power and Peril of Human Experimentation
- Modifying the Natural World: Human Responsibilities toward Animals
Exploring Classroom Assessment in Mathematics
This book, a guide for the design of professional development with a focus on classroom assessment in mathematics, describes ideas developed in the Assessment Communities of Teachers project, in which EDC worked with middle-grades teacher leaders in Dayton, Memphis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Diego, and San Francisco.
Exploring Humanitarian Law - EHL: Educational Modules for Young People
Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) is a multimedia program designed to introduce youth (age 13 - 18) worldwide to the spirit and principles of international humanitarian law. EHL modules provide thirty hours of classroom "explorations" that use active learning techniques. The program was pilot tested internationally; it is available in 15 languages with full translations in 23 languages scheduled by the end of 2003. Materials are designed for use in both school and non-formal education sites. The program includes materials for national ministries of education, administrators, and teachers, and provides help with fitting the program into the national secondary school curriculum framework, other implementation and adaptation issues, and teacher training and workshops in participatory learning techniques. The program includes a videotape for learners which is a set of clips exploring the experience of war, and a videotape for teachers which shows classroom use of the materials in the pilot sites.
Eyes on Bullying . . . What Can You Do?: A Toolkit to Prevent Bullying in Children’s Lives
Successful bullying prevention includes education, preparation, and teamwork. This toolkit provides specific insights, strategies, activities, and resources to address bullying. It is designed especially for caregivers and parents of preschool and school-age children and youth to use in child care programs, afterschool and youth programs, and camps.
This toolkit will help you:
- Understand the extent, seriousness, and dynamics of bullying
- Recognize and respond early and effectively to behaviors that can lead to bullying
- Learn about new, effective strategies for controlling bullying
- Prepare children to recognize and respond effectively to early bullying behavior
- Teach children how everyone—bullies, victims, bystanders, and supportive adults—can help control bullying
- Create an environment where everyone understands that bullying behaviors are unacceptable, harmful, and preventable
- Empower yourself and children to actively intervene to prevent and stop bullying
Facilitator’s Guide for Ways to Think About Mathematics
The Facilitator’s Guide for Ways to Think About Mathematics will provide staff developers, preservice educators, and math department chairs with all the necessary tools to provide high-quality staff development in secondary mathematics. The materials were funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a wide variety of professional development and preservice settings.
Faculty Involvement in AOD Prevention
Although alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention has not been seen as part of the traditional faculty role, faculty involvement is vital to the success of alcohol and other drug prevention efforts on campus. This Prevention Update looks at eight ways faculty can get involved in these efforts, which in turn would allow them to be more effective in their role as educators.
Faculty Leadership in Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in Higher Education: Proceedings Report of the Symposium Held at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, July 17–19, 1997
In July 1997 the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, convened an invitational faculty leadership symposium on preventing alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems in higher education. The symposium, held at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, brought together 40 participants, including faculty, student leaders, administrators, and Center staff. The report highlights the variety of thoughts and contributions offered on such topics as faculty as leaders in campus-based AOD prevention initiatives: faculty roles in raising public discussions, increasing faculty-student interaction, conducting campus-based research, restructuring academic requirements, creating a bridge between academic affairs and student affairs, using technology to teach prevention, and linking university resources with the community.
Feynman Lecture The Series (7 Videos)
This series of seven Messenger Lectures by Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Richard Feynman was recorded in 1964 at Cornell University by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Lecture No.1: The Law of Gravitation
Lecture No.2: The Relation of Mathematics to Physics
Lecture No.3: The Great Conservation Principles
Lecture No.4: Symmetry in Physical Law
Lecture No.5: The Distinction of Past and Future
Lecture No.6: Probability & Uncertainty - The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature
Lecture No.7: Seeking New Laws
NOTE: The videos are no longer available from EDC. Please contact Customer Service for information on purchasing the videos.
Finding Funding for Injury and Violence Prevention
A set of information sheets designed to help injury and violence prevention programs find additional funding. Sheets address topics such as "Maximizing State Public Health Resources," "Approaching Foundations," and "Accessing Resources Unique to Your State."
First National Conference for Survivors of Suicide Attempts, Health Care Professionals, and Clergy and Laity: Summary of Workgroup Reports
This report from an October 2005 meeting led by the Organization of Attempters and Survivors of Suicide in Interfaith Services and the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA contains recommendations from participants on issues related to suicide attempts and the needs of suicide attempt survivors.
Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy
This report describes efforts by five states—Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—to improve adolescent literacy. Highlighting common challenges and lessons, the report examines how each state has engaged key stakeholders, set rigorous goals and standards, aligned resources to support adolescent literacy goals, built educator capacity, and used data to measure progress.
Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Algebra
Reasoning about and making sense of algebra are essential to students’ future success. This book examines the five key elements (meaningful use of symbols, mindful manipulation, reasoned solving, connection algebra with geometry, and linking expressions and functions) identified in Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in more detail and elaborates on the associated reasoning habits.
This volume is one of a series of books that support NCTM’s Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making by providing additional guidance for making reasoning and sense making part of the mathematics experiences of all high school students every day.
Forensic Botany Investigations
Forensic Botany Investigations is a unique classroom curriculum designed to educate middle school students about the unusual and exciting world of plant science while using a forensic approach to explore economic botany. The importance and value of plant science to all aspects of life, whether it's finding new cures for diseases, preserving traditional knowledge, creating better crops, or protecting rain forest species, is presented through engaging lessons, classroom activities, and documentary-like videos. Lessons also include basic science concepts such as plant anatomy, species diversity, and ecology. The program comprises a teacher book with blackline masters, and an included CD-ROM with videos.
Formative Evaluation for Interactive Radio Instruction
The publication provides training support and formative evaluation techniques for designers and practitioners of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programs. The manual, published in English, French and Spanish, includes experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America that illustrate different formative evaluation methods.
Fostering a Stance of Inquiry Among Teachers: Professional Development in Mathematics Education
New elementary curricula offer considerable promise in meeting new goals for student learning. These curricula represent a dramatic departure from more traditional textbooks. These new curricula, however, represent only one component of what is needed. New forms of instruction will become broadly available to students only if a substantial portion of the current teaching force transforms its current pedagogical practice. This transformation will require teacher professional development and support.
Fostering Algebraic Thinking: A Guide for Teachers of Grades 6-10
This book is written for teachers who want to reflect on, and perhaps redirect, their thinking about the learning and teaching of prealgebra and algebra, in light of the movement to base curriculum, instruction, and assessment on clearly defined standards. It is based on our work with teachers in grades 6 through 10, in several professional-development projects, especially the part of the work that has emphasized productive habits of algebraic thinking.
Fostering Geometric Thinking
With Fostering Geometric Thinking any math teacher can discover essential, practical ideas for helping students cultivate geometric habits of mind that lead to success in this crucial mathematical subject. The book focuses on rigorous, problem-based teaching that encourages students to deepen their thinking in three key geometric strands:
- geometric properties
- geometric transformations
- measurement of geometric objects.
Fostering Geometric Thinking shows you how the interplay of these strands helps students devise multiple solutions and develop a broader sense of geometric principles. It’s loaded with helpful resources, including:
- engaging problems to use in your classroom
- examples of student solutions to these problems
- transcripts of classroom interactions
- a DVD featuring in-the-field footage of students working through open-ended problems highlighted in the book.
Geometry is a vital component of mathematical understanding, and it’s time that it received the same attention that algebra and statistics do. With engaging problems and straightforward suggestions that can help students deepen, recognize, and describe their thinking, Fostering Geometric Thinking is the resource you need to ensure that when it comes to geometry, your students know all the angles.
Fraternity and Sorority Members and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
The "culture of drinking" on U.S. college campuses has recently gained widespread national attention. A report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) notes the disturbing consequences of drinking on campus each year: 1,400 college student deaths from alcohol-related causes; 500,000 unintentional injuries; 600,000 assaults; and 70,000 cases of sexual assault and acquaintance rape. Fraternities and sororities are among the key groups that foster this culture of drinking on campus. This Infofacts/Resources looks at the consequences of fraternity and sorority alcohol consumption and whether these organizations attract drinkers or promote drinking and provides strategies for institutions of higher education to use in reducing frequent and heavy drinking in fraternities and sororities.
From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
The game console may help to prepare children for participation in the digital world, but at the same time it socializes boys into misogyny and excludes girls from all but the most objectified positions. The contributors to From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat explore how assumptions about gender, games, and technology shape the design, development, and marketing of games as industry seeks to build the girl market. They describe and analyze the games currently on the market and propose tactical approaches for avoiding the stereotypes that dominate most toy store aisles. The lively mix of perspectives and voices includes those of media and technology scholars, educators, psychologists, developers of today's leading games, industry insiders, and girl gamers.
Features the chapter "Girl Games and Technological Desire" by EDC's Cornelia Brunner, Dorothy Bennett, and Margaret Honey.
From Knowledge to Knowing: An Inquiry into Teacher Learning in Science
In this paper we elaborate the idea of pedagogical content knowledge through close examination of a teacher's learning in science. We address a question derived from Shulman's (1986) original work on teacher knowledge: What is learning for teaching? We locate our exploration in a view of pedagogical knowing as a practice of seeing into the subject matter through the eyes, hearts, and minds of learners, an image we adapt from Ball (in press). We present a case study of a second year, fifth grade teacher as she conducted an investigation of aquatic ecology over a period of several months, in the context of a four-year project in which teachers examined science, science learning, and teaching through their own and their students' experience as learners. We analyze how this teacher came to see into the subject matter, her own learning, and her students` learning as she worked to understand aspects of the ecology of a local pond, and how her experience figured in her identify as a learner and her practice as a teacher.
Gateway to the Future: Skill Standards for the BioScience Industry
This book lists all of the tasks performed by technical workers in 20 entry-level positions in the bioscience industry and details the required academic knowledge, technical skills, and employability skills. This information was gathered through collaboration with industry technicians and supervisors. Also included are recommendations for how the skill standards can be used in education and training programs and curricula.
Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Violent Behaviors Among African American and Hispanic Young Adolescents (from
, 24:539-557) In this paper the authors used epidemiological evidence to investigate gender differences in risk factors for violent behavior among African American and Hispanic young adolescents who live in some of the most economically depressed and underserved areas of New York City. 1,339 7th and 8th grade students completed the Violent Behavior Scale, the Violence Supporting Attitudes Scale, and Risky Sex Index. The results show that interpersonal violence is a pressing problem among these young adolescents and that it is a problem among girls as well as boys. While rates of violence were higher for males than females, nearly half of the 7th and 8th grade girls surveyed reported recently threatening to beat someone up or use a weapon; over one third reported recent fights, weapon carrying, or use.
Gender Gaps in Assessment Outcomes in Vermont and the United States
Using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP), the report examines how gender gaps differ between Vermont NAEP scores and U.S. NAEP scores and between Vermont NAEP and NECAP scores in grades 4 and 8. Overall and disaggregated by poverty and disability status, gender achievement gaps in Vermont resembled those in the country as a whole except in a few cases.
Gender Health/Respectful Schools
Gender Health/Respectful Schools captures the experiences and lessons learned in a three-year project in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts schools. Funding from the Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation allowed teacher teams to develop projects that would contribute to the creation of schools in which girls and boys thrive socially, emotional, and academically; pursue interests and build competencies free from gender-biased, stereotypical expectations; and become confident that they can and do make a difference in their world. The video highlights key characteristics of gender healthy/respectful school
Gender in Youth Livelihoods and Workforce Development Programs
This program note summarizes key gender issues in livelihoods and workforce development programs and discusses the Educational Quality Improvement Program 3 (EQUIP3)'s aproach to addressing gneder, using examples from specific EQUIP3 youth projects to illustrate lessons learned
Getting Started on Campus: Tips for New Prevention Coordinators
The role of a prevention coordinator on campus needs the right balance of accurate information, clear strategy, and open collaboration with others. This Prevention Update helps to simplify, organize, and provide a context for the information and resources for the new prevention coordinator.
Getting to Know the NOMs
This online, interactive tool is designed to help substance abuse prevention practitioners working at the State level understand what SAMHSA's National Outcome Measuress are all about—the domains, outcomes, and measures that are included; the requirements for collection and reporting; and the important ways these data will be used.
Good High Schools for Students with Disabilities
From Learning Disabilities Research & Practice August 2006—Vol. 21 Issue 3. This special issue presents findings from Good High Schools, a 3-year study of high schools that have strong participation and positive results for their students with disabilities.
Guide to Assessing and Designing Tourism Workforce Development Programs
This guide is intended to strengthen the capacity of managers (from government, NGOs, and the private sector) to assess, design, implement, and evaluate workforce development programs in the tourism sector. A special focus of the guide is on the development of programs that provide employment opportunities to youth ages 15–24.
Guide to Cross-Sectoral Youth Assessments
The Guide to Conducting Cross-Sectoral Youth Assessments provides a conceptual framework, instruments, and tools for designing and implementing youth assessments in developing countries. It is intended for use by assessment specialists and USAID Mission staff interested in conducting a comprehensive cross-sectoral assessment of the assets and needs of youth. Combining the use of both qualitative and quantitative assessment techniques, this guide provides instructions on how to conduct hands-on research designed to engage youth and other key stakeholders and understand their knowledge, perceptions, and experiences regarding youth development needs.
Guide to Engaging the Media in Suicide Prevention
Produced by the Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN USA) and EDC's Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), this guide helps to achieve our nation’s suicide prevention goals by teaching suicide prevention advocates how to serve as effective media spokespeople and to create awareness of this important issue through media coverage. The publication describes how to use television, radio, and print media and provides examples of press releases, media advisories, pitch letters, op-eds, and more. It also gives tips for identifying appropriate media outlets, creating up-to-date media lists, and tracking results.
Guide to Evaluating the Essentials Training
EDC has constructed a set of guidelines to aid local evaluators in more than 30 countries in their efforts to conduct research on local implementations of the Intel Teach to the Future Workshop worldwide. The guidelines outline how local evaluators should use research instruments provided as part of the program implementation.
Guide to Professional Development of Out-of-School Activity Leaders
This Web guide was designed to address the need for ongoing professional development of out-of-school activity leaders by offering specific training tools for those who may want to present workshops and provide ongoing training for this audience. We expect that specific content on this site can be used flexibly depending on the needs and experience of the community-based organization with which you are working.
Guidelines for Developing Educational Materials to Address Children Unattended in Vehicles
Guidelines for Developing Educational Materials to Address Children Unattended in Vehicles lays out a process to develop effective educational materials that take into account communication theory. This document is designed for organizations to help prevent children from being left unattended in vehicles and heat injuries that can result from this situation. As with the prevention of any injury, educational strategies work best when they are part of a sustained program addressing a source of injury and when they are combined with legislative and policy measures that facilitate changes in behavior. While these guidelines are tailored to heat-related injuries, the principles can be applied more generally to address other dangers children face when unattended in vehicles.
Guidelines for Developing Traffic Safety Educational Materials for Spanish-Speaking Audiences
This resource was designed for organizations seeking to create culturally and linguistically appropriate traffic safety educational materials for Latinos. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Latinos between the ages of one and thirty-four.
Guiding Curriculum Decisions for Middle-Grades Language Arts
Guiding Curriculum Decisions for Middle-Grades Language Arts is part of a series of curriculum guides for middle-grades language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. This guide offers a set of principles for making curriculum decisions and illustrates these principles with practioners' descriptions of the experiences in implementing standards-based curricula.
Guiding Curriculum Decisions for Middle-Grades Mathematics
Guiding Curriculum Decisions for Middle-Grades Mathematics is part of a series of curriculum guides for middle-grades language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. This guide offers a set of principles for making curriculum decisions and illustrates these principles with practioners' descriptions of the experiences in implementing standards-based curricula.
Guiding Curriculum Decisions for Middle-Grades Science
Guiding Curriculum Decisions for Middle-Grades Science presents a framework for decision making, provides an overview of the curriculum decision-making process, and contains detailed information on a variety of science curricula and curriculum resources. The authors pose a set of critical questions for curriculum decision making that corresponds to a framework focused on three priorities: academic rigor, equity, and developmental appropriateness. Vignettes drawn from interviews with practitioners suggest not only what exemplary curricula look like in action, but also the kinds of profiles of outstanding curricula that illustrate the qualities identified in the framework, as well as information about additional curricula and professional development resources available in print and online.
Handbook for Enhancing Strategic Leadership in the Math and Science Partnerships
The purpose of this publication is to assist those participating in the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnerships program to be as strategic as possible as they go about the challenging work of improving mathematics and science education. The Handbook is based on research on large-scale reform, as well as the "wisdom of practice" of practitioners involved in prior teacher enhancement and systemic reform efforts.
Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention
Features the chapter "Encouraging Adoption of Science-Based Interventions: Organizational and Community Issues" by EDC's Lydia O'Donnell and Renee Wilson-Simmons.
Communities nationwide are under increasing pressure to adopt evidence-based interventions to address a range of public health problems, including intentional and unintentional injuries. This pressure is the result of a remarkable shift over the last decade in the number and stringency of requirements that practitioners are expected to meet when seeking funds for the implementation of new programs. The need for greater fiscal and programmatic accountability at federal, state, and local levels has resulted in new policies, chief among them, that local decision making and services be based on solid evidence of what works. However, local agencies and practitioners face considerable challenges when they attempt to implement evidence-based strategies and obtain the desired reductions in morbidity and mortality.
Handbook of School Violence and School Safety: From Research to Practice
This handbook attempts to comprehensively profile (on a worldwide basis) the emerging field of school violence and safety research and practice. It covers the full range of school violence from harassment and bullying to serious physical assault. It also examines existing school safety programs and the research and theories that guide them. Features the chapter "Implementing the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative in Kansas" by Jennifer Kitson of EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs in collaboration with Stephen Kitzis, Leslie Paige, and Joyce Wolfe.
Head Start Moving Ahead Competency-Based Training Program
This set of self-directed training materials was designed to assist individuals and small groups to develop competencies in 21 basic organization skills including communcation, collaboration, conflict resolution, and group facilitation
Healing the Hate
Designed for use in middle schools and youth organizations, this curriculum deals with the extent of hate crime in the United States and presents strategies that are proving effective in reducing hate crimes among our youth. Centered on the principles that violence and prejudice are learned behaviors which are preventable and that students can develop critical thinking skills to respond to and prevent hate crime, this flexible 10 unit curriculum includes interactive classroom exercises to provoke debate about issues and ideas, to illustrate the profound impact of hate crime, and to help students develop skills to recognize and counteract prejudice through involvement at the school and community levels.
Health and Human Development Programs: Research, Innovation, Results
This brochure offers examples of some of HHD's many accomplishments. It gives insight into programs at EDC and emphasizes the need for research and evaluation as well as capacity building to achieve these goals.
Health and Safety Training for Young Workers: How Do We Really Make this Work
Proceedings from a meeting of federal and state representatives who have worked with the Young Worker Resource Center. Discusses the experience of states implementing the Youth@Work curriculum and other youth worker safety initiatives, as well as proposed changes and future directions.
Health in Action
Health in Action is a periodical published by the American School Health Association (ASHA). Members of EDC's Health and Human Development Programs contributed to the May/June 2005 issue on bullying. The issue features an overview of the problem and information on: the roles of males and females as aggressors and targets; the influence of bystanders on bullying; suggestions to help parents; strategies for educators and school health professionals to use in dealing with and preventing bullying; and resources for further information.
Health is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs
This comprehensive guide defines coordinated school health programs and discusses how they contribute to the health and educational achievement of students; who participates in and supports these programs at the local school, state, and national levels; and how to implement these programs.
Health Promotion, Schools and Community: The Labyrinth of Implementation
Health Promotion, Schools and Community: The Labyrinth of Implementation attempts to answer the questions: How do we—in the countries of Latin America—build a Health Promoting School? and, What are the determining factors in a successful implementation process? To this end, the document will examine the major aspects involved in the implementation process, based on international experience with special emphasis on what is distinctive in the regional context.
Healthy Beginnings: Lead Safe Families
The American Academy of Pediatrics has identified lead poisoning as one of the most common toxicological hazards facing young children in the United States. Most homes built before 1978 have paint with lead, and children living in these homes are at risk for ingesting and/or absorbing lead from paint dust, tap water, and soil. Families for which English is a second language are vulnerable because so many of them live in older homes.
Yet, lead poisoning can be prevented--if tenants and homeowners know what danger signs to look for, and how to reduce or eliminate lead poisoning. That's why the Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the development of Health Beginnings: Lead Safe Families, an easy-to-use curriculum for adult ESL classes.
Free for ESL programs, the illustrated curriculum is available in beginner's and intermediate/advanced versions. Each unit poses a specific situation relating to lead hazards, and shows people how to protect their families. Vocabulary lists, workbook style questions, sentence completion exercises, and illustrated checklists are included in each of the following units:
- Going to the Doctor
- Identifying Symptoms of Illness
- Making Water Safe to Drink
- Preparing and Storing Food
- Avoiding Dangers in the Dirt
- Finding the Right Home
- Identifying Household Hazards*
- Making Your Home Safe*
- Renovating Your Home*
*Only available in intermediate/advanced version.
This versatile, field-tested curriculum is accompanied by a teacher's guide that includes a glossary translated into eight languages: Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Khmer, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Health Begninnings unites may be used sequentially, combined with other materials, or taught individually. Students can keep the units together in a notebook for home practice and share them with family members and neighbors.
Help at Hand—Supporting Survivors of Suicide Loss: A Guide for Funeral Directors
This 16-page brochure produced in partnership with the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA is for funeral directors who are working with suicide survivors. The brochure covers what’s different about suicide deaths, tending to the complex needs of survivors, and dealing with compassion fatigue.
Helping Children Outgrow War
This book is built around case studies of both formal and informal educational programs developed in the midst or aftermath of conflict and crisis. Miller and his co-authors discuss the case studies in terms of a four-stage model of recovery developed by other researchers in the field: emergency, recovery, rehabilitiation, and reconstruction.
High School Science Performance Assessments: An Examination of Instruments for Massachusetts
This paper describes the development and implementation process of high school science performance assessments in the following nine states: Colorado, Connecticut. Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Vermont. It provides detailed descriptions of these states’ instruments, including in-depth information on the test development process (who, how, when), piloting (length of time, recruitment of schools, sampling framework), technical qualities (validity, reliability, item analysis), reporting (student/school/district/state level), and district/school buy-in strategies (surveys, meetings, regulations/laws). The products resulting from this project guided the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as they developed a science performance assessment in 2008.
