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Meredith P. Richards; Cheyenne Phillips; Alexandra E. Pavlakis; J. Kessa Roberts – Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
In August 2017, the Houston area was ravaged by one of the costliest natural disasters in history--Hurricane Harvey. In this brief, the first in a two-part series, the authors examine the effects of Harvey on student homelessness in the Houston Independent School District (Houston ISD). The authors find that student homelessness in Houston ISD…
Descriptors: Housing, Natural Disasters, Homeless People, School Districts
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Horton, Deborah; Spigelmyer, Pamela; Zoucha, Rick; Rebmann, Terri – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: The threat of a disaster or potential for a disaster is something that may be experienced by individuals globally. Schools are places of daily mass gatherings which make them an ideal target for mass casualty, natural disasters, and biological incidents. Methods: An integrative review using Whittemore and Knafl's model was conducted to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, Planning
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Bleier, Mitch – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
Simplified, reductionist approaches to curriculum design and delivery are pervasive in science education. In ecological curricula--particularly in, but not limited to K-12--biomes, ecosystems, habitats, and other units of study are simplified and presented as static, easily identified and described entities. Characteristics, components, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Science Instruction, Ecology, Teaching Methods
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Yamamoto, Noriko; Imai-Matsumura, Kyoko – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Japan's Social Thinking and Academic Readiness Training (START) program Academic Readiness (AR) lesson aims to improve self-regulation, executive function, and behavior problems in kindergarten children, but the effects of the START program AR lessons in unfavorable circumstances are unclear. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Training, Kindergarten
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Legaspino, Liza Cordero; Varela, Leonora Parungao – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2023
Disasters continue to have adverse effects around the globe leaving many lives susceptible to hazards and fatalities most especially children. The Philippines, known to be one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, experiences earthquakes, typhoons, and flooding yearly. For the reason of the country's vulnerability to disasters, it is…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters
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Larsen, Thomas; Gerike, Matthew; Harrington, John, Jr. – Journal of Geography, 2022
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth's system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Geography Instruction, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
Training is an integral part of school safety, security, emergency management and preparedness; everyone involved in the plan needs to know his or her roles and responsibilities before, during, and after an emergency. As one's emergency operations plan (EOP) planning team develops the training and exercise schedule, keep in mind that the Readiness…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, School Safety, Technical Assistance, Computer Simulation
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Moore, Pauline; Jackson, Brian A.; Augustine, Catherine H.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Phillips, Andrea – RAND Corporation, 2021
School leaders across the United States face the challenge of creating safe and secure environments across their campuses in a way that helps promote the achievement of schools' educational objectives. To help them meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asked the Homeland…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Safety, Public Agencies, Kindergarten
Nanmathi Manian; Wendy McColskey; Kim Benton; Noah Lipshie – National Comprehensive Center, 2021
School communities in both urban and rural settings need trauma-informed (TI) supports; however, the adversities experienced and access to student supports may be unique to rural school communities. In addition, the contextual challenges experienced by rural schools and communities, as well as the strengths that can be drawn from them, will…
Descriptors: Trauma, Rural Schools, Child Development, School Districts
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2019
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's taxpayers and students. The Department continues to face significant challenges in FY 2020 that impact its…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Strategic Planning, Grants, Program Administration
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2018
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's taxpayers and students. The Department continues to face significant challenges in FY 2019 that impact its…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Strategic Planning, Program Administration, Program Evaluation
Webre, Elizabeth C. – Online Submission, 2011
An annotated list of children's books published within the last 15 years and related to Louisiana culture, environment, and economics are linked to the Louisiana Content Standards. Readability levels of selected books are included, providing guidance as to whether a book is appropriate for independent student use. The thirty-three books listed are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Readability, Academic Standards, State Standards
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Carson, Russell L. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2008
In August and September 2005, two violent hurricanes--Katrina and Rita--hit Louisiana. Hundreds of thousands of residents were relocated to temporary living communities, where most of the economically poor remain today. This state's largest trailer community, "Renaissance Village," was erected almost overnight in a cow pasture in Baker,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Children, Elementary Education, Natural Disasters
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Simsek, Canan Lacin – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2007
Earthquake, a natural disaster, is among the fundamental problems of many countries. If people know how to protect themselves from earthquake and arrange their life styles in compliance with this, damage they will suffer will reduce to that extent. In particular, a good training regarding earthquake to be received in primary schools is considered…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Kindergarten, Knowledge Level, Seismology
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Sprung, Manuel – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Seven months after Hurricane Katrina, 183 five- to eight-year-old children were surveyed about their own intrusive thoughts and tested on their level of cognitive functioning (knowledge about the mind and the mind's operations). Basic developmental research suggests that children who lack sufficient knowledge about the mind should have…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Children
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