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Margaret DeZelar; Maureen T. S. Burns; Kimberly Rosania; Amy M. Bohnert – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
Collective impact (CI) initiatives provide a promising collaborative community-based approach for addressing health disparities, but they are challenging to evaluate. This paper provides a detailed strategy for addressing these challenges through a case study, with the goal of not only of evaluating the CI, but also putting organizations in a…
Descriptors: Collectivism, Community Education, School Community Relationship, Access to Health Care
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Heffernan, Debra J.; Wasonga, Teresa A. – Athens Journal of Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore quality of life and demographic influences among Illinois school district superintendents. Quality of Life was defined as "individual's subjective evaluation of the degree to which his or her most important needs, goals, and values are fulfilled" (Frisch, 1992, p. 29) leading to general state of…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Gender Differences, Superintendents, Well Being
Blake, Stephen; Brown, Debra; Manwaring, Robert; Mercado, Efrain; Perry, Mary; Stewart, Vince; Tran, Samantha – Children Now, 2019
California has experienced a decline in adequate funding for the public education system that has created a jarring reality for its 6.2 million students. While recent investments have helped schools fully recover from the devastating cuts made during the great recession, that additional spending has not come close to what is needed to achieve the…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Public Education, Educational Finance, Teacher Student Ratio
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Vela, Javier C.; Lerma, Eunice; Ikonomopoulos, James – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2017
In the current study, we investigated the psychometric properties of two meaningful measures of subjective well-being among Mexican American high school and college students. Participants completed the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) or Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) as measures of subjective well-being. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Life Satisfaction, Psychological Patterns
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Jingtong Pan; Kimberly Kendziora; Christina LiCalsi; Karthik Ramesh; George Stifel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Research consistently emphasizes the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) in education settings (Cipriano et al., 2023; Wigelsworth et al., 2023). In addition, it has become increasingly evident that educators' social-emotional competence and well-being plays a crucial role in fostering SEL among students (Braun et…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Well Being
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Warren, Christopher M.; Dyer, Ashley; Blumenstock, Jesse; Gupta, Ruchi S. – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Background: Asthma places a heavy burden on Chicago's schoolchildren, particularly in low-income, minority communities. Recently, our group developed a 10-week afterschool program, the Student Asthma Research Team (START), which successfully engaged high school youth in a Photovoice investigation of factors impacting their asthma at school and in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Telecommunications, Diseases, Health Promotion