HIV/AIDS and Education: A Strategic Approach
As a member of UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT), EDC contributed to IATT’s policy and this practice framework document. The paper presents an overview of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and the education sector. It looks at what is known about the epidemic’s impact on education; examines use of educational settings to promote understanding, attitudes, and behaviours to limit risk of infection; assesses the use of education to promote respect, care, and support for those infected and affected by the epidemic; and sets forth policy questions that must be addressed.
HIV/AIDS and Employment: Protecting Young People and Involving Them in Work-Related Solutions
EDC's Health and Human Development and the Youth Employment Summit have written this paper to present the current knowledge and creative strategies regarding youth involvement in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in developing countries with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. This paper also poses several questions for further exploration with the intention of developing approaches for involving youth further in HIV/AIDS work through employment opportunities. For this paper, "youth" are those between the ages of 15 and 24, as defined by UNICEF.
How Eight State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Identify and Support Low-Performing Schools and Districts
This report describes and analyzes how eight state education agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region—those of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Vermont–identify and support low-performing schools and districts under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Focusing on direct state supports and interventions, the report finds that the eight agencies have created supports and rationales to put federally defined accountability principles into practice in response to their specific contexts, local needs, and capacities.
How State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Support Data-Driven Decision Making in Districts and Schools
The report examines the initiatives of state education agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region to support data-driven decision making in districts and schools and describes the service providers hired to support this work. The report identifies four components of data-driven decision making initiatives and finds that not all initiatives include all four.
How Student and School Characteristics are Associated with Performance on the Maine High School Assessment
Using multilevel regression models to examine how student characteristics, student prior achievement measures, and school characteristics are associated with performance on the Maine High School Assessment, the study finds statistically significant relationships between several of these variables and assessment scores in reading, writing, math, and science.
How to Select a Program Evaluator
Campus-based alcohol, other drug, and violence prevention coordinators are under increasing pressure to evaluate their programs. This 3-page flyer describes the role of evaluation in program planning and implementation; skills, expertise, qualifications, experience to look for in an evaluator; incentives for the evaluator; questions to ask when considering an evaluator; and how to network to find the right evaluator.
ICT Fluency and High Schools: A Workshop Summary
This report summarizes a workshop held at the National Academies in October 2005 to explore how high schools should respond to calls for increasing fluency with information and communications technology (ICT) among American adolescents. Margaret Honey, EDC Vice President and director of EDC’s Center for Children & Technology, chaired the workshop committee, contributed to the overall report, and authored the Background chapter at the beginning of this book.
Ideas for Collaboration Between Injury Control Research Centers and Health Department Injury Prevention Programs
This fact sheet summarizes major points discussed at a session, "How State Health Department Injury Prevention Programs and Injury Control Research Centers can Collaborate to More Effectively Prevent Injuries" presented at the 2005 CDC grantees meeting. Illustrates how challenges can be met through collaboration with ICRCs and provides guidance for initiating collaboration.
Impact Mathematics
A comprehensive middle-school mathematics curriculum that integrates a full year of algebra with geometry, statistics, and number in a developmentally appropriate sequence across grades 6 - 8. The curriculum balances the development of mathematical concepts with appropriate skill practice.
Implementation Benchmarks
This is a resource for SS/HS grantees to gauge their level of implementation as they work through all the components of Implementation.
Implementation Strategies for Improving STEM Education and Workforce Development in Massachusetts: A Survey of Key Policy Makers
This policy brief was developed in response to the Goddard Council’s need for a stronger strategic direction to inform its work. The report provides recommendations based on national and state reports and interviews with the Goddard Council and other Massachusetts leaders in business, education, and government.
Improving Educational Quality through Interactive Radio Instruction: A Toolkit for Policy Makers and Planners
Written for the World Bank by EDC staff, this report explains the concept of interactive radio instruction (IRI) and how it has become an essential tool in improving schooling in Africa. A toolkit for policymakers and educators, it offers a number of planning resources.
Improving Mathematical Problem Solving in Grades 4 Through 8
This practice guide provides five recommendations for improving students’ mathematical problem solving in grades 4 through 8. This guide is geared toward teachers, math coaches, other educators, and curriculum developers who want to improve the mathematical problem solving of students.
In Fulfillment of Their Mission: The Duties and Tasks of a Roman Catholic Priest: An Assessment Project
Offers a profile of what a successful priest needs to know and be able to do. It outlines nine major areas of ministerial concern—the duties—and enumerates several tasks within each performance area. Four levels of competency are described for each task, with accompanying descriptions, laid out in a chart format. Useful for seminary administrators, professors, formation directors, continuing education of clergy directors, and for priests to use in self-assessment and professional growth plans.
Including Children with Significant Disabilities in Head Start
This guide helps to enhance the skills of Head Start staff to meet the needs of children with more significant disabilities as well as their families.
Inclusion Is the Answer: Unions Involving and Supporting Educators Living with HIV
Education International, EDC, and the World Health Organization have developed this toolkit to help educators and their unions support and involve educators who are living with HIV. Emphasis is placed on eliminating stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV in order to enable support and involvement in all union activities. The toolkit will be used by union leaders and educators in the EFAIDS program in 35 countries around the world.
Increasing Seat Belt Use Among Teens: A Summary of Research, Resources, and Programs
This set of resources was originally prepared for a training titled "Initiative to Enhance Seat Belt Use by Adolescents in New Hampshire Communities". It is intended to serve as an overview of efforts that have been shown to increase seat belt use among this high-risk population. There are three sections to this resource, which can be used together or separately depending on a programs need.
- Section 1: Summary from the Literature
- Section 2: Examples of Community-Based Programs
- Section 3: Support Materials.
Infusing Equity in Systemic Reform: An Implementation Scheme
This document is designed to assist leaders of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Systemic Initiatives (SIs) and other educational reforms to pursue the goal of equity and excellence in mathematics and science education for all students. Particularly, it is aimed at assisting them in infusing equity throughout their entire SIs. The document attempts to provide answers to the following three fundamental questions:
1. What is high-quality science and mathematics education and how does it differ from current practice?
2. How does the infusion of equity make it high quality?
3. How can schools create and sustain a high-quality mathematics and science education for all students?
Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies
This book is a guide to understanding and preventing unintentional and violence-related injury from a public health perspective. It provides a synthesis of three major elements: the nature and magnitude of injury, the basic concepts of injury prevention, and practical strategies and resources for planning, implementing, and evaluating prevention programs. It uniquely combines scientific information, practitioner perspectives, and real world implementation.
Injury Prevention and Smart Growth
Developed for the 2004 STIPDA annual meeting, this fact sheet describes the progression of urban/suburban sprawl; discusses the relationship between sprawl and injuries and violence; suggests roles and potential partnerships for state injury prevention staff and STIPDA members on how smart growth can address sprawl and associated injuries.
INNOVATIONS in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies & International Perspectives Volume 1
Innovations in End-of-Life Care is at once a handbook, a consciousness raiser, and an inspirational guide. It is also a reference book of resources and tools, with protocols and bibliographies to help you, your health care institution, and your community improve care for those in the advanced stages of illness. This book represents a cross-national and cross-cultural source of cutting-edge ideas for improving the care of the dying. Its interdisciplinary approach makes Innovations invaluable for:
- Physicians and Nurses
- Hospital Administrators
- Social Workers
- Chaplains
- Other Allied Health Care Professionals
- Managed Care Professionals
- Home Care Agencies
- Nursing Homes
- Palliative Care Specialists
- Health Lawyers & Policymakers
INNOVATIONS in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies & International Perspectives Volume 2
INNOVATIONS in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies & International Perspectives Volume 2. This second volume in an annual series focuses on six new themes in palliative care: Hospice in Prison, Intergenerational Approaches to Hospice, Working Toward an Integrated Model of Palliative Care, Measuring Quality in Palliative Care, Pediatric Palliative Care and Spirituality in End-of-Live Care.
INNOVATIONS in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies & International Perspectives Volume 3
This is the third volume in a series, which is a compilation of cutting-edge strategies for making improvements in the quality of care for patients and their families through life's final transition. Its purpose is to improve quality of care through the dissemination, cross-cultural analysis, and critical examination of innovative practices. It features in-depth descriptions of how health care professionals have redesigned systems of care to better support dying patients, as well as analytical essays and international commentary from leaders in the growing worldwide palliative care movement.
Volume Three explores six themes: Continuity of Care, Institutionalization of Palliative Care, Support for Family Caregivers, Grief and Bereavement, Improving Pain Management in Long-term Care, and Quality of Life.
Inquiring into Science Instruction Observation Protocol (ISIOP)
Inquiring into Science Instruction Observation Protocol (ISIOP) assists evaluators and researchers in determining the extent to which quality pedagogical practices, including instruction that integrates scientific practices and habits of mind, are present in secondary science classrooms.
The ISIOP contains several materials, some of which are needed for training purposes only; others are required for observations. All of these products are located on the ISIOP website.
- ISIOP User’s Manual (this document)
- ISIOP Teacher Pre-Observation Questionnaire
- ISIOP Data Collection Instrument
- ISIOP training materials, including videos, transcripts, and coded examples
Inquiry and the Development of Teaching: Issues in the Transformation of Mathematics Teaching
Each of the papers in this anthology has focused on a dimension of the process entailed for teachers as they embark on the project of moving their teaching toward that envisioned in the NCTM Standards-the impact of the nature of teachers' mathematical knowledge on their visions for teaching, the role of affect in the process of change; the essential characteristics of helpful materials, and the issues to be addressed in developing a teacher community that supports investigation into practice. The existence of the set of papers invites "conversation" about the relationships between these elements: What role does affect play in teachers' developing mathematical sophistication? How can materials help teachers become better mathematicians? Does the presence of a supportive culture enhance both the expression of affect and mathematical growth? and so on.
Inquiry Synthesis Project Publications
This study, funded by the National Science Foundation, addressed the question: What is the impact of inquiry science instruction on student outcomes? This bundled product includes technical reports and other resources related to this research.
Inquiry-Based Science Instruction—What Is It and Does It Matter?
This article, published in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (vol 47, no. 4), describes results from EDC's NSF-funded Inquiry Synthesis Project, which synthesized findings from research conducted between 1984 and 2002 to address the research question, What is the impact of inquiry science instruction on K-12 student outcomes?
Insights in Biology: Journey of Discovery (Second Edition)
Insights in Biology is a comprehensive first-year high school biology curriculum that emphasizes cellular and molecular biology as well as genetics, ecology, and evolution. The curriculum represents an innovative approach to teaching and learning introductory biology. This new approach incorporates the traditional discipline-specific concepts with an emphasis on presenting concepts in depth and in context. This program not only develops conceptual connections through a storyline that is relevant to students' lives, but also uses inquiry-based activities that focus on process-thinking skills students will use for a lifetime.
What’s New in the Second Edition?
- Updated content on cell biology, genetics, molecular biology ecology and evolution
- Single, case-bound, four-color teacher and student editions
- Wrap-around Teacher Edition
- NSTA's SciLinks®
- Engaging, full-color photographs
Insights in Biology is organized into four units:
1. Matter of Life: Cell Biology
2. Traits and Fates: Genetics
3. Blueprints of Infection: Molecular Biology
4. What on Earth?: Ecology
Insights: An Inquiry-Based Elementary School Science Curriculum (Fourth and Fifth Grade Modules)
Insights is an innovative, inquiry-based, hands-on science curriculum for elementary school students. The full curriculum consists of 21 modules that represent a balance of life, earth, and physical science. The modules also highlight six major science themes: systems, change, structure and function, diversity, cause and effect, and energy. Each module is made up of a carefully sequenced, age-appropriate set of hands-on experiences designed to be directly relevant to the child. The modules are designed for use in self-contained elementary classrooms, and can be used as a core curriculum to be expanded as necessary, or individually in conjunction with existing programs.
Insights: An Inquiry-Based Elementary School Science Curriculum (Kindergarten and First Grade Modules)
Insights is an innovative, inquiry-based, hands-on science curriculum for elementary school students. The full curriculum consists of 21 modules that represent a balance of life, earth, and physical science. The modules also highlight six major science themes: systems, change, structure and function, diversity, cause and effect, and energy. Each module is made up of a carefully sequenced, age-appropriate set of hands-on experiences designed to be directly relevant to the child. The modules are designed for use in self-contained elementary classrooms, and can be used as a core curriculum to be expanded as necessary, or individually in conjunction with existing programs.
Insights: An Inquiry-Based Elementary School Science Curriculum (Second and Third Grade Modules)
Insights is an innovative, inquiry-based, hands-on science curriculum for elementary school students. The full curriculum consists of 21 modules that represent a balance of life, earth, and physical science. The modules also highlight six major science themes: systems, change, structure and function, diversity, cause and effect, and energy. Each module is made up of a carefully sequenced, age-appropriate set of hands-on experiences designed to be directly relevant to the child. The modules are designed for use in self-contained elementary classrooms, and can be used as a core curriculum to be expanded as necessary, or individually in conjunction with existing programs.
Insights: An Inquiry-Based Elementary School Science Curriculum (Sixth Grade Modules)
Insights is an innovative, inquiry-based, hands-on science curriculum for elementary school students. The full curriculum consists of 21 modules that represent a balance of life, earth, and physical science. The modules also highlight six major science themes: systems, change, structure and function, diversity, cause and effect, and energy. Each module is made up of a carefully sequenced, age-appropriate set of hands-on experiences designed to be directly relevant to the child. The modules are designed for use in self-contained elementary classrooms, and can be used as a core curriculum to be expanded as necessary, or individually in conjunction with existing programs.
Integrating Technology with Student-Centered Learning
To learn more about how technology could enhance student-centered learning, EDC examined current research literature as well as practice and policy-related reports. This research was enriched by collaboration with EDC colleagues who have expertise on this subject as well as interviews with educators at selected schools. This report concludes that while technology can provide a powerful teaching and learning tool, it cannot drive reform on its own. To be widely adopted, technology must be part of a comprehensive and systematic effort to change education. This report provides a candid look at the potential technology offers and the steps needed to better understand when technology is most effective in student-centered learning—and for whom.
Intel Teach to the Future 2003 End of School Year Survey Report
This report presents findings from the U.S. evaluation of the original or "Classic" version of the Intel Teach to the Future program. The data analyzed in this report come primarily from a survey administered in April 2003 to Classic Master and Participant Teachers in the United States.
Intel Teach to the Future 2004 End of School Year Survey Report
This report highlights results from an End of School Year survey administered to Master and Participant Teachers in the Classic and Expansion versions of Intel Teach to the Future.
Intel Teach to the Future Leadership Forum Evaluation Report
This report presents findings and recommendations from formative research on Intel Teach to the Future's Leadership Forum Pilot program. Teach to the Future is designed to guide school and district-level administrators in their efforts to plan and implement technology integration and professional development in their schools.
Intel Teach to the Future U.S. Implementation, Classic and Expansion Teachers 2004 End of School Year Survey Summary
This report describes and summarizes findings from our three-year evaluation of the Intel Teach to the Future program's classic implementation, which has provided direct technology professional development to more than 100,000 teachers in the United States.
Intercollegiate Athletics and Alcohol and Other Drug Concerns: Proceedings of an Invitational Symposium
In March 1999 the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, held a symposium to examine the questions: Are college athletics inadvertently contributing to alcohol and other drug problems on campuses and in surrounding communities and, if so, what measures can mitigate the extent of such problems? Campus administrators (including two college presidents), faculty, students, health policy analysts, and others considered experiences from campuses ranging in size from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I to Division III.
The proceedings report includes 11 recommendations offered by the participants, including the following: The NCAA, in response to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala’s January 1998 challenge, should reassess its policies for accepting alcohol advertising and sponsorship; and schools should (1) enforce consistent alcohol control measures for public events to avoid double standards; (2) engage their surrounding communities in collaborative prevention activities; and (3) examine the pros and cons of acceptance of support from the alcohol industry in whatever form, including so-called "responsible drinking" campaigns.
International Survey of Principals Concerning Emotional and Mental Health and Well-Being
This report presents major findings of the International Confederation of Principals (ICP) and International Alliance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools (Intercamhs) International Survey of Principals Concerning Emotional and Mental Health and Well-Being. Approximately 1,200 principals from 27 countries responded to the survey. Principals see a strong link between mental health and academic performance and identify the primary issues facing their students and staff. Respondents point to the need for professional development resources, including educational and training materials, to better address these issues.
Interpersonal Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
Sexual assault, nonsexual assault, hate crimes, and hazing are serious problems on campus, and alcohol is all too often involved in these crimes. This Infofacts/Resources explores the prevalence of violence on campus, its connection to alcohol use, and strategies for institutions to reduce it.
Involving Young People in Efforts to Combat HIV and AIDS in Africa: The Importance of Income-Generating Strategies
Across Africa, the unemployment and HIV/AIDS infection rates are high among youth between ages 15 and 24. To inform and guide policymaking, EDC’s report, Involving Young People in Efforts to Combat HIV and AIDS in Africa: The Importance of Income-Generating Strategies, explores the role of youth engagement and income-generating strategies in mitigating the devastating impact of HIV and. It describes innovative efforts to compensate youth for their work in HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, and care throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Islamic Education Sector Study: Ghana
The purpose of the assessment was to gather information about the range of Islamic schools in Ghana, including information on their strengths, weaknesses, needs, and impact. This information will be used to help USAID and the Ghana Education Service assess whether and how some of these schools could be assisted in expanding access to high-quality formal education for Muslim populations in Ghana.
IT Career Cluster Initiative Brochure
This brochure provides information on how to pursue an education in IT, including career opportunities in IT and IT-reliant industries and the current job market outlook. For students and learners of all age groups (children, teens and adults), guidance counselors, administrators, business partners, teachers, and parents. (2nd edition)
IT Pathway Pipeline Model: Rethinking Information Technology Learning in Schools
What will it take to educate a society of knowledge workers? The Information Technology (IT) Pathway/Pipeline Model proposes a progression of skills and knowledge that links educational technology skills for learning with IT skills needed for success in high skilled, high wage careers.
Jobs for the 21st Century: Cambodia Assessment
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Cambodian mission has made significant contributions to basic education through curriculum development, has supported private sector competitiveness in the burgeoning garment industry, and has provided technical and financial assistance to develop micro- and small enterprises to support household income in this very poor and very rural Southeast Asia nation. This assessment, funded by the USAID Asia and Near East Bureau and conducted by EDC, is intended to develop recommendations for further action based on a fact-finding review of factors influencing demand (the present state and future projections of the Cambodian economy as it pertains to the creation of employment opportunities) and those influencing supply (the present and future capacity of the educational and other systems and programs to meet the demand for skills, educational levels, and location of the labor force). The assessment posed three questions, drawn from the methodology of similar USAID assessments in other nations:
- Will young Cambodians be prepared for and able to adapt to the changes in the society and in the economy and to the demands of employers?
- Are there, or will there be, “real jobs” in the Cambodian economy, and will they be sufficient to the supply of labor?
- Do the institutions and service institutions (government and non-government) have the means and systems to meet the demands of the future economy?
A fourth question is suggested by the interest of the USAID/Cambodia mission in making future investments in youth employment and/or school to work transition:
- Are there tactical or strategic investment options that the USAID mission can use to improve the match between young people and the evolving society and economy?
Jobs for the 21st Century: India Assessment
This report is part of a larger study, Jobs for the 21st Century Initiative, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Asia and Near East Bureau. This initiative identifies trends and promising approaches to addressing youth and workforce issues in the Asia/Near East Region. The main goal of the report is to mesh current knowledge and information of India workforce development into a coherent strategy that examines the three main components of the assessment: the youth, the economic environment that shapes workforce demand, and the institutional supply of workforce training. This report is framed around central questions.
- How can job skills and placement opportunities for unemployed vulnerable youth be increased in India, with particular attention to the National Capital Region (Delhi), Maharashtra, and Jharkhand?
- What are the entry points of youth into the labor market, and how do these points relate to economic growth, employment generation, livelihood and labor policies in the three targeted states?
- What are the formal and non-formal education and training opportunities and institutions that can help prepare out-of-school unemployed youth in the three targeted states for work and engagement in civil society?
- What kinds of strategies and programs might USAID consider that will strengthen local efforts to meet the education, training, and employment needs of unemployed out-of-school youth (OSY)?
Jobs for the 21st Century: Indonesia Assessment
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Chevron Corporation are designing a polytechnic institution in Indonesia’s Aceh Province that will need effective job placement strategies to help its graduates find employment in the Aceh, Medan, and Batam areas. This assessment, funded by the USAID Asia and Near East Bureau and conducted by EDC, focuses on three main questions:
- What is the demand of firms and industry for technical workers in Aceh and surrounding provinces?
- What are the main linkages between workforce institutions and labor demand?
- What are the key characteristics of youth workforce in Aceh that will influence job search, recruitment and participation in polytechnic education?
Jobs for the 21st Century: Philippines Assessment
This report, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Asia and Near East Bureau, presents an assessment of the opportunities and challenges to engage unemployed, out-of school youth (ages 15–24) of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in workforce and civil society. Nearly a quarter of all school-age children (ages 6 to 24) in ARMM are out of school and unemployed. Among the 15 to 24 year age group, this affects an estimated 157,000 youth, both male and female. In addition, many more youth in ARMM are underemployed or working in traditional occupations without the benefit of value-added training. The assessment seeks to understand key aspects of the youth workforce in the ARMM, such as the main characteristics of the out-of school youth, their economic opportunities, and the local education and training institutions that provide skills training and education to such youth. In addition, the report identifies key investment options to be considered by planners of effective programs for out-of-school youth. The assessment was carried out over a three-month period by a team of international and local education and workforce specialists.
Jobs for the 21st Century: Sri Lanka Assessment
This report presents the findings, conclusions, and recommendations from a rapid assessment of Jobs for the 21st Century for Sri Lanka, jointly sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development/Bureau of Asia and the Near East and the USAID Mission in Sri Lanka. One of the main goals of the report is to mesh current knowledge and information of Sri Lankan workforce development into a coherent strategy that examines the three main components of the assessment: the youth, the economic environment that shapes workforce demand, and the institutional supply of workforce training. In so doing, this report identifies key workforce issues and develops programming recommendations around a multi-project agenda for workforce development in the country.
