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Eaton, Annelise – Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2019
The winner of the 2018 Pozen Prize for Innovative Schools-- the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers (EMK) in Boston-- seeks to empower underrepresented students to succeed in college and high-wage careers. With an emphasis on healthcare-related career exposure and experiential learning, the school places a deliberate focus on preparing…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Student Empowerment, Disproportionate Representation, Experiential Learning
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Sarah W. Beck; Karis Jones; Scott Storm – English Journal, 2019
Dynamic and responsive methods enable teachers to assess students' writing skills precisely and equitably, and to empower students of diverse skill levels to develop their writing. Assessing writing with equity-minded precision requires paying close attention to students' performances as writers, identifying challenges in those performances, and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Writing Evaluation, Student Empowerment, Writing Skills
Hier, Danielle M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research examines the perspectives graduates from a virtual school who are identified as students with disabilities. This research explores this phenomenon through the lens of critical theory, disability theory, school choice theory, critical pedagogy theory and Maslow's theory of a hierarchy of needs. The current research related to online…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, High School Graduates, Attitudes, Virtual Classrooms
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Stallworth-Clark, Rosemarie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study, conducted in a Business/Technology course in a large public high school in Southeastern USA, Fall Semester, 2014, supports the use of Service-Learning in the schools for empowering students to serve the public good. Ninety-two students created classroom "DREAM TEAMS" for researching and seeking solutions for selected…
Descriptors: Service Learning, High School Students, Student Empowerment, Civics
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Fishman, Samuel – English Teaching Forum, 2019
When the author began teaching in Paraguay, he ran into a series of classroom challenges familiar to English teachers around the world: a classroom overflowing with students, a large range of English abilities, and insufficient textbooks and traditional teaching resources. The activity described in this article is a one-size-fits-all activity that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Activities, College Students, High School Students
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Palazzo, Steven J.; Sanman, Ella; Bicknell, Laura E. – International Education Studies, 2019
Background: Obesity continues to afflict adolescents in underserved communities. It is difficult to understand how adolescents perceive empowerment over their health and the health of their communities. The purpose of our study was to describe the impact of the Healthy Heart Ambassador program on adolescents' perceived empowerment through the…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, High School Students, Learner Engagement, Obesity
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Tenorio de Azevedo, Maria Rosalia – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2019
This case study reveals how a faith-based initiative offering structured teacher training in media literacy. The program is centered in Catholic Social Teaching, encouraging the use of critical media literacy in the classroom to aid the learning of social justice issues. The critical literacy of Paulo Freire serves as theoretical framework to help…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Social Justice, Critical Literacy, Teacher Education Programs
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Smith, Darrick; Yeh, Christine J. – Journal of Education, 2019
We explore the dynamics of nurturing, caring, and enabling in a social justice school and how a problematic context of educational enabling can develop when notions of nurturing are not balanced with consistent disciplinary consequences. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight school staff, teachers, and a student at a social justice urban…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Caring, Discipline, Urban Schools
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Phan, Trang – Educational Media International, 2020
A diverse, urban district's Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), committed to transforming instructional tasks through integration of technology, created spaces for collaboration, voice, and choice for the PLI teachers and students. The teachers and students used various web-based technologies for collaboration with their peers, had more…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Technology Integration, Cooperative Learning, Web Based Instruction
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Jessi Thomsen – English Journal, 2018
This article examines the power of composing images as students construct identities and shape their own worlds. It illustrates student empowerment through agency, intellectual engagement, and community investment and suggests that composing with images forms a bridge back to alphabetic-centric composing.
Descriptors: Art Products, Student Empowerment, Personal Autonomy, Learner Engagement
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Jim Davis; Raquel Cook; Jon Ostenson – English Journal, 2015
In this article, the authors describe how self-directed learning allows students to design their own research projects and rubrics, differentiated for their cognitive readiness, learning preferences, interests, and affect. The authors found that students viewed their self-directed learning as challenging but fun because it is relevant and doable,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Student Empowerment, Low Achievement, High School Students
Gross, Trudy Ruth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
By participating within the educational setting in making decisions about their lives that reach beyond choice-making, students with disabilities who acquire the skills of self-determination may express interests and goals through their own authentic voice. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe the experiences and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Student Participation, Individualized Education Programs, High School Students
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Luminais, Misty; Williams, Rhonda Y. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
The Shaw High School marching band has emerged as a collective site of individual and group pride and empowerment in the stories gathered through the community-based "Voicing & Action Project", which the Social Justice Institute debuted in East Cleveland. At first glance, a high school marching band might not have much in common with…
Descriptors: High School Students, Musical Instruments, Social Justice, Communities of Practice
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Falco, Lia; Summers, Jessica J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This goal of this study was to develop a measure that captures the three dimensions of youth purpose proposed by Damon, Menon, and Cotton-Bronk (2003). We tested a theoretical model that links youth purpose (comprised of intention, engagement, and prosocial reasoning) with achievement motivation, agency, and civic engagement for a sample of high…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intention, Prosocial Behavior, Logical Thinking
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Bass, Lisa – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
This qualitative study explores the perspectives of 52 high school students on the meaning of caring in the school setting. Seven focus groups were utilized to collect data. Five groups were racially homogeneous and mixed-gender; one group comprised males of various races; and one group comprised females of various races. In the focus groups,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Empowerment, Student Attitudes, Caring
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