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Samantha Bates; Dawn Anderson-Butcher – Journal of Character Education, 2023
Coach education and training on character development can improve young people's sport experiences. However, less well understood is the prevalence of coaches trained on character-building strategies and whether those that participate in and value training on these topics have higher self-efficacy and success as a coach (e.g., defined by their…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Athletic Coaches, Case Studies, State Surveys
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Flora, Stephen; Rach, Julia; Brown, Kristopher – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
The current study describes the use of a procedure called the "potty party", an all-day toilet training method using basic learning principles of "errorless" discrimination with 3 children with incontinence diagnosed with autism. At the start of treatment days, each participant was greeted and prompted to request the bathroom.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Autism, Toilet Training, Positive Reinforcement
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Robyn Walsh; Brett Zyromski; Jennifer Betters-Bubon; Sarah Shrewsbury-Braxton – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events occurring in the household or community that hold painful or distressing outcomes for children immediately and in their future (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). School counselors work with children and young adolescents suffering from negative mental health…
Descriptors: Trauma, Early Experience, School Counselors, Experience
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Travis R. Scheadler; Dawn Anderson Butcher; Samantha Bates – Journal of Youth Development, 2024
Sport-based positive youth development programs focus on life skill development and transfer. However, few long-term follow-up studies examine life skill transfer and application of skills from the perspective of sport-based positive youth development participants who are now young adults. To explore long-term skill development, transfer, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Youth Programs, Skill Development, Daily Living Skills
Racquel L. Armstrong – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School districts across the country are experiencing a mass exodus of teachers and administrators while those who stay struggle to maintain the level of productivity needed to lead our schools and ensure a high-quality education for our nation's students (DeMatthews et. al., 2021; Peters-Hawkins et.al., 2018; Superville, 2020). Black women, in…
Descriptors: School Districts, Women Administrators, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Clary, Christy D. – Journal of Extension, 2018
A picture is worth a thousand words! Extension professionals are often looking for the picture that best captures an event and tells its story. Look beneath the surface, though, and a picture is worth much more. Developing a 4-H press corps results in a collection of useful photos but has the added benefit of providing 4-H members with an…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Extension Education, Youth Programs, Youth Opportunities
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Bronsil, Beth; Dahlmeier, Crystal – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2017
The Thomaston Woods Early Childhood program opened in October 2014, operating one day a week, with a school year that stretched to the end of July. Children of families living in the Thomaston Woods community, ages 3-6, had first choice and attended free of charge. While a one-day-a-week Montessori program is not the typical model, the hope was…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Day Programs
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Quigney, Theresa A. – Journal of School Counseling, 2017
The transition to life after high school for students with disabilities and the vital role that school counselors have in assisting the students and their families to achieve success are discussed. As there may be unique requirements for these students in making this transition, it is important that school counselors are acquainted with particular…
Descriptors: Disabilities, School Counselors, Counselor Role, Goal Orientation
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LaForce, Melanie; Noble, Elizabeth; King, Heather; Century, Jeanne; Blackwell, Courtney; Holt, Sandra; Ibrahim, Ahmed; Loo, Stephanie – International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
Background: Inclusive STEM (traditionally known to stand for "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math") high schools are emerging across the country as a mechanism for improving STEM education and getting more and diverse students into STEM majors and careers. However, there is no consensus on what these schools are or should be,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, School Effectiveness, Inclusion
Singhal, Arvind – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Every community has individuals or groups who manage to find better solutions to problems than their peers, although everyone has access to the same resources and challenges. Those are the positive deviants.
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Nutrition, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence
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Dworsky, Amy – Prevention Researcher, 2010
While many young people depend on parental financial and emotional support well past the age of 18, those who are homeless must make the transition to adulthood without that support. This article discusses the needs of homeless youth as they transition to adulthood. It then describes three housing-based independent living programs designed to…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Youth, Individual Needs, Independent Living
Allen, Peg; Ciancio, Jean; Rutkowski, Susie – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2008
For students with disabilities, the opportunity to work in a supportive environment is one that can bring them, and their employers, great rewards. This article describes a program that started more than a decade ago at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, which is giving students just that kind of opportunity through innovative…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Independent Living, Hospitals, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Kroner, Mark J. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2007
In 1981, Lighthouse Youth Services, a private nonprofit agency in Cincinnati, Ohio, began one of the first independent living programs for adolescents in the state. The local county children's services supervisors and Lighthouse administrators had been hearing numerous stories of youth who had left the county's foster and group homes and were…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Independent Living, Adolescents, Housing
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Piiparinen, Richard – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2006
This investigation provides a model for at-risk youth community agencies to tailor their programs to fit the specific needs of their local out-of-school youth. Using a needs-based assessment, baseline data were gathered on Cleveland African Americans (N = 187) to pinpoint academic strengths and deficits, career interests, and life-skill needs. The…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Public Agencies, Program Development, Dropout Programs
Norland, Emmalou; Oberst, M. Claire – 1995
In 1994, an evaluation was made of the Adult Education for the Homeless (AEH) program in Ohio. Ohio currently has the third largest AEH project (of 32 states), with 40 sites spread over 12 locations. The evaluation was both formative and summative and was based on theoretical models of adult education (Teaching-Learning Exchange Theory and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Daily Living Skills
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