Jobs for the 21st Century: Synthesis Paper
The Jobs for the 21st Century Initiative, a project under the Asia and Near East Bureau of the U. S. Agency for International Development, provides support in assessing and planning job creation and youth workforce programs and policies in select countries of the Asia Near East region. The assessments focused on Asia, specifically Cambodia, India, Indonesia (Aceh and nearby provinces), the Philippines (Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao), and Sri Lanka, as well as additional cross-country research. This report synthesizes the findings of these studies, analyzing the main reasons for unemployment in the above five countries and the implications for future development programs. The methodology used for this analysis draws on two types of data: cross-country key indicators related to unemployment, job creation and workforce; and specific examples from the five country assessments. The analysis covers four main areas: 1) Job creation and labor demand; 2) Demographic and labor supply—the characteristics of youth, new labor market entrants, and workers of the targeted areas; 3) Skills mismatch and shortages due to supply-side policies and institutions; and 4) Social networks and youth expectations.
Journal of Palliative Medicine
The Journal covers the latest developments in drug and non-drug therapies for symptoms and syndromes that affect patients with life-threatening diseases.
- Focuses on the Integrative, Team Approach to Patient Treatment
- Covers Treatment of Cancer, AIDS, Cardiac Disease, Pulmonary, Neurologic and Respiratory Conditions, Organ Failure, and many other diseases
- Highlights Palliative Care Programs Around the U.S. and the World
- Explores Palliative Care Education
- Reports on the Latest Developments in Pain and Symptom Management
- Deals with Ethical, Legal, and Reimbursement Issues Relating to Palliative Medicine
- Indexed in: EMBASE/Excerpta Medica and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
The Journal of Palliative Medicine is published in collaboration with Innovations in End-of-Life Care, an initiative of Last Acts based at the Center for Applied Ethics and Professional Practice (CAEPP) at EDC, Inc. CAEPP Director, Mildred Z. Solomon, serves as senior associate editor of JPM, as well as the editor-in-chief of Innovations.
Journal of Research on Computing in Education (Spring 2005)
Using survey data, "Factors Influencing Outcomes from a Technology-Focused Professional Development Program" examines the relationship between intensity (as opposed to duration) of a technology-focused professional development program and specifi c participant characteristics in predicting successful outcomes. The four participant characteristics chosen were: teachers’ feelings of preparedness to support student technology use, teachers’ perceptions of the usefulness of creating technology-based projects with students, teachers’ perceptions of the relevance of the pedagogical approaches emphasized, and teachers’ prior use of featured software.
K Today: Teaching and Learning in the Kindergarten Year
This book offers a vivid picture of kindergarten children, perceptive discussion of the current kindergarten context and policy issues, and clear guidelines for teaching and assessing kindergartners. Also, for six curriculum domains—language and literacy, math, science, the creative arts, social studies, and physical education—leading experts outline what children should know and be able to do and how effective teachers ensure that learning. Features the chapter "Science in Kindergarten" by Ingrid Chalufour of EDC's Center for Children & Families and Karen Worth of EDC's Center for Science Education. In the chapter, the authors use vignettes and explanatory text to present a picture of inquiry-based science in kindergarten classrooms. Appropriate subject matter is discussed as well as effective teaching strategies.
For more information on this publication, please contact:
Karen Worth (mailto:kworth@edc.org) 1-800-225-4276 x2428
Ingrid Chalufour (mailto:ichalufour@edc.org) 1-800-225-4276 x2319
Kenny's Story: Essential Elements of Early Literacy Learning
This report provides a comprehensive portrait of the features of early literacy learning and offers strategies for facilitating early literacy in the classroom, home, and community.
Last Call: High Risk Bar Promotions That Target College Students: A Community Action Guide
Last Call helps members of college communities create healthier campus environments by reducing the high-volume/low-cost supply of alcohol that is so conducive to heavy drinking. It examines alcohol marketing aimed at students and looks at laws and policies that restrict promotional practices. It also includes tips for organizing a coalition, gathering information, and developing a strategic plan to change bar marketing and service practices. This material is subject to copyright.
Law Enforcement and Higher Education: Finding Common Ground to Address Underage Drinking on Campus
This publication was prepared by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) in support of the OJJDP Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program. It describes how to overcome some of the potential conflicts and barriers that may be encountered by colleges and universities and local law enforcement agencies as they try to collaborate to address alcohol-related problems. Distributed with permission from PIRE.
Leadership in the HIV and AIDS Response: A Toolkit for Teachers’ Unions to Promote Health and Improve Education
This toolkit has been developed to help teachers around the world protect themselves and their colleagues from HIV, and take effective leadership for HIV and AIDS and health education in schools. The tools in this kit are designed to be used by union leaders and members to reach colleagues and other adults. The toolkit can be used at the national level and cascade down to the local community level.
Leading inDeed: Guidelines for Implementing the STAR Tech Program of Professional Development
STAR Tech is a comprehensive professional development program that helps schools to integrate a range of technology tools into the curriculum to improve outcomes for diverse students. Leading inDeed guides district and school leaders through a five-phased implementation process.
Leading the Way in the Education Sector: Advocating for a Comprehensive Approach to HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean
This workbook is designed to help users advocate for a comprehensive approach to combating HIV and AIDS in the education sector.The frameworks, examples and worksheets provided here will guide users in designing an advocacy strategy to inform and influence policymakers and their colleagues.
Leading the Way: Disabilities Services and the Management Team
Leading the Way provides all Head Start managers with the skills and knowledge needed to plan and implement integrated services for children with disabilities and their families. The guide will help managers develop a broader view of their roles and set the stage for developing a more collaborative and coordinated way of working with each other and community agencies.
Learning About Assessment, Learning Through Assessment
The first of two books published through MSEB’s Assessment in Practice initiative, this book discusses ways to assist teachers in learning about assessment and how student work can be a rich resource in professional development.
Learning for Life: Classroom Activities for HIV and AIDS Education
This book provides activities to help students prevent new HIV infections and gain skills related to coping with all aspects of HIV and AIDS. Gaining this knowledge and these skills can help students live a healthy lifestyle, complete a basic education, and consequently reach their potential to attain their life goals.
Learning Mathematics for Teaching: Lessons in/from the Domain of Fractions
It is widely recognized that developing a successful teaching practice, one that is grounded in the principles that guide the current effort to reform mathematics education, requires a qualitatively different and significantly richer understanding of mathematics than most teachers in the 1990s possess. However, it is not as clear how teachers' mathematical understandings develop and how those understandings affect instruction. This paper explores two avenues for K--6 teachers' mathematical investigations--inquiry into mathematics itself, and inquiry into children's mathematical thinking--and illustrates how they arise in elementary teaching situations and how they can be explored in a professional development setting.
Learning to See: Observing Children’s Inquiry in Science—Professional Development Videos
Originally released in 1996, this re-release of Learning to See is a series of videos that show youth (ages 10–14) exploring basic phenomena in an open manner. These videos can be a useful resource for reflecting on pedagogical practices as part of study groups, workshops, and professional development institutes. They have relevance for the school and out-of-school context. The videos are minimally edited to show exploration in real time and authentic behavior. A facilitator’s guide providing a transcript of manipulations and talk-along with suggested discussion questions is included.
Legacy Wheel
Through this Web site, the Center will provide the tools, strategies and techniques that will support grantees to lead change in their systems and communities through achieving program goals and objectives.
Lehigh University's Project IMPACT: An Environmental Management Case Study
This case study describes the experience of Lehigh University's Project Involving Multiple Partners in Achieving a Cultural Transformation (IMPACT), a campus and community coalition formed to address problems resulting from risky student drinking. Implementation of revised alcohol policies coincided with substantial decreases in total campus crime and alcohol-related offenses. The case study includes a review of 12 key lessons for campus and community coalitions. Reprinted from Journal of Drug Education and Awareness, 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 59-75, with permission of Nova Science Publishers, Inc..
Lenses on Learning: How Administrators' Ideas About Mathematics, Learning, and Teaching Influence Their Approaches to Action in an Era of Reform
If the intellectual norms and values embedded in the mathematics education reform movement are to move beyond individual classrooms and significantly influence entire schools and districts, school and district administrators will need to become centrally, rather than peripherally, involved. This paper discusses the way that administrators' ideas about the nature of mathematics, learning, teaching, and school culture affect their interpretations of the nature and intent of the mathematics reform movement and their thoughts about how they might support it. In particular, administrators' views of parents' concerns, professional development for teachers, and how new ideas move around in a school are discussed. I suggest that administrators have well-formed ideas about mathematics, learning, and teaching, and that these ideas influence their views of reform and how to provide support. These ideas need to be taken into account if administrators are to be central actors in reform.
Lenses on Learning: Module 1, Instructional Leadership in Mathematics
The three-module set of Lenses on Learning professional development materials provides an opportunity for K-8 principals and other school and district leaders to learn about the fundamental ideas about mathematics, learning, and teaching in Standards-based K-8 mathematics classrooms and the implications for their own administrative practice.
In Module 1 participants think about the nature of Standards-based instruction and how it differs from a procedural approach to mathematics education. They also consider some of the norms and values that are embedded in Standards-based mathematics education and how these connect to school and district culture, and to their own leadership roles.
Lenses on Learning: Module 2, Teacher Learning for Mathematics Instruction
The three-module set of Lenses on Learning professional development materials provides an opportunity for K-8 principals and other school and district leaders to learn about the fundamental ideas about mathematics, learning, and teaching in Standards-based K-8 mathematics classrooms and the implications for their own administrative practice.
In Module 2 participants consider what kinds of support are necessary for teachers who are deepening their practice of teaching mathematics. They also reflect on ways in which a culture of critical colleagueship, in which teachers engage with each other in substantive and intellectually critical examinations of learning and teaching, might support learning in their own schools.
Lenses on Learning: Module 3, Observing Today's Mathematics Classroom
The three-module set of Lenses on Learning professional development materials provides an opportunity for K-8 principals and other school and district leaders to learn about the fundamental ideas about mathematics, learning, and teaching in Standards-based K-8 mathematics classrooms and the implications for their own administrative practice.
In Module 3 participants develop an "eye" for Standards-based elementary mathematics classrooms through watching and discussing videotapes of classrooms in transition. Participants' own mathematical investigations inform their thinking about the lessons they observe. Participants also consider what approaches to post-observation conferences with teachers might be most constructive, given that teachers are active constructors of their own knowledge about mathematics, learning and teaching.
Lenses on Learning: Module 4, Supervision–Focusing on Mathematical Thinking
This 8-session seminar addresses an audience of K-8 principals and other leaders. The seminar seeks to make possible better alignment between supervisory practices and the changes that are taking place in mathematics classrooms guided by the NCTM's Principles and Standards of School Mathematics. In particular, it helps participants learn to attend to the mathematical essence of a lesson and the mathematical thinking of students, and to think about what one might productively talk with teachers about in pre-and post-observation conferences.
Lesson Study in Practice: A Mathematics Staff Development Course
Through lesson study teachers develop a community for ongoing learning about mathematics and the craft of teaching. This course offers a structured introduction to lesson study in a learn-by-doing format. Participants develop the mathematical knowledge for teaching that they need while they work through a full lesson study cycle.
The course includes:
- 10 ready-to-go sessions complete with activities, professional readings, handouts, facilitator notes, and slides
- DVD with video of case study team in meetings and the classroom research lesson
- Comprehensive advice on organization, logistics, and the facilitation process.
Lessons in Geometry: I. Plane Geometry
This is a book in the tradition of Euclidean synthetic geometry written by one of the twentieth century's great mathematicians. The original audience was pre-college teachers, but it is useful as well to gifted high school students and college students, in particular, to mathematics majors interested in geometry from a more advanced standpoint.
The text starts where Euclid starts, and covers all the basics of plane Euclidean geometry. But this text does much more. It is at once pleasingly classic and surprisingly modern. The problems (more than 450 of them) are well-suited to exploration using the modern tools of dynamic geometry software. For this reason, the present edition includes a CD of dynamic solutions to select problems, created using Texas Instruments' TI-Nspire Learning Software. The TI-Nspire documents demonstrate connections among problems and—through the free trial software included on the CD—will allow the reader to explore and interact with Hadamard's Geometry in new ways. The material also includes introductions to several advanced topics. The exposition is spare, giving only the minimal background needed for a student to explore these topics. Much of the value of the book lies in the problems, whose solutions open worlds to the engaged reader.
And so this book is in the Socratic tradition, as well as the Euclidean, in that it demands of the reader both engagement and interaction. A forthcoming companion volume that includes solutions, extensions, and classroom activities related to the problems can only begin to open the treasures offered by this work. We are just fortunate that one of the greatest mathematical minds of recent times has made this effort to show to readers some of the opportunities that the intellectual tradition of Euclidean geometry has to offer.
A co-publication of EDC and the American Mathematical Society.
Lessons Learned About Providing Laptops for All Students
As a way of helping states and districts interested in laptop initiatives, EDC has reviewed published lessons learned from many laptop initiatives around the country and has prepared the paper, Lessons Learned About Providing Laptops for All Students. The lessons are presented in five main categories:
(1) Planning
(2)Training & Professional Development
(3) Managing Change
(4) Monitoring & Evaluation
(5) Hardware & Software
Lessons Learned from Moving the Haitian Out-Of-School Youth Livelihood Initiative (IDEJEN) Beyond the Pilot Phase
This report is part of a series of publications summarizing what is being learned “on the ground” from projects in more than a dozen countries, and is the product of the pilot phase of the first EQUIP3 Associate Award, the Haitian Out-of-School Youth Livelihood Initiative (IDEJEN). The report summarizes the lessons learned and makes recommendations for the IDEJEN project as it moved from a pilot phase with 650 youth to a large-scale national project serving 13,000 youth. The report examines the following aspects of the project: developing a knowledge base, nonformal basic education, life skills, technical/vocational training, livelihood accompaniment, capacity-building of local organizations, monitoring and evaluation, and partnerships.
Lessons Learned: Head Start's Experience with State Activities
Examines Head Start's relationship with state-funded preschool programs, explores the role of state associations in long-range planning, and describes successful strategies that have been implemented.
Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real Crisis in Public Education (2008 Election Edition)
This 2008 election edition reopens today’s critical issues in public education. Once again speaking to the next president, this stellar collection of more than thirty letters speaks to the future of American students and the need for an educated and engaged citizenry. Top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, students, and parents discuss the dangerous shortcomings of current state and federal policies and offer suggestions for what can be done about it.
Life Skills Approach to Child and Adolescent Healthy Human Development
This paper describes one best-practice model for contributing to the healthy development of adolescents: a life skills approach. The paper aims to present the theoretical and research foundations of a life skills approach; define life skills, analyze the challenges of implementing life skills programs, and develop a common language and vocabulary to advance the approach.
LifeWorks Youth Enterprise Development: A ROAD to HIV Prevention and Mitigation in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
This report is the result of a rapid assessment conducted by EDC in collaboration with Family Health International (FHI) in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The report's purposes are to assess entrepreneurship opportunities for youth in Bukavu and to design an entrepreneurship project to be incorporated into a FHI HIV/AIDS prevention initiative, ROADS (Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies).
Linking Data and Learning: The Grow Network Study
This research report examines how educators and administrators within the New York City public school system are using data–made available to them through the print and Web-based reporting system of the Grow Network–to inform decisions about teaching and learning and about educational practices.
Literacy for Out-of-School Youth: A Program Guide
This program guide offers a resource for development specialists initiating or strengthening integrated literacy programs for youth aged 15 to 24 who are not involved in formal education. The guide is divided into three parts: Part I makes the case for investment in integrated literacy programs for out-of-school youth, and explores how literacy skills are developed; Part II describes the policy context necessary to ensure the success of literacy programs for out-of-school youth; Part III includes a step-by-step process for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective literacy programs.
Live @ the Exploratorium–Origins: Final Evaluation Report
This report summarizes the evaluation activities and analyzes the findings related to a three–year evaluation of the Live @ the Exploratorium–Origins project, which used Webcasts and a Web site to disseminate scientific concepts and introduce groundbreaking scientists to a broader community.
Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Features the chapter "Fragments of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving" by David Browning of EDC’s Center for Applied Ethics. The chapter advises health care professionals to be faithful to the lived experience of their clients, and faithful to their own lived experience in their meetings with clients. The chapter advocates that caregiving be based on an ethnographic approach, borrowed from anthropology, in which caregivers seek a deeper understanding of their patients through careful looking, listening, and responding. Adopting an ethnographic stance requires a number of changes in end-of-life and bereavement care. Professional caregivers must: (1) validate and reclaim their vocations of caring from the dictates of a market economy and health care system driven by cost-efficiency and profit; (2) be careful not to allow diagnostic and treatment paradigms to overshadow or distort the human encounter that is at the core of their work; (3) see their personal knowledge of suffering as integral to the collaborative healing process between their clients and themselves;(4) be prepared to bear witness to suffering that may not always be transformed or transcended, but rather, endured.
Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners is the first textbook on palliative care for healthcare practitioners written from a social work perspective. It provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups.
Local Manufacturing Industry Skill Standards
This first publication in the series contains the foundation of the Project SMART program--the 40 Manufacturing Technician I skill standards. Y.O.U. and EDC have pioneered the integrated skill standard model in which tasks, skills, and knowledge are connected to workplace problem situations. The skill standards will be useful to employers and educators looking to create or update manufacturing training programs for current and future employees, and to evaluate workers' employability and effectiveness on the job.
Love Is Not Abuse
The Love Is Not Abuse Curriculum is a step-by step guide to teaching high school students about the issue of dating violence. Using literature and poetry, this program provides teachers with the tools to teach about this sensitive subject and is intended to be taught in either Health or English/Language Arts classes.
Making Science Curriculum Matter: Wisdom for the Reform Road Ahead
Based on the legacy of the National Science Foundation’s Instructional Materials Development program, this resource—edited by CSE’s past director, Judith Opert Sandler, and current director, Barbara Berns—represents the collective experiences of half of the eight “dissemination and implementation” centers that were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), beginning in 1997, to foster the understanding and use of exemplary mathematics and science instructional materials: the EDC K-12 Science Curriculum Dissemination center, housed in CSE; the IMPACT Center at the Center for the Enhancement of Science and Mathematics Education at Northeastern University in Boston; the K–8 Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform centers, based at the National Science Resources Center in Washington, D.C.; and the Science Curriculum Implementation Center at Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The NSF work was a cutting-edge experiment, and the centers were essentially “national truth seekers.” The idea was both to figure out how best to assist schools, districts, and states in using exemplary standards-based instructional materials (whether the materials were funded by the NSF or not) and to glean lessons from that work that might benefit the field.
Chapters include:
- Putting Curriculum at the Center of Science Education Reform
- Selecting Curriculum Materials: A Critical Step in Science Program Design, by Joseph A Taylor, BSCS
- Professional Development for Curriculum Awareness, Adoption, and Implementation, by Nancy M. Landes, BSCS
- The Role of Assessments and Accountability, by Sally Goetz Shuler, Judi Backman, and Steve Olson, NSRC
- Lessons Learned from Evaluation, by Katrina Laguarda, Policy Studies Associates, Inc.
- Using the Centers’ Work to Improve Science Education: Some Practical Advice
Making Science Mentors: A 10-Session Guide for Middle Grades
Making Science Mentors prepares effective mentors of middle school science teachers using a long-term, inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning how to be a more effective science educator. Developed under a grant from the National Science Foundation, the principles behind this guide’s procedures and materials were field-tested with 50 mentors and new teachers in a variety of middle schools.
Making Science Mentors comes with everything you need to set up and run a comprehensive program:
- 10 session-by-session lesson plans
- A planning and observation protocol to guide mentor-mentee interaction, both in conferences and during classroom observation
- Handouts and transparencies (on paper and on CD) for use in preparing mentors
- Video clips on DVD that show middle-grades science classrooms and teacher mentoring
This guide is ideal if you have state, district, or school-based teacher preparation programs and don’t want to start from scratch when setting up a research-based mentoring system.
Making Skill Standards Work: Highlights From The Field
This is a practical manual, filled with information and over 100 real examples and case studies from around the country, of how to use industry skill standards to improve education. The case studies and examples, demonstrate how educators, employers, government and other community members are creating and operating successful systems and programs, using skill standards to prepare people to enter the work force or continue to higher education. They provide creative methods for dealing with common stumbling blocks that such endeavors face.
Making the Most Of On-line Learning
This publication offers clear step-by-step guidance for anyone considering an on-line course. Explains the vocabulary of e-learning, the technology requirements; gives a sense of what to expect in a virtual learning environment and offers guidelines on how to make it work for the individual; and generally prepares first-time or novice course-takers for a successful experience.
Marijuana Use Among Students at Institutions of Higher Education
This Infofacts/Resources discusses the prevalence of marijuana use at colleges and universities, short- and long-term consequences of use, and its role as a possible barrier to academic success.
Math Education Practices for Students with Disabilities and other Struggling Learners: Case Studies of Six Schools in Two Northeast and Islands Region States
This report describes in-depth practices at six schools that are making targeted efforts to improve math education for students with disabilities and other struggling learners. It examines each school's practices for improving the math learning of all students as well as specific supports for students with disabilities and other struggling learners and identifies the challenges that schools face to serve students with diverse needs.
Math for All Participant Book (3–5)
Developed by EDC and Bank Street College of Education, this professional development program shows general and special education teachers how to collaborate to provide a high-quality, standards-based mathematics education to all students, including those with disabilities. The Math for All learning experiences detailed in the corresponding facilitator’s kit help teachers:
- Assess students’ strengths and needs
- Use multiple instructional strategies to teach specific math concepts
- Tailor lessons based on individual students' strengths and needs to help them achieve high-quality learning outcomes in mathematics
This program emphasizes how the neurodevelopmental demands of a math lesson interact with individual students' strengths and needs. The authors provide step-by-step guidance for adapting materials, activities, and instructional strategies to make lessons accessible to all students. This participant book includes the handouts and reproducibles for the program. The corresponding kit includes a facilitator’s guide and a corresponding DVD.
Mathematical Connections: A Companion for Teachers and Others
Mathematical Connections: A Companion for Teachers and Others is rooted in familiar high school mathematics—finding patterns, polynomial functions, trigonometric identities, the complex numbers, and counting problems—but delves much deeper to reveal many of the connections that make these topics all part of the same fabric. One of the book's primary audiences is high school teachers, both practicing and prospective. The book can also be used as a text for undergraduate or professional courses, and its design lends itself to self study.
Mathematics Curriculum: Issues, Trends, and Future Directions, 72nd Yearbook
Mathematics curriculum has long been a topic of keen interest in mathematics education and remains a central issue in efforts to improve mathematics learning opportunities for students.
