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Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Amar, Jessica; Ashwal, Yahaloma – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
This study views school as a platform for leading social change in the local community, with a particular emphasis on the school's parents as a part of that community. As such, taking the case of a green school, we examined the relative effects of three means--outreach, communication and attentiveness to the local community's needs--that can…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Social Change, Community Needs
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Wilson, Nance; Dasho, Stefan; Martin, Anna C.; Wallerstein, Nina; Wang, Caroline C.; Minkler, Meredith – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project is an afterschool empowerment program and research project for underserved early adolescents. Central to YES! is an empowerment intervention that provides early adolescents with opportunities for civic engagement with other youth around issues of shared concern in their schools and neighborhoods.…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Change, Empowerment, Neighborhoods