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Sustaining Full-Service Community Schools: Lessons from the Tulsa Area Community Schools Initiative
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Adams, Curt M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore sustainability of social conditions and achievement outcomes in six full-service community schools (FSCSs) in two districts (Tulsa and Union Public Schools) associated with the Tulsa Area Community Schools Initiative (TACSI). Three questions guided the inquiry: How has TACSI changed over the last 9 years?…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Community Schools, Outcomes of Education, Integrated Services
Toward a Positive Explanation of Student Differences in Reading Growth
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Adams, Curt M.; Palmer, Anna H. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Education has much in common with professions that are using positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship to transform practice, yet the science behind peak human and group functioning has been slow to displace deficit-based framing of reform policies and improvement strategies in education. Purpose of the Study: This…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Individual Differences, Self Determination, Learning Theories
Igniting Students' Inner Determination: The Role of a Self-Regulated Climate
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Adams, Curt M.; Khojasteh, Jam – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study draws on self-determination theory to conceptualize a type of school climate that has consequences for the social, emotional, and cognitive well-being of students. We argue that a self-regulated climate emerges through a general pattern of interactions that students experience as supporting their psychological needs. For the empirical…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Determination, Educational Environment, Well Being