This Yearbook continues in a long line of NCTM Yearbooks that have addressed various facets of the changing mathematics curriculum. Although some factors such as tradition can inhibit significant change, other factors such as policy (e.g., federal No Child Left Behind legislation), societal needs (mathematically literate graduates), and technological advances (computer software, calculators) foster and accelerate the need for change.
This Yearbook reflects some of the many issues that the field is currently discussing so it serves as both a record of current advances and a summary of challenges regarding curriculum. We hope that it will both guide and stimulate thinking about where we have been, where we are, and where we need to go.
Features chapters written by EDC:
- "Mathematics Applied to Curriculum Development: Lessons Learned on the Job" by Al Cuoco, Jean Benson, Bowen Kerins, Sarah Sword, and Kevin Waterman
- "How Do Districts Choose Mathematics Textbooks?" by June Mark, Deborah Spencer, Julie Koehler Zeringue, and Katherine Schwinden
Mathematics Formative Assessment: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
This book provides 75 formative assessment strategies and show teachers how to use them to inform instructional planning and better meet the needs of all students. Research shows that formative assessment has the power to significantly improve learning, and its many benefits include:
- Stimulation of metacognitive thinking
- Increased student engagement
- Insights into student thinking
- Development of a discourse community
Mathematics Teachers in Transition (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)
There is now a growing body of research on the nature of teacher change as it occurs in the context of the mathematics education reform movement. The chapters in this book have grown from and contribute to that stream of work. Studies of large-scale empirical work, long-term programs of research, and theoretical contributions to the understsanding of teacher change are reported, along with case studies of individual teachers, groups of teachers, and intervention projects. These chapters have been organized according to their general type into three sections. Theoretical perspectives on teacher change, context and instructional change, and professional development programs in action. The introduction and conclusion take an orthogonal cut through that organization to ask where professionals have come in the years since 1989 and to sketch out issues that lie ahead.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Buyer Beware
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students investigate ways to use "relative numbers"-- rates, ratios, percentages, and proportions to make fair comparisons and informed decisions.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Beside the Point
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students build on their understanding of fractions to study rational numbers. Through hands-on activities and investigations students develop a strong conceptual understanding of number operation, number sense, and place value. Connections are then made to the study of fractions, decimals, percent, and integers.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Chance Encounters
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students investigate probability through games involving coins, number cubes, and spinners. They represent probabilities using fractions, decimals, and percentages. They also use grids to compare theoretical and experimental probability. Macintosh software is available for this unit.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Designing Spaces
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students use geometry to analyze buildings from around the world and design model houses. They explore ways to represent three-dimensional structures in two dimensions.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Exploring the Unknown
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore linear functions, including graphs, tables, slopes, and intercepts. They also investigate solution methods.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Family Portraits
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students compare and contrast different types of functions, including exponential, quadratic, direct variation, and inverse variation functions.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: From the Ground Up
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students use scale, measurement, nets, and geometric constructions to build a model house. They investigate the areas of triangles, trapezoids, and polygons, and use area as the basis for estimating the cost of materials for their houses.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: From Wholes to Parts
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students use the number sense they have learned with whole numbers to begin investigating fractions. The investigations of this unit lead students to understand, represent, and use equivalent fractions to solve problems. The unit ends with students performing the four basic operations with fractions.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Getting Down To Business
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students simulate business situations using spreadsheets, formulas, and graphs to explore the concept of functions.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Getting in Shape
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore polygon properties, geometric patterns, and areas of circles and regular polygons.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Grade 6, Consolidated Student Guide
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. The following modules are contained in this edition: What Does the Data Say, The Language of Numbers, From Wholes to Parts, Designing Spaces, Beside the Point, Gulliver's Worlds, Patterns in Numbers and Shapes.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Grade 7, Consolidated Student Guide
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. The following modules are contained in this edition: Buyer Beware, Chance Encounters, Making Mathematical Arguments, From the Ground Up, The Language of Algebra, Getting Down to Business, Getting in Shape.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Grade 8, Consolidated Student Guide
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. The following modules are contained in this edition: Looking Behind the Numbers, Mathematics of Motion, Shapes and Space, What Comes Next, Exploring the Unknown, Roads and Ramps, Family Portraits
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Gulliver's Worlds
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore measurement, scaling, area, volume, and the concept of dimension as they visit the lands of giants and the lands of tiny people.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Looking Behind the Numbers
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore correlation in data by using scatterplots. They also use statistics to make comparisons and explore permutations by using listings, tree diagrams, and formulas.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Making Mathematical Arguments
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students make and justify generalizations about signed number operations, squares, cubes, roots, factors, multiples, and primes.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Mathematics of Motion
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students measure motions and represent them as rates, diagrams, maps, written descriptions, equations, and distance-time graphs. They investigate the concepts of relative distance, absolute distance, and average speed. Macintosh software is available for this unit.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Patterns in Numbers and Shapes
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students identify and describe patterns as an introduction to algebraic thinking. Graphing on a coordinate grid is a tool for understanding patterns.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Roads and Ramps
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students build a Slope-o-meter to explore slope and angle relationships, then build models of hills and determine the appropriate grade for the drive.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: Shapes and Space
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore three-dimensional figures through investigations into cross-sections, volume, and optimization.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: The Language of Algebra
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore the use of variables and expressions in solving problems as they work with equations, tables, and graphs.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: The Language of Numbers
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students explore a variety of number systems, both real and invented.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: What Comes Next?
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students learn about linear and exponential models while exploring change over time. They apply the models to real-world data and investigate the goodness-of-fit of a model.
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically: What does the Data Say?
Mathscape/Seeing and Thinking Mathematically is a complete middle-school mathematics curriculum. In this series of 21 units, students explore big ideas, essential processes, and basic skills. The series fully addresses National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and recommendations for teaching middle-school mathematics. In this unit, students collect data from surveys, measurements, and probability experiments.
MCH Agencies: Traffic Safety Partners Fact Sheet Packet
This packet consists of three fact sheets and two resource listings that address MCH as traffic safety partners. Topics include the scope of the problem, why traffic injuries happen, and what works to prevent these events. The resource listings give "ideas from the field" for promoting traffic safety and a Who's Who of relevant agencies and organizations.
Medical Interpreting Standards of Practice
Useful resource for coordinators of interpreter services, interpreters, trainers and health care providers who work with interpreters.
Meeting Summary and Recommendations: Clergy Workgroup on Suicide Prevention and Aftercare
A workgroup meeting was held by The Link’s National Resource Center for Suicide Prevention and Aftercare and Suicide Prevention Resource Center to identify clergy needs related to preventing and responding to suicide in the church community. This paper describes the process of the workgroup and provides a summary of the meeting’s content.
Meeting the Challenge: Twelve Recommendations for Improving End-of-life Care in Managed Care
This report presents recommendations of the National Task Force on End-of-Life Care in Managed Care, an interdisciplinary group of medical directors, nurses, and physicians from managed care organizations who have joined with national experts in palliative care, ethics, and quality improvement to consider the ways in which various features of managed care can be harnessed to improve the care of patients near the end of life and their families.
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and Child Care Partnerships
This study examines three areas relevant to migrant and seasonal farm children: the knowledge these children's families have about the child care system and child care services; the ability of these families to access child care services; and the extent and nature of collaboration between Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and state child care systems.
Misconceptions or P--prims: How Might Alterrnative Perspectives of Cognitive Structure Influence Instructional Perceptions and Intentions
The notion that students come to science courses with misconceptions has become quite widely accepted by those who follow or participate in education research. DiSessa and his colleagues (diSessa, 1988, 1993; Smith, diSessa, & Roschelle, 1993) have challenged the theoretical and empirical validity of the misconceptions perspective and offered an alternative account of cognitive structure in "phenomenological primitives," or "p-prims." The purpose of this article is to further clarify and contrast the two accounts, in particular to consider their utility and generativity as conceptual tools for teachers; in other words, how might each perspective influence instructional perceptions and intentions? The article recounts a discussion about forces and motion from a high school physics class; analyzes how a teacher might perceive students' participation in that discussion from either perspective; and considers what, based on those perceptions, the teacher might see as tasks for instruction.
More Than Just a Group: Teacher Collaboration and Learning in the Workplace
From Teachers and Teaching August 2007, Volume 13 Issue 4. Teaching is often characterized as an isolated activity, yet opportunities for teachers to work and learn together in schools are increasing. Underlying this shift is the view that as teachers work on new practices and teaching challenges together, they will express varied perspectives, reveal different teaching styles and experiences, and stimulate reflection and professional growth. Despite strong research interest in teacher learning groups, few studies have looked at the relationship between teachers' conversations and collaboration outside the classroom and their actual classroom teaching. Drawing on data from a larger study of literacy instruction with middle-school teachers, this article describes how three teachers participated in an ongoing literacy program with a research group. Two were seventh- and eighth-grade language-arts teachers, the third was a special-education teacher who taught a substantially separate class of cognitively delayed and learning-disabled students. Case studies of each teacher draw on meeting observations, classroom observations and interviews to describe how each participated in afterschool meetings, how they used the work of the group in the classroom, and how they brought teaching successes and challenges back to the group.
More Than Title IX: How Equity in Education has Shaped the Nation
Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of one of the most powerful instruments of change—education. The book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and men in America over the past century, the authors remind readers not to take freedoms for granted.
Mpilonhle Mobile Health and Education Project: HIV and AIDS Activities 1–8 (Year 1) for Youth in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
EDC is working with Mpilonhle, a local South African NGO, by creating the materials used to educate adolescents from twelve schools in KwaZulu-Natal province about healthy behaviors. The HIV and AIDS materials developed for the Mpilonhle Mobile Health and Education Project focus on disease prevention as well as health promotion and wellness. They incorporate a participatory learning and skills building approach in order to help youth gain knowledge and improve their attitudes and behaviors related to health.
Multiple Media Curriculum: Investigation Stations: Animals in Their World
This is one unit of a technology-based curriculum for grades 1--3. The curriculum is interdisciplinary, centering on literacy and science learning. In this unit, students use a database of 50 animals to investigate some universal characteristics: feeding, adaptation to habitat, development of young, and methods of movement. Students learn and compare how different animals accomplish these basic behaviors; in doing so, they begin to see some of the diversity in the animal world.
Multiple Media Curriculum: Investigation Stations: Many Places, Friendly Faces
This is one unit of a technology-based curriculum for grades 1?3. The curriculum is interdisciplinary, centering on literacy and science learning. In this unit, students use a visual database of 10 countries to learn about the lives of children around the world. Activities involve students in the geography, unique customs, language, and games typical in different countries. Children become more aware of the diversity--and commonality--of the world’s peoples.
Multiple Media Curriculum: Investigation Stations: Changes
This is one unit of a technology-based curriculum for grades 1--3. The curriculum is interdisciplinary, centering on literacy and science learning. In this unit, emergent readers learn about natural changes by investigating seasonal change and the life cycles of plants and animals. They learn to use sequence as a way to structure their research and their reading and writing.
National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) CD-ROM
NCIP gathers and synthesizes information about effective uses of technology for students with disabilities. One of the many ways in which NCIP disseminates this vital information is through its series of videos and now with a CD-ROM.
Titles include:
- Jeff with Expression: Writing with Word Prediction Software
- Welcome to My Preschool: Communicating with Technology
- Multimedia and More: Help for Students with Learning Disabilties
National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) Videos Set
NCIP gathers and synthesizes information about effective uses of technology for students with disabilities. One of the many ways in which NCIP disseminates this vital information is through its series of videos.
Titles include:
- Jeff with Expression: Writing with Word Prediction Software
- Successful Science: Technology and Support for Students with Disabilities
- "Write" Tools for Angie: Technology for Students Who Are Visually Impaired
- Welcome to My Preschool: Communicating with Technology
- Telling Tales in ASL and English: Reading, Writing, and Videotapes
- Multimedia and More: Help for Students with Learning Disabilties
Netsilik Eskimo Series
These films reveal the live reality of traditional Eskimo life before the European acculturation. The Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic had long lived apart from other people and had depended entirely on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigors of the Arctic year. The filming was done during the summers of 1963 and 1964 and in the late winter of 1965 under the ethnographic direction of Dr. Asen Balikci of the University of Montréal, assisted by Guy Mary-Rousseliere, O.M.I., both anthropologists of wide Arctic experience. Quentin Brown was Producer-Director, and Kevin Smith the Executive Producer for the series. A minimum of cultural reconstruction was required during the filming; the Netsilik families readily agreed to live in the old way once more and showed considerable aptitude in recalling and representing the earlier ways of life.
All videos are in color, with the natural sounds of the region and of the Eskimos' activities but with no voice other than those of the Eskimos. The films were originally released in 1967. The effect of this film series is that of a field trip where students can observe Eskimo ways at their leisure and form their own impressions. The pace is unhurried; many of the Eskimo activities are shown in close detail. The films are useful for courses in economic anthropology, development of technology and North American aboriginal cultures, in general studies of the circumpolar culture area, as well as for high school and upper elementary grades. This series is a part of the widely used elementary social studies curriculum, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS).
Learn more about MACOS: http://www.macosonline.org/
New Measures of English Language Proficiency and Their Relationship to Performance on Large-Scale Content Assessments
Using assessment results for 5th and 8th grade English language learner students in three Northeast and Island Region states, the report finds that the English language domains of reading and writing (as measured by a proficiency assessment) are significant predictors of performance on reading, writing, and mathematics assessments and that the domains of reading and writing (literacy skills) are more closely associated with performance than are the English language domains of speaking and listening (oral skills).
No Teacher Left Unqualified: How Teachers and Principals Respond to the Highly Qualified Mandate
In this paper, the authors examine the NCLB definition of a "highly qualified" teacher, the combined nature of federal and state highly qualified mandates, and how science teachers and their principals in one large, urban distract have responded.
This article originally appeared in Science Educator, Volume 20, Issue 1.
Northeast Injury Prevention Network Suicide Databook
This databook represents a cooperative effort by state health departments in Public Health Departments in Regions I and II to describe the extent of suicide in the Northeast. The Northeast Injury Prevention Network is a volunteer public health organization dedicated to the collaboration and sharing of ideas among eight state health departments: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Northeast Injury Prevention Network: Poison Databook
Produced by the eight state Northeast Injury Prevention Network (NEIPN) in collaboration with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the MCHB Poison Control and Prevention Program, the Poison Data Book examines extent of the problem, and the intent, cause and potential risk factors of poisoning events in each state and across the region. Regionally there were averages of 3,246 deaths, 34,276 hospital discharges and 279,446 calls to Poison Control Centers related to poisoning annually. Poisoning incidents are often perceived as mainly due to unintentional ingestion by young children, yet significant numbers of poisonings are due to adolescent suicide attempts, overdoses of narcotics and psychodysleptics (hallucinogens), and medication mismanagement by elders. Appendices include ICD9/CM poisoning related codes, state-by-state tables of poison related deaths and hospitalizations by age, sex and ethnicity, tables of Poison Control Center data, a directory of Poison Control Centers in the northeast and a glossary of terms used in the Data Book.
NSCM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership (Spring 2006)
"A Framework for the Strategic Use of Classroom Artifacts in Mathematics Professional Development" describes a framework for the strategic use of artifacts in the facilitation of math professional development, and identifies examples of these strategies. The framework was developed as part of the Turning to the Evidence project here at EDC. Issue edited with an introduction by EDC's Mark Driscoll.
Nutrition as an Entry Point for Health-Promoting Schools: Lessons from China
This article from Food, Nutrition and Agriculture focuses on the creation of health-promoting schools in China. These schools aim to improve the food intake and dietary behavior of students, school personnel and parents through nutrition education, improved school meal services, and other activities.
NVDRS and Suicide: How the National Violent Death Reporting System is Being Used to Prevent Suicide
This fact sheet highlights ways in which National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) data have been used for suicide prevention.
Observing Mathematics Lessons: What Does It Mean for Principals to be Up-to-Speed?
An article from the Fall/Winter 2010/2011 issue of NCSM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership
EDC has been researching the supervisory practices in mathematics of a national sample of principals with various degrees of leadership content knowledge (LCK). This article describes the supervisory practices in mathematics of a subset of 13 principals with a range of LCK profiles.
Ohio Head Start Plus Study Final
Report of findings of a survey research study of Ohio’s Title IV-A Head Start Plus Program examining differences in quality of care, teacher education/professional development, and access to services between participating and non-participating providers.
Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods
Inspired by a recent conference on usable knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this book offers clear and practical answers to questions about online professional development. The authors look closely at exemplary online programs, compare them carefully with one another, and draw helpful conclusions about them—both for those who develop online programs, and for teachers and administrators in search of professional development programs that make a difference. Features the chapter: "EdTech Leaders Online: Building Organizational Capacity to Provide Effective Online Professional Development" by Glenn M. Kleiman and Barbara Treacy of EDC’s Center for Online Professional Education.
Opportunities to Learn Audit: High School Science
In an attempt to ensure that all Massachusetts students reach a minimal level of proficiency in science and technology, high school students of the class of 2010 will have to earn a passing score on one MCAS science exam (biology, chemistry, physics, or technology/engineering) in order to receive a diploma. Given that the state is now holding all students accountable for their performance in science, it is necessary to examine whether or not all students are receiving equitable opportunities to learn and succeed in science. This report seeks to identify concretely what top-performing schools do to support science instruction and to draw out considerations for policymakers at the district and state levels. EDC's Center for Science Education collaborated on this reported and collected and analyzed the data used. However, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of EDC's Center for Science Education.
Organizing a Curriculum Around Mathematical Habits of Mind (an article from "Mathematics Teacher")
Building coherence in the development of mathematical ideas across the grades is key to improving students' mathematical learning in the USA. Knowing the mathematical experiences, understanding, skills, and habits of mind that students bring to a grade level and what the expectations are for the following grades can help teachers bridge the trtansitions for students on each end.
Article from Mathematics Teacher (May 2010, Volume 103, Issue 9).
Organizing for Literacy: How Public Media Stations Are Raising Readers in Their Communities. A Case Study Report to the Ready to Learn Initiative
Since 1994 Ready to Learn has been the primary source of funding for early childhood television programming and related outreach activities by local public television stations across the United States. As part of a summative evaluation of the Ready to Learn initiative, EDC and SRI International conducted case studies to investigate how stations developed educational outreach for high-need children and families. Findings from successful sites can help policymakers both understand the potential of this new strategy and identify possible roles for stations and persistent challenges they are likely to face in implementing this type of educational outreach. The report also lists the strengths of public media stations as early childhood and literacy partners and the challenges they may encounter conducting future state or federal educational improvement projects.
Out-of-School Youth in Developing Countries: What the Data Do (and Do Not) Tell Us
This report presents an analysis of existing data profiling the status of out-of-school youth in developing countries. The report points out the value and limitations of an existing data set—the Demographic and Health Surveys—administered in 75 countries every five years since 1984.
Parent Involvement Strategies in Urban Middle and High Schools in the Northeast and Islands Region
This report summarizes efforts to develop and pilot test a protocol for collecting information about parent involvement policies, practices, and programs being implemented at the middle and high school levels. The protocol can be used to expand documentation of strategies selected, adapted, and sustained in future years.
Parental Notification
Many colleges and universities have begun disclosing students’ alcohol- and drug-related problems to parents, and researchers at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) have analyzed survey responses from judicial affairs officers at 189 institutions to assess the initial results of those efforts. This 2-page flyer looks at evidence of effectiveness and offers guidelines for implementing such policies.
Partnering Programs More Likely to Provide Comprehensive Services (Vol. 2, Number 1)
Describes the screenings, referrals, and services offered by child care centers in partnership with Head Start and comparison centers not involved in partnership. Researchers found that centers in partnership are more likely to provide screenings, referrals, and services.
Paving the Road to Health Together: Case Studies of Interagency Collaboration
Profiles collaborations between state DOHs and non-traditional partners to address traffic safety issues. Covers areas of infrastruction, data, program design, implementation, and evaluation, technical assistance to state and local partners, and policy changes to promote traffic safety. Case examples discuss specific experiences of the programs, barriers encountered, lessons learned and success stories.
PEACE: A Comprehensive Approach for the Prevention of Substance Abuse
While many theories have been developed over the years to understand the nature of drug use and abuse, one of the most useful models for program planners is the perspective on risk and protective factors. This document examines the likelihood a person is going to engage in drug use is related to a series of negative (risk) factors and positive (protective) factors that are present in that individual and in the environment in which he or she lives.
PEACE: Social Marketing as a Key Communication Strategy
This document provides an awareness and understanding of the drug problem through the designing of public communication strategies.
Perceptions of a Quadrilateral in a Dynamic Environment (a chapter from "Medium and Meaning: Video Papers in Mathematics Education Research, JRME Monograph #13")
On paper, a quadrilateral appears however you draw it, and has whatever characteristics you ascribe to it. In a dynamic environment, points can be dragged so that the figure becomes a "triangle with an extra marked point on one side" or even self-intersecting, challenging students' ideas about what a quadrilateral is, and what properties are truly independent of the configuration of points. This video paper shows students' thinking as they investigate this situation.
Performance Patterns for Students with Disabilities in Grade 4 Mathematics Education in New York State
This report describes the mathematics performance of grade 4 students with disabilities across schools categorized by need-to-resource capacity and compares their performance by school with that of general education students across New York State from 2003 to 2005. It finds that the percentage of students with disabilities scoring proficient increased over time and that the proficiency gap between this subgroup and general education students narrowed by 1 percentage point.
Perspectives on Curricular Change: Interviews with Teachers, Administrators, and Curriculum Developers
Features edited interviews with teachers and administrators who have implemented Standards-based, mathematics programs in their schools, as well as interviews with the developers of each program. Interviewees talk about their experiences using the programs and explain the selection and implementation strategies used in their settings. This series includes three books, covering the elementary, middle, and high school grades.
Perspectives on the Design and Development of School Mathematics Curricula
Prepared in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum and with support from the National Science Foundation, Perspectives on the Design and Development of School Mathematics Curricula offers multiple perspectives on the design and development of Standards-based curricula by fifteen comprehensive curriculum development projects.
It features the following chapters written by EDC:
- "The Case of Think Math!" by Paul Goldenberg and Nina Shteingold
- "The Case of MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically in the Middle Grades" by Glenn Kleiman, Emily Fagan, Susan Janssen, Amy Brodesky, and Dan Toibin
- "Design and Development of Grades 9–12 Standards-Based Curricula" by Al Cuoco
Piloting a Searchable Database of Dropout Prevention Programs in Nine Low-Income Urban School Districts in the Northeast and Islands Region
Despite evidence that some dropout prevention programs have positive effects, whether districts in the region are using such evidence-based programs has not been documented. This report details a pilot project to generate and share knowledge by building a searchable database of dropout programs and policies.
Planning Campus Events
Homecoming and other seasonal events are important traditions at many colleges and universities, yet are often associated with heavy alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. This Prevention Update explores ways to change these events and to begin new traditions in order to reduce alcohol and other drug (AOD)-related problems.
Planting the Seeds of Equity: Proceedings of the Inter-American Forum “The Role of Education in Preventing Gender-based Violence”
Bilingual Spanish and English proceedings from the Gender and Diversities Institute's inter-American forum. Includes presentation abstracts and summaries of discussions, with contributions from researchers and practitioners throughout the Americas.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Guide
The guide is divided into five sections: Understanding Your Audience, Understanding Your Local School System, Partnering to Reach a Shared Vision, Sustaining a Relationship with Administrators, and Advice from Successful SS/HS Projects.
Positive Partnerships: A Toolkit for the Greater Involvement of People Living with or Affected by HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean Education Sector
The toolkit aims to assist education sector staff, networks of people living with HIV, and others to apply the principles for the greater involvement of people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS (GIPA) in a comprehensive approach for the education sector’s response to HIV and AIDS.
The toolkit includes 10 activities, each requiring from 1 to 3 hours, which can be modified as needed. The activities introduce the basics of HIV and AIDS, the concept of GIPA, and ways its principles can be incorporated into a comprehensive approach for the education sector’s HIV and AIDS initiatives. It includes capacity building activities focused on advocacy skills. The issues surrounding stigma and discrimination, as well as confidentiality and disclosure, are addressed via case studies and role plays.
Power Users of Technology
Power Users of information and communication technologies are individuals who break out of the confines of traditional learning, demographic or technological barriers by constantly using, sharing, creating, producing or changing information in creative, innovative and/or unintended ways so that they become force multipliers in their own environments.
Preparing for the Perfect Storm—A Report on the Forum Taking Action Together: Developing a National Action Plan to Address the "T&E" of STEM
This report on the Taking Action Together forum includes recommendations from more than 150 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and business professionals for actions to build a robust technology and engineering pipeline.
Preschool Teachers Can Use a Media-Rich Curriculum to Prepare Low-Income Children for School Success: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (Summative Evaluation of the Ready to Learn Initiative)
The Ready to Learn Initiative is a program to develop educational television programming, online games, and outreach activities that increase school readiness for 2- to 8-year-old children living in low-income households. This study reports that preschool teachers who implement a curriculum that integrates video content with teacher-led activities can improve their students’ early literacy skills. Given training and support in classroom activities to reinforce the skills presented in the videos, the teachers were able to conduct the curriculum successfully and help their students learn.
Presidential Profiles
Presidents profiled for their leadership on the issue of high-risk drinking include Jessica Kozloff, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania; Sidney Ribeau, Bowling Green State University; David Roselle, University of Delaware; Graham Spanier, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Carothers, University of Rhode Island; and John D. Wiley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems on Campus: Acquaintance Rape: A Guide for Program Coordinators
Acquaintance rape and alcohol often go hand in hand. The prevalence of this crime reflects inappropriate norms about sexual behavior-norms embedded in all aspects of our society. This guide offers detailed information on implementing or improving policies and programs to address this complex and pervasive problem as it affects college students.
Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems on Campus: Methods for Assessing Student Use of AOD
To develop effective programs and policies for reducing alcohol-related problems on campus, college administrators need to understand fully the nature and extent of these problems at their school. They can achieve this understanding only if they have reliable data on patterns of student alcohol consumption and drinking-related risk behavior. The best way to obtain these data is to conduct an annual survey using a random selection of student respondents. This guide offers a straightforward method for gathering and interpreting student survey data on alcohol-related problems. The procedure is based on the methodology used in a national college alcohol study conducted in 1993 by the Harvard School of Public Health. It can easily be adapted for all college and university campuses.
Important Note: Although the survey methodology recommended by this publication is still sound, the cited Harvard data were collected from colleges and universities in 1993. In 1997 and 1999, these institutions were resurveyed, and these results were published in 1998 and 2000. For the most recent results from the College Alcohol Study, and for links to an article comparing the 1993 and 1997 results, please go to http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/.
Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems on Campus: Substance-Free Residence Halls
Setting up and expanding substance-free living areas is one method colleges can use to reduce binge drinking and modify inappropriate drinking norms. This publication provides practical guidance based on the experiences of 12 colleges and universities that have implemented substance-free housing. Topics covered include the benefits of substance-free housing to students and colleges alike, how to start a substance-free housing area, tips for lasting success, and a description of two fraternities that have become substance free.
Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems on Campus: Vandalism
Vandalism can take many forms, from trashing dormitories to writing graffiti. Student vandalism may be associated with binge drinking, peer pressure, the need to obtain money to buy drugs, hostility toward the school, or a combination of these and other factors. This bulletin provides concrete suggestions for the components of a comprehensive approach to reducing student vandalism. Learn from the examples of colleges and universities where these efforts are showing signs of success.
Preventing Bullying: The Role of the Public Health Professional
This fact sheet describes characteristics of bullies and victims and the long term consequences affecting bullies, victims, and their communities. Recommendations for public health professionals to prevent bullying are offered as well as a list of organizations which provide reliable information and assistance on bullying prevention.
Preventing Injuries and Violence in Schools: New Resources for Public Health Professionals
An information sheet describing the extent of children's injuries at or on the way to and from school, the role of public health professionals, and new resources for prevention activities. These resources include new school health guidelines and initiatives from federal agencies and professional organizations, directories of key federal and national programs as well as organizations and research centers that can assist in school injury prevention.
Preventing School Violence: The Role of the Public Health Professional
These fact sheets discuss the scope of the school violence problem and provide specific strategies and recommendations for public health professionals to address the issue. They present case examples of creative ways school violence prevention programs were implemented in five states, such as partnering with private foundations, state and federal agencies, and community groups, or by integrating school violence prevention into existing school health or violence prevention programs. Potential partners from outside the public health arena to engage in preventing school violence are suggested and a list of agencies and organizations offering resources and assistance in school violence prevention is included.
Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools
This publication assists high schools and school districts in designing and implementing strategies to prevent suicide and promote behavioral health. Includes tools to implement a multi-faceted suicide prevention program that responds to the needs and cultures of students. This toolkit was prepared for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) in collaboration with EDC and NASMHPD Research Institute.
Preventing Violence and Promoting Safety in Higher Education Settings: Overview of a Comprehensive Approach
This publication was developed to help campuses prevent violence and promote safety. It reviews the scope of campus violence problems, describes the wide array of factors that cause and contribute to violence, outlines a comprehensive approach to reducing violence and promoting safety on campus, and lists specific recommendations that administrators, students, faculty, staff, and community members can follow to review and improve their policies and strengthen their programs and services. The document concludes with vignettes describing initiatives specific campuses have undertaken to reduce violence and promote a safe environment.
Preventing Youth Suicide in Rural America: Recommendations to States
SPRC and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association formed a workgroup to generate recommendations to prevent suicide among rural youth. This report details the recommendations for state-level agencies to address promoting help-seeking behaviors, data and surveillance, services, screening and identification, gatekeeper training, bereavement, and survivor issues.
Prevention Briefs
Recruiting and Retaining Mentors, Youth Courts, Truancy Prevention, Implementation Research, Social and Emotional Learning, How Schools Can Prevent Suicide, Recognizing and Responding to the Warning Signs of Suicide: A Guide for Teachers and School Staff, Key Strategies for Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention I: Working with Children and Families, Key Strategies for Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention II: Working with the Classroom and the School Environment, Key Strategies for Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention III: Working in the Community, Meeting the Needs of Latino Youth: Part I: Risk, Meeting the Needs of Latino Youth: Part II: Resilience, Preventing Bullying in Schools and the Community, Risk and Resilience 101, Substance Abuse, Violence, Mental Health, and Academic Success, Evaluation: Designs and Approaches, Hiring an Evaluator, Managing an Evaluator.
Prevention File
EDC's Center for College Health and Safety collaborated on a special issue of the magazine Prevention File devoted to the topic of treatment for alcohol and other drug problems in college students. The issue includes articles on responding to the growing need for treatment services for students, an overview of the BASICS brief motivational enhancement intervention, and information on existing campus-based recovery programs.
Prevention File (Back issues focused on higher education)
Prevention File reports on current research, field experiences, public policy applications, innovations, trends, and strategies. Each spring, The Silver Gate Group of San Diego publishes a special higher education issue of Prevention File.
Prevention Progress at Penn State (a Catalyst reprint)
Describes the efforts of the Penn State president and the Commission for the Prevention of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Abuse to roll back binge drinking rates and overcome a party school reputation.
Principal Leadership (November 2006)
"Welcoming Latino Parents as Partners," by EDC's Amy Aparicio Clark and Amanda Dorris, describes the Postsecondary Access to Latino Middle-Grades Students project and the need for schools to reach out to and involve Latino parents in their children’s education.
Principal Leadership (September 2006)
"Blogs Ending Isolation," by Cindy Mata Aguilar and Heather Rivero of EDC’s Center for Family, School, and Community, describes how Web logs help teachers in a professional development course stay connected despite geographic isolation. "Fishing for Information: Finding Online Resources," by EDC’s Judith Zorfass and Jennifer Minotti, describes our Literacy Matters Web site.
Principals in Partnership with Math Coaches (Principal Magazine May/June 2009)
One of the most promising developments in math education is the fact that many districts are hiring math coaches—also called math resource teachers, math facilitators, math lead teachers, or math specialists—to assist elementary-level teachers with math instruction. What must not be lost, however, is that principals play an essential role in supporting math coaches’ work. While it might be assumed that the math coach is hired to "take care of" math teaching and learning in the school, thus freeing principals for other responsibilities, schools actually make the most progress when principals work in close partnership with math coaches.
Proceedings: First Meeting and Creation of the Caribbean Network of Health Promoting Schools
The document includes a summary of school health activities and status of HFLE in each of the 14 Caribbean countries. It also includes formal presentation by several international agencies such as WHO, PAHO, and EDC.
Processes and Challenges in Identifying Learning Disabilities Among English Language Learner Students in three New York State Districts
To help districts accurately identify students who are English language learners and also have learning disabilities, this study examines practices and challenges in the processes applied in three New York State districts in identifying learning disabilities among students who are English language learners. Using interviews with district and school personnel and documents from state and district web sites, the study finds both similarities and differences in practices, with more differences in the prereferral process than in the referral process. It identifies eight challenges to the identification of learning disabilities in English language learner students: difficulties with policy guidelines; different stakeholder views about timing for referral of English language learner students; insufficient knowledge among personnel involved in identification; difficulties providing consistent, adequate services to English language learner students; lack of collaborative structures in prereferral; lack of access to assessments that differentiate between second language development and learning disabilities; lack of consistent monitoring of struggling students who are English language learners; and difficulty obtaining students' previous school records. Further analysis suggests five interrelated elements that appear to be important for avoiding misidentification of learning disabilities among students who are English language learners: adequate professional knowledge, effective instructional practices, effective and valid assessment and interventions, interdepartmental collaborative structures, and clear policy guidelines.
Project Resource Guide
This is a guide to help SS/HS grantees review the progress of their grant and engage partners in both the leadership and management aspects of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative. It reflects the experiences of over 200 SS/HS sites in achieving program outcomes and creating systems change. The narrative discusses the unique phase of start-up and delineates its key tasks, concerns, partnerships, and events. Subsequent sections focus on implementation, partnership and collaborations, evaluation, and sustainability.
Promoting Bicycle Safety for Children: Strategies and Tools for Community Programs
This tool was created for State Maternal & Child Health (MCH) and injury prevention programs to disseminate to local health departments and community organizations interested in developing effective bike safety programs for children and youth. The document summarizes strategies drawn from comprehensive reviews of high quality evaluations to ensure the best possible chances of success. It includes a discussion of bicycle injuries among children and provides annotated lists of the following resources: guides for planning programs; contacts for partners and funding; program evaluation guides; and sources of "off-the-shelf" education materials for dissemination to parents, kids and communities.
Promoting Children's Mental Health: The SAMSHA/CMHS Prevention and Early Intervention Grant Program
The Review features outcomes and lessons learned from 26 Prevention/Early Intervention grantees. The monograph highlights accomplishments achieved in community-level prevention/early intervention programs for children's mental health.
Promoting Health Through Schools: Report of a World Health Organization Expert Committee on Comprehensive School Health Education and Promotion
This report synthesizes the important background information that led to the creation and justification of the Global School Health Initiative. It emphasizes that education and health are inseparable, and illustrates and elaborates on the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee on Comprehensive School Health Education and Promotion. It can be used to advocate for school health programs.
Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Suicide in College and University Settings
This paper summarizes what is known about suicidal behavior among college students and recommends strategies to promote mental health and prevent suicide on campuses. The writing reflects the views of experts in the field of suicide prevention and proposes a blueprint for planning a comprehensive program.
Promoting Safe Work for Young Workers: A Community-Based Approach
Produced by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, this resource guide documents the experience of three Young Worker Projects in Massachusetts and California. It describes steps for working with schools, parents, job training programs, employers, and more. Extensive resources are also provided.
Promoting Teen Driving Safety: Strategies and Tools for Community Programs
This manual includes information about: the scope of teen driving injuries; evidence-based prevention strategies; and development of teen driving safety.
Promoting Traffic Safety for Children and Adolescents: State Health Departments in Action
Describes the results of a scan of 10 state health departments, one in each NHTSA region, to learn of traffic safety activities. Provides information on state programs and initiatives concerning child passenger safety, impaired driving prevention, bicycle safety, pedestrian safety and seat belts.
Protecting Working Teens: A Public Health Resource Guide
Aimed primarily at public-health professionals, this book addresses the topic of occupational injuries to adolescents. Part One provides an overview of adolescent employment, the scope of the injury problem and its relationship to violations of child labor laws, and the factors that make teen workers different from adults. Part Two describes useful resources, including data sources, agencies and organizations involved in the issue, selected readings, and a summary of federal child labor laws.
Providing School- and District-Level Support for Science Education Reform
This article, originally published in the Science Educator, argues that improving students' scientific understanding and performance is a major undertaking. It requires making significant changes to both science curriculum and instruction. If this undertaking is to be successful, it will require the active support and participation of all stakeholders in our students' education.
Quranic Schools: Agents of Preservation and Change
Islamic culture and its institutions, so often misrepresented and misunderstood by Westerners, is here articulated in Quranic Schools: Agents of Preservation and Change. Dating to the seventh century AD, these schools are indeed vestiges of the past. But they are equally reflective of Islam as it is lived today. Through ethnographic research in Morocco, Yemen, and Nigeria, this volume illustrates the various and changing roles of Quranic schools in both preserving and transforming social, educational, and religious practices. Helen Boyle is the director of the Center for International Basic Education (IBE), a center within EDC's International Education Systems Division (IES).
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Alcohol and Other Drug Use
Research suggests that college and university students of color use alcohol and other drugs less than white students do. This Infofacts/Resources explores the connection between racial and ethnic differences and alcohol and other drug use and suggests ways to make prevention programs more appropriate for a diverse student body.
Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) in Zanzibar: Impact Study
The Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) project is a partnership between Zanzibar’s Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) and EDC funded by the United States Agency for International Development. It was established in Zanzibar in 2006 to develop and pilot several models of early childhood education service delivery for children in the most underserved areas. Working collaboratively with Zanzibar’s MoEVT, RISE has helped build on and expand Zanzibar’s existing early childhood education infrastructure through its Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) activities.
IRI is an interactive teaching and learning methodology that promotes quality learning in diverse environments, including those with shortages of qualified teachers, school infrastructure, and learning materials. Based on child-friendly pedagogy that is inclusive, playful, active, and engaging for young students, each 30-minute broadcast integrates the formal Zanzibar curriculum with games, songs, stories, and activities that encourage problem solving and self-directed exploration.
To assess the impact of the project, RISE conducted a comprehensive evaluation between January and December 2008 with two purposes:
- Measure the learning gains of IRI beneficiaries
- Investigate the effectiveness of different IRI delivery models
Raising More Voices than Mugs: Changing the College Alcohol Environment through Media Advocacy
Media advocacy is an environmental strategy that can be used to support alcohol prevention and policy development efforts. This guide will help prevention program coordinators and students use media advocacy to bring attention to alcohol-related problems on campus and help win support for the solutions, while effectively countering the arguments of groups with differing viewpoints. Sections review the role of alcohol on college campuses, discuss the key elements of media advocacy, describe how to gain access to the media, and look at four policy areas that may be affected through media advocacy. (Developed by the Advocacy Institute.)
Rapid Youth Assessment in the Eastern Caribbean
A rapid youth assessment was conducted in Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts/Nevis, and Antigua to inform USAID/Eastern Caribbean's strategic planning. The assessment sought to determine the realities faced by 15-20 year-olds in the region and identify the resources and programs youth have access to. These findings and strategic options for USAID/EC’s youth strategy are presented in this report.
Reaching Students in the Gaps: A Study of Assessment Gaps, Students, and Alternatives
In February 2005, four New England states (Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine) received a U.S. Department of Education grant to explore gaps in large-scale assessment systems that prevent some students from demonstrating their proficiency. The results of this work, Reaching Students In the Gaps, addresses the following questions:
- Who are the students in the gaps?
- Of all the students who are not proficient, how can states identify those who are in the assessment gaps?
- What are the attributes of students in the gaps, and how do these students perform?
- What issues in the assessments themselves contribute to the gaps?
- Are there specific aspects of multiple-choice items used in state assessments that contribute to the assessment gaps?
The studies used multiple methods to explore these research questions, each providing a particular angle from which to consider the issues of assessment gaps, students in those gaps, and assessment alternatives to lessen the gaps.
Ready or Not: A Study Guide for Medical School Faculty
This 16-page guide is be used with the video Ready or Not. It tracks medical students enrolled in a course at Harvard Medical School, which pairs students with patients who are dying. Guide includes cues for writing and discussion, targeted bibliography and websites with relevant tools.
The End-of-Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) which peer reviews training materials reviewed the video and study guide and gave them a three-star rating. Click here to visit that site and read their review www.eperc.mcw.edu/
Realizing the Promise of the Whole-School Approach to Children’s Mental Health: A Practical Guide for Schools
This is a new Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) guide to implementing mental health promotion and prevention programs in elementary and middle schools. This guide enables school and community practitioners to join together for children’s mental health in schools; provides a practical, hands-on approach with examples from SS/HS sites; describes the phases and steps for effective implementation; offers strategies for addressing predictable barriers; and provides tools and links to existing tools.
Recent Initiatives to Improve Alignment and Instructional Quality in Science Education in the States
This paper examines states that are addressing the issues of coherence, instructional quality, and student support for improving science education. To provide an up-to-date review of initiatives in progress, we conducted interviews with education department personnel in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. The briefing paper describes numerous policy directions that have been planned and/or implemented, with implications for actions for consideration as Massachusetts seeks to improve alignment and instruction in science education.
Recreational Use of Ritalin on College Campuses
The increase in Ritalin abuse challenges colleges and universities to include the drug specifically as they develop and implement prevention and enforcement efforts for alcohol and other drugs. This four-page Infofacts/Resources discusses prevalence and possible adverse effects of misuse of Ritalin among college students and offers four environmental strategies for reducing its abuse at institutions of higher education.
Reducing Achievement & Opportunity Gaps: A Collaborative Framework
This report is designed to further ongoing school-wide and community-wide dialogues about achievement and opportunity gaps among the Rochester (Minnesota) Public Schools district’s students, as well as to help inform related professional, leadership, and program development efforts that are underway.
Reflections on a Drug-Related Murder at Purdue University (a Prevention Pipeline reprint)
Looks at the issue of whether college and university officials should continue to handle illicit drug cases "in house" or should instead rely on local law enforcement authorities.
Reproductive Health Programs for Young Adults: School-Based Programs
This paper is one in a series of four "key elements" papers. These papers have been commissioned by the Focus on Young Adults Program in an effort to: 1) document the current state of knowledge as to what works in reproductive health programs aimed at young adults; and 2) identify key issues requiring further research. This document includes sections on lessons learned for HIV/AIDS education and introduces a planning process and components of school-based reproductive health programs.
Researching the Sustainability of Reform: Site Reports and Articles
The completed Researching the Sustainability of Reform (RSR) project focused on the question of how to maintain the gains of an initial educational change process and support continuing reform over time. Within the broader study of sustainability, the research paid particular attention to systemwide approaches to science education reform as well as to the role that external funds can play in initiating reforms that are sustained. This bundled product includes individual research site reports and a cross-site report.
Resources for Teacher Leadership
This product provides a compilation of resources for secondary school teachers who plan to assume leadership roles in math and science reform. The resources are intended to support teachers in the following leadership activities: making presentations, writing for publication, reaching out to the community, mentoring and coaching, providing professional development, and supporting pre-service education.
Responding Globally to HIV/AIDS and STDs Over Two Decades: From Prevention to Voluntary Testing, Treatment, and Care
This document presents the range of work HHD has undertaken in responding to HIV/ AIDS globally. This brochure provides general overview of HHD as well as the work being done in Schools, Workplaces, Clinics, and within Communities.
Responding to Hate Crime: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum
This curriculum is an updated and condensed version of the National Bias Crimes Training Manual. Multidisciplinary in nature, it provides instructors with all the materials needed to teach a course on responding to hate crime, including suggested activities, recommended videos, reproducible handouts and transparencies, and detailed background notes for trainers. It is designed to enhance the services that police and victim-assistance professionals provide to victims of hate crimes by providing information on the nature of hate crimes, hate crime indicators, appropriate actions to investigate and respond to such crimes, and effective ways of assisting victims.
Responding to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southeast Asia: Annual Report for the Deutsche Bank Project
This publication highlights the first year of accomplishments of the Deutsche Bank sponsered HIV/AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children project. The project delivers HIV prevention education and vocational training to youth in hill tribe villages in Thailand, works with HIV/AIDS affected street children in Cambodia, and provides care and support to HIV/AIDS infected and affected children in Vietnam.
Responsible Hospitality
Responsible Hospitality (RH) programs have three goals: (1) to prevent illegal alcohol service to minors, (2) to reduce the likelihood of drinkers becoming intoxicated, and (3) to prevent those who are impaired from harming themselves or others. This four-page publication looks at key elements of successful RH, offers recommendations and resources for what campuses can do, and includes links to the RH programs at 11 campuses.
Reviled, Rejected, but Resilient: Homeless People in Recovery and Life Skills Education
This article presents three cases of homeless women who have overcome difficult circumstances, including incest, rape, physical abuse, alcoholism and drug addiction, and repeated incarceration in prisons and mental hospitals and become successful, employed members of society. This article is also about the Moving Ahead Program at Saint Francis House in Boston, which was instrumental in helping these women make the difficult transition from homelessness to mainstream society and from addiction to recovery.
Rigor, Collaboration, and Care: Two Decades of HIV/AIDS Prevention Research
This monograph describes EDC’s two decades of concentrated work on STD/HIV prevention research by EDC's Health and Human Development Programs, its collegial partnership with CDC, the relationships between HHD researchers and STD clinic and community agency staff, and the many lessons learned that can inform future HIV prevention efforts in the U.S. and around the globe.
Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide
This document contains a list of risk and protective factors along with a reference list. This document is from the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action (2001).
Risk and Reality: Implications of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Other Drugs (A research review)
The use of illicit drugs and abuse of alcohol exact a steep price from our society. The complicity of substance abuse in serious social ills such as crime, domestic violence, and traffic injuries is well established. Recently, however, another threat has come to the attention of the public. This is the threat to children born to women who abuse alcohol and other drugs during their pregnancy. Experts now estimate that one-half to three-quarters of a million infants are born each year who have been exposed to one or more illicit drugs in utero. When the legal drugs—alcohol and tobacco—are added, the figure rises to considerably more than one million substance exposed infants.
Safe and Effective Messaging For Suicide Prevention
A two-page document that offers evidence-based recommendations for creating safe and effective messages to raise public awareness that suicide is a serious and preventable public health problem is now available. Contains Do’s and Don’ts for creating public messages for suicide prevention.
Safe Havens: School, Community, and the Education of Youth and Children Experiencing Homelessness
This guide takes promising practices for educating children and youth experiencing homelessness, as reported by sites in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York, and organizes them in an easy to use format. Using data gathered from the 2003–2004 school year, the guide offers readers practical and creative strategies for ensuring equal access to quality education for students experiencing homelessness.
Safe Lanes on Campus: A Guide for Preventing Impaired Driving and Underage Drinking
The Higher Education Center prepared Safe Lanes on Campus: A Guide for Preventing Impaired Driving and Underage Drinking on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, and the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Safe Lanes helps senior administrators, faculty, staff, students, community leaders, enforcement agencies, and campus and community coalitions in choosing prevention strategies appropriate to their campus and their community to address driving under the influence of alcohol by students of all ages and alcohol use by students under the legal drinking age. Safe Lanes includes a review of the scope of the problem of DUI and underage drinking; an approach to campus and community interventions-five areas of strategic intervention related to environmental management: (1) alcohol-free options, (2) normative environment, (3) alcohol availability, (4) alcohol promotion, and (5) policy/law enforcement; a summary of policy and program recommendations in NIAAA's A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges; descriptions of policies and programs currently being used throughout the United States, with contact information for 22 programs; an overview of campus and community coalitions; an outline of the basic elements of strategic planning and evaluation that campus and community coalitions should follow; and a list of resource publications and organizations.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students Evaluation Monograph
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Evaluation Monograph features outcomes and lessons learned from the local evaluations of 25 selected 1999, 2000 and 2001 SS/HS grantees. The monograph highlights accomplishments achieved in the areas of safer communities, accessible mental health services, and improved academic performance.
Safe–T Pocket Card
This resource guides clinicians through five steps which address the patient’s level of suicide risk and suggest appropriate interventions. The card lists key risk and protective factors that should be considered in the course of completing the five-steps. Although the specific factors on the card apply primarily to adults, the five-step approach is equally appropriate for use with clients of all ages. When caring for youths, some of the salient risk and protective factors are different.
Safeguarding Your Students Against Suicide: Expanding the Safety Net
The information in this publication reflects the conclusions and recommendations of the national experts who attended the roundtable cosponsored by the National Mental Health Association (NMHA) and the Jed Foundation. The focus of the discussion centered on the 18- to 24-year-old student living on or near campus. The publication provides staggering facts and figures, looks at who is at risk, describes essential services for addressing suicidal behaviors on campus, and provides a checklist to use to assess institutions’ services. (Reprinted with permission. © 2002. All rights reserved.)
School Fee Policies and Practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Situational Analysis and Perspectives for the Future
This report is a situational analysis of school fees policy and practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It provides stakeholders and partners, both inside and outside the Congolese education system, with an understanding of the realities surrounding the question of school fees. It will serve as a tool for the design, implementation, and success of processes that could reduce or abolish these fees.
School Reform Behind the Scenes
This is the story of how four of the largest and most successful reform organizations in the United States--Education Development Center (EDC), School Development Program (SDP), Harvard Project Zero (PZ), and Coalition of Essential Schools (CES)--came together to form a unique partnership know as ATLAS (Authentic Teaching, Learning and Assessment). This volume provides a detailed glimpse of the individual workings of these influential organizations and, more importantly, how they combined efforts to uncover the craft of school reform--what teachers, administrators, and staff developers actually do to stimulate and support change. Through personal interviews with Janet Whitla, James Comer, Howard Gardner, Theodore Sizer, and others, you will hear the voices of renowned reformers telling another side of the school reform story to complement the policy side.
Science and Literacy—A Natural Fit: A Guide for Professional Development Leaders
This guide helps professional development leaders understand and use the many connections between balanced literacy and inquiry science. Organized around eight complete modules, the guide shows how to make talk and writing essential tools in science inquiry. Includes classroom video on DVD, as well as student notebook samples, participant readings, bibliography and take-home packets.
Science Clubs for Girls: A Guide to Starting Your Own
Science Clubs for Girls: A Guide to Starting Your Own describes how to build, maintain, and finance an after-school science club. The report targets girls because multiple studies have shown disparities and inequities between men and women in science and math performance, career options, and career choices.
Science for All: Including Each Student (Appendix E from NSTA Pathways to the Science Standards)
An appendix to the NSTA Pathways to the Science Standards for Middle School Teachers
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Program Implementation in Massachusetts
This paper is an initial effort to map the organizations involved in STEM education in Massachusetts, to describe what program leaders say are the major challenges involved in implementation, and to list some of their suggestions to bring a strategic focus to STEM implementation. In the process, the paper describes an enhanced role for the involvement of the major research and development organizations that have not played a major role in STEM program implementation in Massachusetts, despite their experience in policy development at the national level.
Science-Based Prevention: An Annotated Bibliography
A bibliography of selected science-based prevention documents that practitioners can use to access current information related to effective programs, strategies and principles.
Seated for Safety
Seated for Safety is a CD-ROM containing the final report from a study of the accuracy and appropriateness of child passenger safety educational materials, also containing downloadable educational materials.
SeaTrek Distance Learning Project Formative Evaluation Final Report
This report shares findings and recommendations from the evaluation of a marine–research–centered distance education program designed to spark student interest in science and real–world research.
Secondary Effects of Heavy Drinking on Campus
Not only do heavy drinkers negatively affect their own health and academic potential but also the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of their peers who abstain or drink moderately. This Infofacts/Resources offers an overview of the secondary effects that result from heavy drinking on campus, including sexual assault and interpersonal violence, consequences for communities around campuses, and how campuses might use information on secondary effects for alcohol prevention. It also lists multiple tactics for effective prevention approaches that many campuses are currently following to address alcohol problems.
Secondary Lenses on Learning Facilitator's Guide
The Secondary Lenses on Learning professional development program helps leaders from a range of administrative and instructional roles provide strategic and coherent leadership for mathematics programs. The authors provide a comprehensive package that contains everything needed to offer this seminar. Over the course of six nationally field-tested learning sessions, school and district leaders will:
- Explore concepts in middle and high school algebra as a window into content, instruction, and assessment
- Assess the strengths and needs of their mathematics programs, set goals, and generate plans for ongoing improvement
- Engage in extended explorations and conversations through readings, problem-based activities, cases, and videos
Participants in this innovative, new program will deepen their understanding of research-based practices associated with improved student learning and achievement in secondary mathematics and position their leadership teams to address necessary changes at the classroom level and in schoolwide systems.
Secondary Lenses on Learning Participant Book
Secondary Lenses on Learning is a professional development program for site-based mathematics leadership teams of administrators and teacher leaders from middle and high schools. Anchored in early algebra, it provides these leaders an extended learning experience so that they can develop a more closely shared understanding of current practices and a common vision for where to lead the mathematics program in their secondary schools. It also provides teams with time and a structure to begin developing short-term and long-term plans for addressing needs at their site.
The participant book contains:
- Three observation and reflection tools
- Introductory essays and Big Ideas corresponding to each of the six sessions of the seminar
- Relevant, accessible, and thought-provoking readings that bring current research and knowledge into the seminar
Security-Based Approach to Development
This book offers a new vision of development that addressess security and development issues simultaneously. It merges the global security issues with the "rights based" and "needs based" approaches.
Selecting Educational Software for Teenagers in After-School Settings: A Toolkit from the America Connects Consortium
This toolkit is designed to help locate and evaluate software that is both appropriate for high school students and suited to community technology centers settings. It provides a process for assessing both the needs of learners and instructors and the educational value of different software programs. The toolkit also features a review of the most common types of educational software available today. Finally, it includes a list of resources for locating and evaluating additional education materials.
Selecting the Program that’s Right for You: A Feasibility Assessment Tool
This tool is designed to help state- and local-level substance abuse practitioners assess the degree of fit between the specific implementation requirements of an effective, evidence-based program on the one hand, and the needs of their target population, organizational capacity, and current community conditions, on the other.
Selecting the Right Tool: A Compendium of Alcohol and Other Drug Assessment and Evaluation Instruments for Use in Higher Education
Assessing alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and measuring the effects of prevention efforts can be a daunting task. Although it may be unrealistic to expect every campus to conduct a rigorous, experimental evaluation of its programming a policies, all schools need to use key indictors to monitor progress and suggest needed policy or program modifications. This compendium covers the important issues to consider when selecting data collection instruments.
Services and Catalog
Describes the approach, services, and publications of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention and includes ordering information.
Setting and Improving Policies for Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems on Campus: A Guide for School Administrators
Written for administrators at both two-year and four-year institutions of higher education, this publication is especially valuable to the committee assigned to develop and revise alcohol and other drug prevention policies. Other members of the college community with a special interest in substance use prevention-faculty, students, program directors, campus security, and other staff-will also find this publication a useful introduction to campus policy setting. The guide presents a step-by-step process for establishing or revising policies. Among the issues examined are the need for revised and expanded policies; the scope of the problem and sources of ambivalence about alcohol and other drug (AOD) policies; the Drug-Free Schools and Campuses Act; the doctrine of environmental management; policy options for AOD prevention, including jurisdiction, enforcement of policies, regulating conditions of alcohol use and sales, and alcohol advertising and promotion on campus; and creating an effective process for policy setting.
Setting the Stage: Including Children with Disabilities in Head Start
This guide helps orient staff to the concept of inclusion and its implications for providing Head Start services to children with disabilities and their families; reinforces that program-wide efort is necessary; and strengthens staff skills in forstering and sustaining meaningful inclusion.
Sexual Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug Use on Campus
This Infofacts/Resources describes the scope of the problem of sexual assault on campus, perpetrator characteristics and situational circumstances that may make assaults more likely to happen, and the role alcohol and other drugs, including rape-facilitating drugs, play in sexual assault. This publication also provides an overview of sexual harassment and a sidebar on stalking on campus. While these are complex problems, campuses can take positive steps to address them; the publication outlines a set of principles and processes that IHEs can implement to prevent and mitigate sexual violence on campus.
Shedding Light on and with Example Spaces (an article from "Educational Studies in Mathematics")
Building on the papers in this special issue as well as on their own experience and research, the authors try to shed light on the construct of example spaces and on how it can inform research and practice in the teaching and learning of mathematical concepts.
This article appears in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Volume 69, Number 2).
Shifting Approaches to Supervision: The Case of Mathematics Supervision
This article addresses how administrators can better support standards-based instruction by shifting their approaches to supervision to attend to the intersection of process and content. The article reports on a study that looked at what administrators thought significant when viewing the same videotape of a fifth grade mathematics lesson at the beginning and end of a professional development seminar on supervision.
Skills for Health: Skills-Based Health Education to Teach Life Skills
A chapter from The Health Promoting School: International Advances in Theory, Evaluation and Practice, edited by Stephen Clift and Bjarne Bruun Jensen, and published by Danish University of Education Press.
Schools have an important role to play in equipping children with the knowledge, attitudes and skills they need to protect their health. This chapter demonstrates how skills-based health education, when planned and implemented based on research-based strategies, can make a significant contribution to the health and learning potential of young people.
Social Marketing for Prevention
This Prevention Update discusses the theory of social norms marketing, examples of effective implementation, and strategies for initiating informational campaigns on campus.
For more information on social norms and social marketing, visit the Higher Education Center's Frequently Asked Questions at http://www.higheredcenter.org/faq/144
Social Marketing Strategies for Campus Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
This guide explores how social marketing can be employed to bring about changes in the perceptions and patterns of student alcohol and other drug use. It examines how social marketing draws on the lessons learned from commercial marketing and explains how the two differ. Through relating the experiences of 10 colleges and universities, it illustrates the benefits of a social marketing campaign.
SOS: Step with Our Suggestions on Recovery from Addiction and Alcoholism
SOS turns quotes from Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings into a tool to help recovering people, co-dependents, and treatment professionals. From suicidal thoughts to elations of family reunions; from humorous recounting of regrettable acts while intoxicated to somber accountings of personal losses, these quotes depict the heroic struggles of recovering people.
SS/HS Evaluation Toolkit
The SS/HS Evaluation Toolkit is designed to provide you with tools, information, and resources to help you design and implement your evaluation, fulfill your obligations to the cross-site National Evaluation, and meet other Federal reporting requirements (especially those of the Government Performance Results Act – commonly called GPRA). The contents of the toolkit are presented in approximately the same sequence as the information in the Evaluation section of the SS/HS Project Resource Guide (discussed below). However, the “heart” of the Toolkit are those tools which, together, will help a project design and/or refine its Logic Model and develop an Evaluation Plan consistent with that Logic Model.
Stadium Alcohol Management
College and university sporting events constitute a large part of the "culture of drinking" found at many campuses, with frequent tailgating parties, spectator drinking, and high levels of alcohol-related traffic crashes associated with sporting events. This Prevention Update outlines ways to manage a stadium effectively to reduce high-risk drinking and related consequences.
State Strategies to Support Early Care and Education Partnerships (Vol. 1, No. 3)
Highlights actions states take to support the creation and continuation of partnerships. Includes a detailed bibliography and a list of organizations that provide state early care and education data.
State Suicide Prevention Web Pages
These Web pages have been created to support state efforts and to foster collaboration by serving as a central collection of information about suicide prevention efforts in each state. Examples of items included are state data, contact information, state plans, and a brief history of suicide prevention in the state.
Step by Step: A Guide to HIV and AIDS Policy Development for the Education Sector
This publication provides concrete guidance for developing a comprehensive response to the HIV epidemic within the education sector. Experience has shown that having an HIV and AIDS policy in place is one of the most effective strategies for minimizing the impact of the epidemic. When there is clear policy, systems and laws can be created that reflect a common understanding across the sector. While this guide is geared towards the Caribbean—which has the second highest prevalence of HIV in the world—its strategies can be modified and applied in other places.
Stepping into the Future: An Impact Evaluation for the Deutsche Bank Project
This impact evaluation assesses the development effectiveness and potential for long-term impact of Deutsche Bank’s ongoing regional HIV/AIDS program in Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam. The report identifies lessons learned, best practices, and innovative activities; and makes recommendations to further improve the relevance, efficiency, and efficacy of ongoing and future activities. As some of the country-based efforts have only been in implementation for one year, ongoing evaluation will be needed to establish medium to long-term impacts.
Strategies for Engaging Immigrant and Refugee Families
American classrooms have become increasingly diverse. Immigrants and refugees now comprise over 20 percent of the students in U.S. public schools, and this percentage is expected to grow to 30 percent by 2015. The number of English language learners has also increased, doubling in size from 1995 to 2005. These diverse students hail from every corner of the world, with 39 percent of immigrants coming from Mexico, 23 percent from Asia and the Pacific Islands, 11 percent from Europe, 6 percent from Central America and the Caribbean, 5 percent from South America, and 3 percent from Africa. Immigrants no longer reside mainly in urban areas but have dispersed to rural communities, where historically, there has been little diversity and certainly far less experience working with immigrant and refugee populations. Many Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) sites across the United States have substantial immigrant populations and are interested in better understanding their diverse communities so that they may do more effective outreach to engage families in SS/HS programs.
Strategies to Support the Emotional Wellness of Children, Families, and Staff: Findings from a Head Start Mental Health Task Force
The New England RAP for Disabilities (RAP), the New England Head Start Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Center, is pleased to present Strategies to Support the Emotional Wellness of Children, Families, and Staff: Findings from a Head Start Mental Health Task Force. In this document, you will discover answers for many of the questions you have regarding how New England Head Start programs are creatively implementing strategies to support the emotional wellness of everyone involved in the program.
Strategizer #34: Working in Partnership with Local Colleges and Universities
Many colleges and universities have taken a more comprehensive approach to reducing student alcohol and other drug problems by entering into partnerships with community-based groups to work together on developing solutions. Now communities have a new resource to help them take the initiative when it comes to working with campuses on shared problems related to student alcohol and other drug use.
The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) added Working in Partnership with Local Colleges and Universities to its series of Strategizer Technical Assistance Manuals to provide community-based coalitions with step-by-step guidance on working with colleges and universities.
Strategizer 34 describes various policy options and activities that town/gown coalitions can work on jointly to reduce problems. It also provides community coalitions with insight on how colleges and universities function so that they can reach out effectively to enlist their support. For example, one way to get campus involvement is to seek out the institution's president and encourage him or her to take a leadership role in the community in addressing these problems.
Strategizer 37: Increasing Alcohol Taxes to Fund Programs to Prevent and Treat Youth-Related Alcohol Problems
Studies have shown that when the price of alcohol increases, many alcohol-related problems go down. Young people are especially affected by variations in price. Raising alcohol excise taxes, therefore, can be an effective tactic to consider as part of a comprehensive approach to reducing alcohol-related problems on campus and in the surrounding community. This Strategizer provides answers to such questions as why increase excise taxes, what effects to expect from a tax increase, how an increase affects the price of alcohol, how higher alcoholic beverage taxes affect sales, how reduced sales affect alcohol problems, and how alcohol tax revenues can be used. The publication also suggests what coalitions can do to increase alcohol excise tax rates, including identifying and quantifying some of the major economic and social costs of alcohol use.
Strengthening Communities: A Review of the Youth Violence Grant Program
The Youth Violence Prevention (YVP) program was created in 1999 to support community-based organizations as they analyzed risk and protective factors of youth violence so that they could address the issue at early stages by choosing appropriate interventions. This monograph provides a description of the initiative along with its key elements and also highlights the experiences of various YVP communities.
Structured Exploration: New Perspectives on Mathematics Professional Development
This booklet presents a professional development process for teachers to do mathematics investigation together and analyze student work from the same investigations. The goal is to deepen teachers' understanding of mathematics concepts and increase their capacity to focus on student thinking. The text outlines steps in the process, focusing on three elements: use of inquiry, cross-grade groups, and open-ended investigations.
Student Leadership in AOD Prevention
This Prevention Update discusses the value of engaging students in campus AOD prevention programming, offers examples of student contributions, and gives resources to help increase student involvement.
Subject-area Teacher Networks, Teacher Professionalism, and Staff Development
This paper describes three subject-area teacher networks and the distinctive view of teacher professionalism implicit in their programs. These networks—CHART, UMC, and the Carnegie Science Partnerships—provide a range of activities in support of teachers' commitment to new knowledge in their subject areas, increase teachers' access to a broader network of professional relationships and enhance teachers' involvement in education reform and renewal. Together, these three components emerge as a foundation for a new paradigm of staff development.
Suicide Awareness Event Resource Kit
This resource kit provides a logistics planning guide and general and state specific materials to help you organize, plan and conduct a successful event to raise awareness about suicide and suicide prevention. The kit contains sample publicity materials, state and national data sheets, and legislative information.
Suicide Prevention: The Public Health Approach to Suicide Prevention
This chart and corresponding text define the public health approach as it applies to suicide prevention.
Suicide Risk and Prevention for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth
This publication addresses the special concerns related to suicide prevention among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. It summarizes the current state of knowledge about suicidality in this population, and outlines twenty-one recommendations for helping to reduce suicidal behavior among LGBT youth. Includes a resource appendix and an extensive bibliography.
Summary Document of UNICEF's Participation at the 14th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm
This report contains information on the country consultations, summaries of each of the two young people's track sessions that were held at the conference, a summary document of the country consultations that was distributed at the conference, and information on effective approaches for program development ranging from effective prevention to treatment and aftercare.
Supported Literacy for Adolescents : Transforming Teaching and Content Learning for the 21st Century
This book, written by nationally recognized experts from EDC, offers a proven method for developing high-level literacy skills in under-performing secondary students. Introducing the ‘Supported Literacy’ framework, a model extensively pilot tested in both urban and rural schools, the book provides detailed guidance in planning and conducting standards-based lessons and includes extensive case examples from science, social studies, language arts, and special education classrooms. The approach emphasizes competency-building for enabling students to understand complex and challenging academic content and focuses on multiple aspects of literacy--reading, writing, discussion, and digital/media fluency. The framework is especially useful for helping students to comprehend difficult academic texts and communicate their interpretations both orally and in writing. Teachers learn how to structure lessons as ‘meaning-making’ cycles in which students 1) engage in content-related questions, 2) respond individually by consulting relevant texts, 3) elaborate their understandings through peer discussions, 4) revisit their findings through critical reflection, and 5) represent their understandings in writing. Tips on modeling and assessment practices as well as practical tools and templates are provided. The book offers extensive guidance on working with special needs and low performing students, featuring a model tutorial intervention program. The work concludes with suggested professional development and leadership strategies for engaging the whole school in literacy-building efforts.
Supporting Children with Challenging Behaviors: Relationships Are the Key
This guide provides early childhood teaching teams with a process for reflecting on their own practice, assessing difficult situations, and designing interventions through joint problem solving. The focus of the guide is on helping adults understand their own behavior, their assumptions, and their relationships with children with challenging behaviors.
Supporting Early Childhood Professionals Through Content-Focused Mentoring
Drawing upon the vast experience of its authors, this guide describes the five essential aspects of content-focused mentoring. Within its pages, how to advice is offered on such issues as: designing effective mentoring systems, understanding and addressing resistance to change, strengthening mentors' skills and knowledge, building protégés' capacity, and assessing and refining systems.
Supportive School Discipline: A Snapshot from Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiatives
Supportive school discipline is a systemic constellation of programs and practices that promote positive behaviors while preventing negative or risky behaviors. It is positive rather than punitive, and aims to create a safe learning environment that enhances all students’ outcomes. A number of approaches to supportive school discipline have been shown to increase school safety without increasing suspensions and expulsions. One such initiative is Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS), a cross-agency collaboration among the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Survivor Resources
This document lists suicide survivor and grief support groups with links to organization Web sites and aims to: a) help individuals identify a support group that meets their needs; b) provide information on starting a group; and c) assist someone who is coping with grief.
Talking About Health Is Academic
Talking About Health Is Academic consists of six workshop modules containing narrative script, overheads, and handouts for presentations to those who can influence or participate in the implementation of coordinated school health programs at national, state, or local levels. (Based on Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs published by Teachers College Press)
Teacher Inquiry
The progressive agenda of science education reform, particularly the goal of promoting student inquiry, places substantial intellectual demands on teachers. If this reform is to succeed, the education community must do more to appreciate and address its demands. This paper presents three examples of high school physics teachers' conversations about "snippets" of each others' work with students. The purposes are (1) to highlight the central role and intellectual demands of teacher inquiry, in particular teachers' diagnoses of students' strengths and needs; (2) to suggest that teachers often experience and express their diagnoses in terms of instructional strategies; and (3) to suggest that the value of education research for instruction should be understood primarily with respect to what it may contribute to teacher inquiry.
Teacher Leader Stories: The Power of Case Methods
This practical guide will help teachers strengthen their leadership skills, optimize student learning, and enhance the profession. Research confirms that the best way to become an effective teacher leader is through case study, and this book provides:
- 16 compelling case studies that cover a broad range of leadership experiences
- Explicit guidance on using case writing and case analysis to enrich teachers’ professional learning
- A facilitator’s guide with discussion questions for each case study
Teacher Leadership in Mathematics and Science Casebook and Facilitator's Guide
Committed to improving instructional programs, more and more teachers are playing an active role in mathematics and science reform. Teacher Leadership in Mathematics and Science was written to assist these efforts. This unique book will both help current teacher leaders be more effective in this role and support the development of aspiring teacher leaders.
Teachers' Exercise Book for HIV Prevention (WHO Information Series on School Health)
Teachers' Exercise Book for HIV Prevention (WHO Information Series on School Health) uses active learning such as role-playing, brainstorming, and small-group discussions to improve teachers’ communication and advocacy skills, and build students' skills around HIV and AIDS prevention. The manuel was developed by Education International, World Health Organization, teachers, and EDC's Health and Human Development Programs.
Teachers' Professional Development and the Elementary Mathematics Classroom: Bringing Understandings to Light
This is a book about the journeys of elementary school teachers across one year's time, as they participated in a teacher development seminar focused on mathematics, and changed their beliefs, their knowledge, and their practices. The book grows from the project When the Learners' Thinking Takes Center Stage -- an investigation of teacher learning in the Developing Mathematical Ideas Seminar
Teaching Middle School Students to Be Active Researchers
This book is written for the hundreds of thousands of middle school teachers, administrators, specialists, and other staff throughout the country who want to know how to teach students how to conduct meaningful research.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
This report examines four approaches to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) employed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) between 2007 and 2012. Projects in South Africa, Indonesia, Georgia, and Morocco are used as case studies, and briefly analyzed according to nine practices deemed highly effective for workforce development as described by USAID.
Technology and Teaching Children to Read
This report is intended to provide background information that will help reading specialists, education technology specialists, classroom teachers, and special education teachers work together to understand, evaluate, and implement effective uses of technology within K-6 reading programs.
Technology as a Catalyst for School Communities: Beyond Boxes and Bandwidth
Technology as a Catalyst for School Communities: Beyond Boxes and Bandwidth tells the story of how three disparate schools handle the many challenges of integrating technology into their classrooms. Teachers and administrators alike will share familiar feelings as they watch the professional learning communities progress toward the change that makes an enormous difference in how they teach and learn from each other and their students. This book provides an attainable approach for educators to create their own communities of practice for the purposes of school improvement. The case studies illustrate how administrators and teachers work together to find solutions to the best ways to integrate technology in the classroom. In the process, through their collaborative work, they discover that they learned much more than the technical skills they first thought would be the focus of their common inquiry. In creating their communities of practice, the isolation of the classroom is removed, new ways of thinking and doing are embraced, and they learn how to learn again. As the teachers reach out to their peers and students, giving and receiving support in a cooperative learning endeavor, a new enthusiasm permeates their schools.
Technology Teaching and Learning: Research, Experience, & Global Lessons Learned
Globally, technology has been regarded as an instrument of, indeed a shortcut to, school reform. This monograph examines educational technology initiatives in Lebanon, Jordan, the United Kingdom, and the United States over the past decade and draws lessons that can help nations moving forward with their own national educational technology initiatives. It demonstrates that technology has not failed educational systems. Rather, these systems have made successful implementation of innovations like technology impossible by failing to develop the terrain, the conditions, the initiatives, the supports—the reforms—necessary to ensure that innovations take root and flourish.
Television Goes to School: The Impact of Video on Student Learning in Formal Education
This report focuses on key questions concerning the relationship of television to learning, and provides examples drawn from current television research to demonstrate television’s effect on student achievement. A set of practical recommendations are also provided so that broadcasters and educators can maximize the effectiveness of video in the classroom.
Telling It Like It Is: Using Social Norms Marketing Campaigns to Reduce Student Drinking
This article reprint discusses the history of social norms marketing campaigns and the early evidence of their effectiveness. It also examines the implication of such campaigns on college administrators and how use of the term "binge drinking" damages student drinking norms. Reprinted with permission from the December 1999 issue of AAHE Bulletin, pp. 11-13, 16, published by the American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Negotiating Palestinian Early Childhood Development in the Context of Globalization
Rachel Christina of EDC’s International Education Systems Division (IES) uses an ethnographic study of a leading Palestinian educational NGO to explore the dynamics of donor-state-NGO relationships in educational development. Her book, Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Negotiating Palestinian Early Childhood Development in the Context of Globalization, highlights needs for improvements in international educational assistance (particularly but not only to early childhood agencies) and support for indigenous decision-making in development initiatives.
The Afghanistan Literacy and Community Empowerment Program (LCEP): Final Report
The following document presents a summary of the USAID-funded Afghanistan Literacy and Community Empowerment Program (LCEP), implemented by EDC and UN Habitat between June 2004 and December 2006. It also presents LCEP’s salient achievements, challenges, and sustainability results, followed by a summary of LCEP reporting data. Each section offers a detailed discussion of key observations, followed by a summary of lessons learned and recommendations. This document is written for program planning, education and development professionals interested in participatory rural literacy and/or community development approaches in the Central Asia, Middle East, or North Africa regions.
The Afterschool Academies Guidebook for Action
Afterschool Academies are multi-day institutes for staff and leaders who are responsible for or instrumental in creating and leading afterschool programs, including directors, lead staff, network directors, and others. They focus on teaching and learning ‘afterschool style,’ the deliberate and thoughtful blend of content connected to success in school, with approaches and methods based in principles of child and youth development.
This guide is designed for leaders and organizations who want to build from the Academies model to create their own professional development for afterschool education and educators.
The guide was developed under a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The Biomanufacturing Skill Standards: Benchmarks for Manufacturing Occupations in the Biotechnology Industry
This product contains skill standards for 10 biotechnology manufacturing occupations, as well as information about the levels of technical skills and academic knowledge and the behavioral traits needed for these jobs. This information will help educators and trainers create programs, courses, and curricula to prepare people to work effectively in these occupations.
The Changing Mathematics Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography
This publication is an annotated bibliography of articles relevant to Standards-based mathematics curriculum reform. It is intended for educators and communities considering the selection or implementation of Standards-based mathematics instructional materials. It may also be helpful to individuals interested in learning more about the challenges of and effective practices for using Standards-based programs in mathematics.
The Community School Alliances Project: Advancing the State of the Art of Community Participation in Basic Education
The Community School Alliances (CSA) Project was a successful, innovative effort to strengthen the role that communities play in primary school education in Ghana. This short monograph is intended to give readers a flavor for what CSA accomplished, what the project was all about, and the contributions that CSA made to advancing the state of the art of basic education. It is divided into two sections: Part One – Technical Brief, provides readers with insights into CSA approaches, tools, and methods. Part Two - CSA, Staff and Participant Perspectives, gives readers a feel for what the project looked like on the ground.
The Confirmation of a Reluctant Constructivist (a chapter from "Educational Transformations: The Influences of Stephen I. Brown")
This paper illustrates the inevitability of students' constructing their own ideas with a poignant moment in a 2nd grade classroom, and suggests what remains for teachers to do in the face of the annoying truth that kids are in charge of their thinking.
The Definition of a Hero: NOVA Volunteers Respond to 9-11
This report, commissioned by the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA, documents and examines the volunteer response to the tragedies of September 11th. Integrating voices of survivors and victims with the hundreds of volunteer professionals who came to assist them, The Definition of a Hero: NOVA Volunteers Respond to 9-11 delivers analysis and recommendations for policymakers and emergency planners.
The Diagnostic Teacher: Constructing New Approaches to Professional Development
Through profiles of long-term professional development projects implemented by EDC, leading staff developers lay out a new approach to the professional development of teachers. The eight profiled projects, which span various subject areas, share a common vision of "diagnostic teaching."
The diagnostic teacher:
1) seeks to know students' current understandings and misconceptions,
2)deepens his or her own subject knowledge and makes judgments about which concepts are worth teaching, and
3) continuously assesses his or her own practices in light of students' understanding.The book offers a blueprint for restructuring the role of the staff developer and for cultivating professional learning communities within schools.
The Digital Classroom How Technology is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn
Digital technologies are reshaping the way education is practiced, raising many questions: How can we better prepare teachers for the challenges of high-tech classrooms? How can educators tap into the vast resources of the Internet to enhance curriculum? What can be done to close the "digital divide?"
This special report from the Harvard Education Letter features new articles and essays that address these questions and discuss the rewards and challenges of integrating technology into schools. Topics include professional development, equity issues, building a technology program, distance learning, girls and computers, special needs, using technology to teach science, math, reading, and writing, and much more. The Digital Classroom also includes short editorials by technology experts, educators, and cultural critics about the role and impact of technology in schools.
The Effective Principal: Instructional Leadership for High-Quality Learning
This volume examines how effective instructional leadership by principals and other school administrators is affected by their own knowledge and beliefs about learning, teaching, and subject matter. Using mathematics as a subject focus, the authors examine several specific aspects of instructional leadership, such as teacher supervision and classroom observation, curriculum selection, and student assessment. Nelson and Sassi provide detailed portraits of administrators at work, illuminating key decision-making situations and the actions they choose to take.
The Essentials of Science and Literacy: A Guide for Teachers
This highly readable and insightful book lays out the natural fit between inquiry science and balanced literacy instruction. It contains three straightforward sections:
- Essentials, from the nature of scientific inquiry to the importance of teacher questions;
- Talk, from creating a culture of talk to gathering ideas and making meaning;
- Writing, from the anatomy of a science notebook to their implementation and to writing beyond the notebook.
The Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) Curriculum
Ford PAS is an experience-based academic and personal development curriculum comprised of a sequence of five semester-long elective courses taught in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. Each course consists of three six-week modules. The program is an academically rigorous, standards-based interdisciplinary program that introduces students to the concepts necessary for future success. The Ford PAS program links classroom learning with the challenges students will face in post-secondary education and with the expectations of the workplace they will face as adults. These links are forged through community-wide, cooperative efforts innovative partnerships that join local high schools, colleges and universities, and businesses. Ford PAS is built around three core elements:
- Academic Knowledge: Delivering rigorous, standards-based content in math, science, social studies, and English language arts
- Interpersonal and Human Performance Skills: Teaching skills in critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, communication, personal management, and lifelong learning
- Business Concepts: Exploring content in finance, marketing, product quality, information systems, design and engineering, energy use, product development, workforce history, the environment, efficiency, planning, the global economy, international trade, and global citizenship.
The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit
The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit is a set of professional development materials whose goal is to help mathematics teachers in grades 6-10 learn to identify, describe, and foster algebraic thinking in their students. Underlying the Toolkit is a core belief that good mathematics teaching begins with understanding how mathematics is learned.
The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit: A Guide for Staff Development
Based on the popular Fostering Geometric Thinking, the Toolkit’s 20 two-hour sessions provide a year’s worth of math professional development for middle and secondary teachers. Its facilitator- and participant-friendly sessions cover the key topics of Fostering Geometric Thinking: geometric properties, transformations, and measurement.
With The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit, users will lead teachers through hands-on opportunities to:
- develop new understandings of middle and secondary students’ geometric thinking through a field-tested geometric habits-of-mind framework
- broaden and express their own geometric thinking by solving rich problems
- observe students’ thinking and problem solving through in-the-classroom footage
- practice analyzing student work
- apply all they’ve learned in the sessions to engage students’ thinking more effectively.
The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit fully supports users. Its facilitator materials provide clear instructions and include agendas, facilitator notes and tips, and other helpful resources. Its accompanying DVD goes above and beyond with an array of essential tools, including:
- numerous video clips for use in the sessions
- PowerPoint® slideshows that summarize existing research on students’ geometric thinking
- printer-ready participant handouts
- geometry applets for use by both participants and their students.
Use The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit and help program participants discover powerful ways to lead students to a new understanding of geometry.
Related publication: Fostering Geometric Thinking https://secure.edc.org/publications/prodview.asp?1831
The Higher Education Amendments
On October 7, 1998, President Clinton signed into law H.R. 6, the Higher Education Amendments. This large package of federal education legislation contains a number of provisions that may offer assistance to college and university student drinking and other drug use prevention efforts, as well as to campus violence and crime prevention. Examples of specific provisions related to prevention include The College Initiative to Reduce Binge Drinking and Illegal Alcohol Consumption (Section 119) and Grants to Combat Violent Crimes Against Women on Campuses (Section 826).
This two-page flyer contains a summary of the provisions specifically related to alcohol, other drugs, violence, and crime prevention. The full text of H.R. 6, as well as other supporting and analytic documents, is posted on the U.S. Department of Education's Web site: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/PPI/Reauthor/index.html
The Influence of Child Care Health Consultants in Promoting Children's Health and Well-Being
This publication presents findings from a synthesis of 79 published and unpublished resource documents—evaluations, presentations, monographs, etc.—related to health consultation to early care and education programs. The report seeks to map the landscape of child care health consultant (CCHC) services and to identify CCHCs’ impact on early care and education programs’ health and safety practices and child health outcomes.
The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care (IPPC): Curriculum
The IPPC curriculum is composed of six modules that are designed to facilitate individual clinician learning and strengthen an institution's programs and services. These goals are accomplished by focusing on knowledge, attitudes, skills, and institutional practice.
The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care (IPPC): Videos
The IPPC videotape series offers rich, evocative portrayals of children, families, and professional caregivers in a range of palliative care contexts, and is a central part of the IPPC curriculum. These award-winning videos were created for use in the structured learning activities described in the facilitator's guides, but also are being used independently by educators in a range of settings.
The Journal of Educational Technology & Society (July 2006)
Connected to the push for data-driven decision-making is an increased interest in data delivery systems or Management Information Systems (MIS) in education. But, before administrators rush to build data and information systems, we argue for a careful review of existing knowledge about information systems in the education sector in light of what business and organizational research already knows about information systems. We draw on the considerable body of business and organizational research on MIS and a recent educational case study in New York City to introduce a theoretical framework to describe the process from data to decision-making in schools.
The New Media Literacy Handbook--An Educator's Guide To Bringing New Media Into the Classroom
The New Media Literacy Handbook is an invaluable resource for educators seeking guidance in navigating through the vast new media landscape. This book has been designed to help teachers develop their own visual literacy skills, become more sophisticated users of media, and develop evaluation criteria for media products. In addition, the authors show how new media can be used in several academic disciplines - language arts, history, science, and art. With helpful exercises for teachers included in each chapter, The New Media Literacy Handbook is an essential tool for today's educators.
The Off-Campus Environment: Approaches for Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
This Prevention Update introduces a broad range of strategies for addressing alcohol- and other drug-related problems off campus, including lines of communication, student education, student-neighbor connections, community mediation programs, landlord programs, new laws and ordinances, campus jurisdiction over off-campus behavior, targeted enforcement strategies, and cooperating tavern programs.
The Role of State, Community, and Institutional Policy in the Prevention of College Alcohol Problems
Whether implemented at the institutional, community, state, or federal level, policy change is a particularly powerful environmental strategy, with the potential to reduce high-risk alcohol use and its consequences. This publication aims to encourage campus administrators in a state to work together to introduce policies that make the environment less supportive of high-risk alcohol use. Beginning with a general definition of policy, it goes on to review specific alcohol policy options cited in recent reviews of the scientific literature. It also suggests concrete actions that campus administrators can take to encourage key stakeholders, including policymakers, to review existing policy and serve as catalysts for change.
The Roles of Representation in School Mathematics 2001 Yearbook
The Roles of Representation in School Mathematics focuses on how students learn mathematics--in particular, how they learn to form abstractions and build mathematical representations of phenomena. It is an excellent resource for teachers who want to make smart decisions about content and pedagogy.
This book explains how students learn mathematics, how they come to develop mathematical habits of mind, and even how they develop misunderstandings about mathematics. It discusses the nature and roles of representation, the use of representation tools for gaining insights, various symbol systems used in mathematics, and the role of context in the interplay between modeling and representation. Hardback
The School Network Handbook
The School Network Handbook introduces school technology leaders to best practices in school computer network management, including technology planning, budgeting, and professional development. The book also explains the technical details behind wireless communications, virtual private networks, handheld devices, Internet filtering software, and many other computer technologies on which schools depend with increasing frequency.
The Teaching Firm: Where Productive Work and Learning Converge
Everyone knows that informal learning takes place, but few organizations know how to benefit from it. A teaching firm maximizes the quality and productivity of its workforce by leveraging informal learning opportunities. The Center for Workforce Development has released its landmark study on the dynamics of informal learning in high-performance organizations. The study is available as a full report and as an executive summary.
Please note this publication is only available as a PDF
The Voice of Children Toolkit: School Edition
The Voice of Children Toolkit is designed for any adult willing to involve young people ages 13–20 in a process of discovery. It includes methods and strategies to conduct a survey and focus groups that enable young people to express how different learning environments affect each and every aspect of their well-being. The manual and its tools guide users through a process that engages young people in answering the critical questions:
- How do features of your school as a learning environment affect your well-being?
- What changes will make this learning environment more conducive to fostering all aspects of well-being and effective learning?"
The Voice of Children: Student Well-Being and the School Environment, Middle East Pilot
The Voice of Children initiative uses survey and qualitative techniques that capture the voices and opinions of young people about their perceptions of their well-being and how various learning environments affect it. This report concentrates on preliminary findings from the pilot Voice of Children 1 quantitative survey administered in schools in 2006 in three countries: Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.
The Young Scientist Series: Building Structures with Young Children
The second installment in the Young Scientist Series, Building Structures with Young Children guides children's explorations to help deepen their understanding of the physical science present in building block structures, including concepts such as gravity, stability, and balance. This nationally field-tested curriculum supports children’s early development of important science inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing, and formulating ideas and theories through curriculum ranging from exploring and designing structures to building block creations.
The Young Scientist Series: Discovering Nature with Young Children
Field-tested across the country, this comprehensive curriculum expands and extends the role science has traditionally played in the early childhood classroom. The first unit in a new series from Redleaf Press, Discovering Nature with Young Children explores the wide-ranging elements that make up the natural world around us. Discovering Nature with Young Children, Trainer's Guide and Video, are also available through Redleaf Press. These indispensable tools for trainers and administrators introduce teaching staff to the complete Discovering Nature with Young Children curriculum.
The Young Scientist Series: Exploring Water with Young Children
Exploring Water with Young Children focuses children's explorations to help deepen their understanding of water and its properties-including concepts related to water's flow, appearance and effect on objects. The third unit in the Young Scientist Series, this field-tested curriculum supports the early development of important science inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing and formulating ideas and theories.
The YouthLearn Guide: A Creative Approach to Working With Youth and Technology
The YouthLearn Guide is designed to help after-school and in-school programs create and implement high-quality, technology-enriched learning activities. This easy-to-use manual contains more than 160-pages of hands-on lessons, worksheets, and sample activities that have proven effective at inspiring young people's curiosity and creativity.
There's Room in My Class: Preschool Children with Chronic and Terminal Conditions
This technical report provides helpful information about including preschool children with chronic or terminal conditions in regular education classrooms. The report offers insights into young children's understanding of illness and death, and provides strategies and resources that teachers and parents can use to answer children's questions.
Think Math!
Think Math! is the newest National Science Foundation funded K–5 mathematics program. This unique comprehensive curriculum—developed by EDC—combines the best of traditional, research-based and competitive international approaches. Think Math! connects problem solving, skill building, and conceptual development. Think Math! offers built-in professional development for teachers through highly accessible teaching materials. It also incorporates the power of puzzlement, curiosity, and surprise into everyday learning!
Thinking (and Talking) About Technology in Math Classrooms
One of two papers in the Issues in Mathematics Education series, this paper explores the impact of new technologies on the teaching and learning of mathematics. It advocates the use of good judgment in choosing educationally appropriate technology for the classroom--and in designing the use of that technology as a tool in the learning of mathematics.
Also check out Assessing Students' Mathematics Learning
Thinking About Drinking and Drugs When Considering College
This flyer for high school juniors and seniors and their parents and guidance counselors provides information on what colleges and the U.S. Department of Education are doing to help ensure that college will be an exciting and enriching experience for students. It gives a brief description of the 14 programs awarded funds in fiscal years 2004, 2005, and 2006 under the Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses Grant Competition.
Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty
This book provides a first-hand account of the lives and perspectives on childrearing of a group of mothers from diverse backgrounds, from their own upbringing to their developing views and experiences on childhood education in the U.S. The authors place these views within the context of family policy and early childhood programming and standards.
TIP: Teaching Immunization Practices: A Comprehensive Curriculum for Nurses
A collaborative effort of the American Nurses Association, the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, the Centers for Diseae Control, and Education Development Center, Teaching Immunization Practices (TIP) consists of three modules--Basic Principles of Immunization; Basic Principles of Vaccine Use; and Immunization Practice, Delivery, and Program Design--developed to help future and practicing nurses fulfill their roles as providers, educators, and advocates for proper immunization. These modules, which were field-tested with over 480 students in 11 nursing programs, can be used in their entirety as a comprehensive program. Alternatively, the modules, lessons, slides,case studies, and handouts can be used individually or combined to make a "custom fit" with existing related course materials.
Togetherness: How Governments, Corporations, and NGOs Partner to Support Sustainable Development in Latin America
This study, commissioned by the Inter-American Foundation, examines 12 intersectoral partnerships (ISPs) in Latin America, to uncover new insights related to three questions:
(1) what are the benefits and challenges that emerge when local governments, businesses and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) join forces to bring about sustainable improvements in the lives of the poor
(2) what can partners do to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of intersectoral partnering
(3) what is "best practice" for funding entities that wish to promote productive partnering.Toolkit for Assessing Fidelity and Adaptation
This toolkit contains a universal fidelity tool and suggested companion process for incorporating fidelity into all aspects of prevention program design, funding, implementation, and evaluation.
Tools for Latino Family Outreach: Supporting Student Success in the Middle Grades and Beyond
EDC’s PALMS project developed Tools for Latino Family Outreach: Supporting Student Success in the Middle Grades and Beyond to assist school leaders in building or strengthening outreach programs that targets Latino families. The toolkit incorporates the findings of a study PALMS conducted on the best practices for reaching out to Latino families and was field tested for usability in five middle-grades schools across the U.S. Even educators with well-established parent outreach programs gained new ideas and inspiration from using the tools.
Toward Effective Support for Language and Literacy Through Professional Development (chapter)
This chapter, in Critical Issues in Early Childhood Professional Development, edited by Martha Zaslow, Ph.D. and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck, Ph.D., describes the creation of professional development approaches designed to enhance the capacity of early childhood programs to support the language and literacy development of children from low-income backgrounds. The chapter concludes with a discussion of lessons learned.
Translating the IEP into Everyday Practice
This guide builds staff skills in individualizing for children with disabilities by demonstrating how to analyze and adapt routines, activities and rules, so that children with disabilities can fully participate in the classroom setting.
Tuned In to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of Interactive Radio Instruction for the Hardest to Reach
This study reviews student assessment data collected from 15 recent EDC projects to determine the impact of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) on student achievement in hard-to-reach areas. IRI is an instructional tool designed to deliver active learning by radio. The study is focused on the use of IRI to teach the poorest, least supported, and most remote learners to whom access to education has traditionally been denied; it also looks at IRI operating in systems of huge scale, such as the 20 million plus learners in India. The data indicates that exposure to IRI is associated with higher levels of student achievement, consistently producing learning gains among its participants of diverse ages and in diverse settings.
TV411®: A Television And Video Series
TV411® is an exciting new 30-part video series for adult learners that uses real-life topics to teach pre-GED level basic skills. TV411® builds reading skills, improves writing ability, and makes sense of math! Created with high production values, this indispensable teaching tool is packed with expert advice and proven tips to promote active learning. Content focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research how-to's, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test taking, and more. The series also includes a learner’s guide and teacher’s guide for the series as well as an accompanying 12-page student workbook for each video episode. Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA) also produces theme-based literacy kits. Each kit contains six or more units with accompanying video segments, teacher’s guide and learner activities. Current TV411 Literacy Kits include: "Family Learning Kit," a kit designed for both parents and young children to work together on literacy and numeracy activities; "Read All About Kit," a literacy kit for adults and young adults using newspapers; "Financial Literacy Kit," a kit with activities on such topics as budgeting and smart shopping; and "Health Wise Kit," a valuable literacy curriculum based on health care topics.
Ubiquitous Computing in Education: Invisible Technology, Visible Impact
Digital technology has radically altered the way in which we live and work, but has not had a substantial impact on education. Ubiquitous Computing in Education explores the educational potential of ubiquitous computing initiatives that make digital tools available to students and teachers. Features the chapter "Results in the palms of their hands: Using handheld computers for data-driven decision making in the classroom" by Naomi Hupert and Cricket Heinze of EDC's Center for Children and Technology.
Understanding Evaluation: The Way to Better Prevention Programs
This handbook describes the "how and why" of program evaluation and outlines the steps involved, working from the premise that many useful evaluations can be conducted by program staff who may not have formal training in evaluation. Although prepared for a general rather than a higher education audience, the information will be valuable to those who need to conduct evaluations required under the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA) and to those who simply want to find out whether their prevention efforts are yielding results.
University Drinking and Driving Prevention
This article reprint describes the College and University Drinking and Driving Prevention Awards Program, a collaborative effort between the Automobile Club of Southern California and the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. Reprinted from "Impaired Driving Update" with permission from Civic Research Institute, Inc.
Upping the Numbers: Using Research-Based Decision Making to Increase Diversity in the Quantitiative Disciplines
Upping the Numbers is one of the first studies to gather data on what really works to increase under-represented students' interest and success in these fields. According to the study, majority women and minority women and men are dramatically underrepresented in quantitative fields in the workforce. With percentages of these groups in the workforce growing, the report emphasizes that there is an urgent need to improve this shortfall in order to prevent severe labor shortages in vital areas of our economy.
Urban Perspectives Newsletter
Urban Perspectives is the newsletter of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, which provides a communication forum for urban school district administrators who manage programs for students with disabilities. The Collaborative is a comprised of over 80 special education leaders from the nation's urban school districts.
Urban Perspectives Newsletter, Spring, 1999
Urban Perspectives is the newsletter of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, which provides a communication forum for urban school district administrators who manage programs for students with disabilities. The Collaborative is a comprised of over 80 special education leaders from the nation's urban school districts.
Urban Perspectives Newsletter, Summer/Fall 2004
Urban Perspectives is the newsletter of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, which provides a communication forum for urban school district administrators who manage programs for students with disabilities. The Collaborative is a comprised of over 80 special education leaders from the nation's urban school districts. Contents of this issue include:
- Urban Special Education Funding and Class Action by Thomas Hehir
- Good High Schools: Describing and Validating Results for Students with Disabilities by Cynthia Mata Aguilar (of EDC's Center for Family, School, and Community), Susan Erber, and Alice Farling
- Partner Project Updates
Urban Perspectives Volume 6, No. 1
Urban Perspectives is the newsletter of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, which provides a communication forum for urban school district administrators who manage programs for students with disabilities. The Collaborative is a comprised of over 80 special education leaders from the nation's urban school districts.
Urban Perspectives Volume 6, Number 2
Urban Perspectives is the newsletter of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, which provides a communication forum for urban school district administrators who manage programs for students with disabilities. The Collaborative is a comprised of over 80 special education leaders from the nation's urban school districts.
Urban Perspectives, Newsletter, Winter 2000
Urban Perspectives is the newsletter of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, which provides a communication forum for urban school district administrators who manage programs for students with disabilities. The Collaborative is a comprised of over 80 special education leaders from the nation's urban school districts.
User's Guide to the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO) Toolkit
Introduction, instructions, technical appendix, and additional information on the Early Language Clasroom Observation (ELLCO) Toolkit.
Using Data to Improve Schools: Raise Student Achievement by Incorporating Data Analysis in School Planning
The "Toolkit" is intended for use by schools and district leaders and their staff interested in using data to improve their school programs to ensure that every student can reach high levels of achievement. A six-step process guides school improvement teams as they collect, understand, and use data for creating and revising school action plans designed to increase student achievement, particularly those students who have traditionally been underserved. Assistance can be provided by the New England Comprehensive Center at EDC, Inc. for interested users who meet these criterias: New England district and state department of education level individuals providing assistance to high poverty schools or schools with a high proportion of students served through the Improving America's Schools Act (ESEA). Assistance also provided to schools that meet fit the above description.
Using Technology to Train Teachers: Appropriate Uses of ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Developing Countries
This handbook is intended to help decision makers in developing-country governments and donor agencies in their efforts to utilize information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve and expand teacher professional development (TPD) activities. To the extent possible in a brief work, the handbook combines a global perspective—including information about best practices and successful projects from both developing and developed countries—with attention to the challenges faced by education policymakers, teachers, and students in Least Developed Countries and countries attempting to meet the goals of Education for All.
This handbook helps decision makers improve their abilities to:
- Understand the complex relationships between ICT use, professional learning, the change process, types of TPD and classroom implementation so as to aid the development of requests for proposals that address these issues
- Recognize best practices and essential supports in the use of ICTs for TPD in order to evaluate proposals of national, regional, and local scale
- Propose types of TPD and ICT implementations that can achieve specific objectives in relation to educational improvement Identify cost considerations, potential partnerships, evaluation requirements and other factors essential to the planning of effective ICT-enabled TPD
- Communicate effectively with researchers, representatives of NGOs, policymakers, donor-agency personnel, and others about the roles played by TPD and ICTs in educational reform
The handbook draws experiences and lessons learned from over 50 programs and initiatives in 25 developing countries, and includes two short cases studies on projects in Guinea and Namibia.
Using the History of Science in the Chemistry Classroom
This site contains specific resources and suggestions for how the history of science might be integrated into an introductory chemistry or physical science classroom. Features include annotated lists of links to web resources on the history of chemistry, using the history of science in teaching, and historical entries that have been created to align both to standards and students' sense of curiosity and interest.
Using the History of Science in the Physics Classroom
This site contains specific resources and suggestions for how the history of science might be integrated into an introductory physics classroom. Features include annotated lists of links to Web resources on the history of physics, using the history of science in teaching, and historical entries that have been created to align both to standards and students' sense of curiosity and interest.
Violence and Teen Pregnancy: A Resource Guide for MCH Practioners
This publication was developed to assist public health professionals who work with pregnant and parenting adolescents. It provides an in-depth look at the complex problem of violence against pregnant teens, synthesizes and discusses the available research and literature on the topic, and presents practical strategies that state and local public health professionals can take to intervene. It also describes a dozen programs in a variety of public health settings that are working to address the problem and includes annotated resource lists and references.
Visionary Middle Schools: Signature Practices and the Power of Local Invention
This book addresses head-on the critical national concern of educating an ever-more diverse student population. Visionary Middle Schools describes how three schools developed unique local solutions that were responsive to their particular students, to their cultures, and to their district and state mandates. Each school is organized around a different school-wide instructional practice—a “signature practice”—that reflects that school’s particular beliefs about learning. Despite obstacles such as poverty, low English-language proficiency, and new immigrant status, each of these schools is the strongest performing in their respective districts and presents approaches and lessons of relevance to urban schools across the country.
Voicing the New Pedagogy, Teachers Write About Learning and Teaching Mathematics
Detailed descriptions of classroom process are needed in order to ground discussion of the principles animating the mathematics education reform movement. In response to this need, teachers who were already engaged in transforming their mathematics instruction were invited to write reflective narratives about their evolving instructional practice. This paper describes the structure of that project and presents excerpts from some representative narratives. It also considers how writing these narratives contributed to the continuing development of their authors and discusses how reading them affected students in teacher education courses. Finally, it urges that such narratives be seen as a medium through which teachers can become centrally involved in the national conversation about mathematics education reform.
Ways to Think About Mathematics: Activities and Investigations for Grade 6-12 Teachers
Ways to Think About Mathematics uses immersion experiences in algebra, geometry, and statistics to help mathematics teachers improve their knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts. By experiencing open-ended problems, making and checking conjectures, and evaluating problem solving strategies, every math teacher can become better prepared to deal with day-to-day classroom decisions. Funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a wide variety of professional development and preservice settings, the materials in this book integrate mathematical thinking, effective teaching practices, and explicit connections to exemplary curricula. Because it is aligned with the principles and standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics but is not fixed to any single curriculum, the materials in this book can be aligned with any state or district standards.
Weaving a Safety Net: Integrating Injury and Violence Prevention into Maternal and Child Health Programs
This publication provides a rationale for MCH agencies to address injury and violence prevention (IVP) and offers guidance on integrating injury prevention into established programs such as WIC, Child Death Review, and teen parenting programs. The guide discusses opportunities for integration of IVP into infant and child health programs, adolescent health programs, programs for children with special healthcare needs, and women's health programs.
What an Innovative Curriculum for Teachers Reveals About Supporting Teachers' Professional Learning
Researchers agree that achieving the fundamental changes called for by current reforms in mathematics education requires new learning on the part of teachers. To meet this challenge, a tremendous variety of teacher-enhancement projects, representing a range of perspectives and approaches to supporting teachers? learning, currently exists across the country. This paper presents a comparative analysis of three teacher educators using a curriculum, Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI), designed to serve elementary teachers in an inquiry-group setting. The aim of the study was to examine the process and demands of supporting teachers? learning and their efforts to reform their practices. Analyses revealed that the central demand of supporting teachers? learning through inquiry involved navigating through what we have called openings in the curriculum. These openings took the form of unanticipated questions, challenges, observations, or actions by participating teachers and required facilitators to make on-the-spot judgments about how to guide the discourse. Examinations of the teacher educators? processes for navigating these openings revealed that they used a set of three activities in determining how to respond. Analysis of facilitators? activities further illuminates the work involved in supporting teachers? learning and offers implications for the type of support needed by teacher educators engaged in this work.
What Community Participation in Schooling Means
Community participation is a term frequently used and often cited in international educational development. This article, written by EDC's Jennifer Swift-Morgan, investigates the definition and impact of community participation in schooling in rural Ethiopia. This article appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Harvard Educational Review.
What Does It Take to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse?: MetroWest Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative Final Report
This report describes the highlights of EDC’s six-year effort with 11 Greater Boston communities to prevent teen alcohol and drug abuse. The strategies the communities used were guided by research and adapted to fit their needs. Results include measureable decreases in teen alcohol use, increased community awareness and motivation to find solutions, greater use of research-based school prevention curriculum and effective community coalitions for sustainability. Several communities also received major additional funding to build on their efforts. The lessons learned from this experience may be beneficial to other communities engaging in youth substance abuse prevention.
What Does the Research Say?: Volume 1 Does Technology Enhance Inquiry-Based Learning?
This research brief, the first in a planned series, focuses on research into the effectiveness of the Enhancing Missouri’s Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies (eMINTS) program. This brief summarizes the research results on four key questions: 1) Does the eMINTS program increase student learning? 2) Does the impact of the eMINTS program on student learning differ for different groups of students? 3) Are the increases in student learning in the eMINTS program tied to specific changes in classroom practices? 4) Does the approach of the school principal influence the impact of the eMINTS program? It also considers the debate about what research methods can provide valid data for drawing conclusions about these questions.
What Does the Research Say?
What Does the Research Say? is a quarterly, free, joint publication of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN). In each article, we will begin with a broad question about technology in education. We will then describe one or more research studies that address that question, looking at the technology and educational innovations studied and at the research methods employed. We will summarize what’s been learned from the research and, equally important, what has not yet been learned. These articles are intended to address the needs and interests of educational leaders and policymakers responsible for decisions about the educational uses of technology.
What Lies Behind Dynamic Interactive Geometry Software? (a chapter from "Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Vol. 2, Cases and Perspectives")
This paper looks at Cabri, Geometer's Sketchpad, and the Geometric Supposers and presents both the variation of ideas embodied in these interactive geometry tools, and some of the fascinating history of the development of the ideas and the software pieces that embody them.
What to Look for in Mathematics Classrooms (Principal Magazine November/December 2006)
To understand what is happening in today’s math class and make informed judgments about the adequacy of the instruction, principals need to listen to students’ mathematical thinking and assess the teacher’s capacity also to listen and to make instructional moves that help students’ mathematical thinking progress. The first step in learning to do this is for principals to take every opportunity they can to learn to listen to students’ mathematical thinking, themselves.
Which Alcohol Policies Work? Efforts to Curb Campus-Drinking Excesses Have Stagnated
Which Alcohol Policies Work? by the executive director of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, discusses implications of the April 2002 NIAAA report on college drinking. The article, which appeared in the July/August 2002 issue of Trusteeship, is reprinted with permission from the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities (© 2000 All rights reserved).
WHO Information Series on School Health: Family Life, Reproductive Health and Population Education–Key Components of a Health-Promoting School
This document focuses on a range of family life, reproductive health, and population issues, and how they can be integrated into the components of a Health-Promoting School to improve the overall health, education, and development of children, families, and community members.
WHO Information Series on School Health: Healthy Nutrition–An Essential Element of a Health-Promoting School
This document reveals how nutrition interventions in schools benefit the entire community, and how healthy eating contributes to decreasing the risks of today's leading health problems.
WHO Information Series on School Health: Local Action: Creating Health Promoting Schools
This document is a practical "how-to" guide for work at the local level to establish school health programs. It offers organizing ideas and activities to identify health issues in the school and community and take steps such as establishing a planning team, gathering information, and developing an action plan to improve health and learning. This document includes many case studies, tools, handouts and masters for transparencies.
WHO Information Series on School Health: Skills-Based Health Education and Life Skills
This document can be used to orient education and health workers to improve health among youth through skills-based health education, including life skills. The document is designed to define key concepts and explain how skills-based health education, including life skills, fits into the broader context of what schools can do to improve education and health, and how skills can be taught in a participatory manner.
WHO Information Series on School Health: Violence Prevention: An Important Element of a Health-Promoting School
This document introduces health promotion strategies through a Health-Promoting Schools and explains how efforts to promote health and prevent violence might be planned, implemented, and evaluated as part of the development of a Health-Promoting School.
Work and Life Literacy: A New Paradigm for Education in the 21st Century
Inequitable access to technology and the widening effect of globalization on the socioeconomic divide between the peoples of the world require a new vision for education in the 21st century—universal literacy in Work and Life (WL). The Work and Life Literacy model is a holistic approach that empowers individuals to establish a foundation for successful and productive work and life and pursue life-long learning.
Working Together for Safety: A State Team Approach to Preventing Occupational Injuries in Young People
This guide uses two case studies to demonstrate the value of the State team approach. The remainder of the document describes the experiences and activities of the State teams in the Northeast; the products developed by the teams for teens, parents, employers, school staff, health care providers, and others who can help protect young people from injury on the job; and key resources for other States interested in creating their own State teams.
Working Together for Youth
A twenty-minute videotape encouraging collaboration between law enforcement agencies and programs for runaway and homeless youth. It includes testimony from law enforcement officers, social service professionals, and juvenile court judges on the benefits of collaboration for agencies, staff, youth, and families.
Worldwide Experience in School Health
A tremendous body of research over the last two decades has illustrated the interdependence of health and education, and the impact of socioeconomic factors on health. EDC's Health and Human Development Programs (HHD) has played a major role in advocating for and establishing school health programs, and building collaborations between health, education, and other relevant sectors in the process. Worldwide Experience in School Health highlights HHD’s work in school health since 1977.
Worms, Shadows, and Whirlpools: Science in the Early Childhood Classroom
This book represents a new way to think about science education for young children. Based on the growing understanding that even the littlest learners are powerful thinkers and theory makers, it identifies important science inquiry skills and concepts appropriate for the very young.
YCoP Links: The Next Generation
In the nine years since its inception in 2003, Educational Quality Improvement Program 3: Learning and Earning for Out-of-school Youth (EQUIP3) has represented the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) single largest group of investments in global programming for youth. It has become a repository for good practices in the field of youth development — and there is considerable experience both within and outside of EQUIP3.
This publication and the bulletins it contains represent these good practices. Further, this second compendium (the first was published in 2009) illustrates the continued work of the Youth Community of Practice (YCoP), which has formed around EQUIP3 since 2003.
Young Adult Suicide & Student Status: Findings from a Pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System
This fact sheet created in partnership with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center contains analyzed data from NVISS, a precursor to the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System, that determines how many of the 18-24 year-old suicide decedents were and were not students at a college or other post secondary education program. The fact sheet also compares characteristics of non-student and student suicides to identify opportunities for prevention in both groups.
Youth Community of Practice (YCoP) Links: The First 50 Issues
The Youth Community of Practice (YCoP) provides a forum to gather and exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices, particularly related to the incorporation of youth into U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects. It is open to all who are interested and willing to contribute to the community's knowledge. YCoP Links is an e-bulletin highlighting promising events, projects, and studies on international youth development. The YCoP Links compendium serves as reference guide that collects for the first time in a single volume the listings from the first 50 issues. It is meant to be a practical tool for youth development policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and other professionals.
Youth Councils: An Effective Way to Promote Youth Participation
Despite their varying contexts, youth councils are increasing young people’s voices, developing their critical social and interpersonal skills, enhancing their self-esteem, and connecting them to their communities and the global arena. To cultivate the growth of effective youth councils and ignite a new wave of similar youth entities across the globe, it is critical to learn from existing models, understand the essential elements for success, and extrapolate key lessons learned from the challenges youth councils often encounter. The various case studies presented in this paper have provided some key elements of effective youth councils, in addition to some challenges councils face.
Youth Livelihoods Development Program Guide
This Guide responds to the interest on the part of USAID and development practitioners worldwide for a common language to describe youth livelihood programs and a practical set of suggestions and reference materials to improve youth livelihood development practices and to expand programming in this increasingly important area.
Youth Service Programs: A Study of Promising Models in International Development
This study provides a short history of the evolution of youth service and a description of four program models. Policy makers and program planners will benefit from a short program brief illustrating each model and an annotated list of recommended resources on youth service.
Youth Suicide: Findings from a Pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System
This fact sheet created in partnership with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center contains analyzed data from NVISS, a precursor to the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System that offers information about issues surrounding youth (under age 18) at the time of death and methods used.
Youth Violence Prevention in Latino Communities: A Resource Guide for MCH Professionals
Like many other ethnic groups, Latinos bear a disproportionate share of violence-related morbidity and mortality. This guide presents a demographic profile of Latinos, information on risk and resiliency factors in Latino communities, recommendations for developing effective programs, and the role of maternal and child health professionals.
Youth@Work: Talking Safety
This is a curriculum designed to help teachers and job training programs teach high school-age youth about job health and safety. It consists of six units with a total of 13 interactive activities and an introductory video. Each unit contains adapted activities for youth with learning disabilities.