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Merritt, Eileen; Harkins, Tracy; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara – Grantee Submission, 2021
Student agency is a critical feature of impactful service-learning programs. In this article, we describe lessons learned from a study of Connect Science, and environmental service-learning curriculum and teacher professional development program. We present five ways to amplify student voices in service-learning. Examples from teachers that we…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Service Learning
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Diemer, Matthew A.; Pinedo, Andres; Banales, Josefina; Mathews, Channing J.; Frisby, Michael B.; Wilkerson, Elise M.; McAlister, Sara – Grantee Submission, 2021
Critical consciousness (CC) scholarship frames how more marginalized people deeply analyze, feel empowered to change, and take collective action to redress perceived inequities. These three dimensions of CC correspond to critical reflection, motivation, and action, respectively. This paper aims to re-center action in CC scholarship, given the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Social Action, Empowerment, Change Agents
Lynn A. Newman; Audrey A. Trainor; Harold S. Javitz – Grantee Submission, 2022
We examined the effect of three components of self-determination--autonomy, empowerment, and self-realization--on the postsecondary enrollment of English learners with disabilities, using quasi-experimental propensity score modeling and data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2. Results support the hypothesis that self-determination…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Personal Autonomy, Student Empowerment, Self Actualization
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Logan, Charles W.; Chapman, Amy L.; Krutka, Dan G.; Mehta, Swati; Vakil, Sepehr – Grantee Submission, 2022
Students often have limited opportunities in school to grapple with the ramifications of the increasing influence technology companies exert over their lives. Digital citizenship curricula could be the exception, but they typically emphasize personal safety and respectful behavior online, ignoring more participatory or justice-oriented notions of…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Technological Literacy, Critical Theory, Social Justice
Sarah B. Rosenbach; S. Henry Sherwood; V. Paul Poteat; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Jerel P. Calzo – Grantee Submission, 2022
In a time of unprecedented polarization in the United States, particularly concerning immigration, schools are uniquely positioned to help students understand the consequences of drastic policy changes. Beyond formal settings such as social studies classes, extracurricular activities may be important for fostering discussions about sociohistorical…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Immigrants, Youth, Minority Group Students
Suchor, Katerina – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background: The historical literature on the civil rights movement has tended to underemphasize the movement's educational activities, while literature on the civil rights and Black Power movements has overemphasized ideological and tactical differences between these chapters in the struggle for Black liberation. A few studies have examined…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Schools, African American Influences, African American History
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Ana Maria Meléndez Guevara; Sarah Lindstrom Johnson; Charlie Wall; Kristina Lopez – Grantee Submission, 2024
Service engagement is critical when working with children and families experiencing chronic adversities because of their socially marginalized status. Further, sociodemographic disparities exist in service engagement within service systems including Community-Based Behavioral Health; likely in part, a result of structural issues driving…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Children, Disadvantaged, Sociocultural Patterns
Diana Owen; Alissa Iron-Groth – Grantee Submission, 2020
The potential for quality civic education programs to foster civic empowerment and engagement among young citizens is explored through an examination of three programs for primary and secondary school students implemented by the Center for Civic Education--We the People/James Madison Legacy Project, Presidential and Congressional Academies for…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Student Empowerment, Program Effectiveness
Pellecchia, Melanie; Beidas, Rinad S.; Mandell, David S.; Cannuscio, Carolyn C.; Dunst, Carl J.; Stahmer, Aubyn C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background: Parent-mediated early interventions (EI) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can result in significant improvements in children's cognitive ability, social functioning, behavior, and adaptive skills, as well as improvements in parental self-efficacy and treatment engagement. The common component to efficacious parent-…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Empowerment, Coaching (Performance), Early Intervention
Tareena Musaddiq; Farah Said – Grantee Submission, 2023
In 2004, the government of Punjab, Pakistan introduced a conditional cash assistance program for girls attending secondary schools. We exploit variations in exposure to the program across cohorts and regions to estimate the long run effects of the program on women's marriage and fertility decisions, maternal healthcare utilization and the health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Education, Secondary School Students
Fallon, Lindsay M.; Veiga, Margarida; Sugai, George – Grantee Submission, 2021
Despite widespread implementation of multi-tiered systems of support for behavior (MTSS-B), evidence of racial discipline disproportionality persists. We argue MTSS-B must prioritize racial equity and healing in schools. We first discuss how discipline has centered Whiteness, providing a brief history of relevant events and sociopolitical forces…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Student Behavior, Discipline, Race
Aliza Zivic; John F. Smith; Brian J. Reiser; Kelsey D. Edwards; Michael Novak; Tara A. W. McGill – Grantee Submission, 2018
A tension in designing classroom learning involves balancing the questions and interests of students with the goals of teachers and standards. One approach to navigating this tension in science classrooms is to simultaneously support and constrain students' questions about an observable natural phenomenon in the classroom and then take up those…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Trout, Alexandra L.; Lambert, Matthew C.; Thompson, Ronald; Duppong Hurley, Kristin; Tyler, Patrick – Grantee Submission, 2019
Although newly passed federal regulations mandate the provision of family-based aftercare supports for adolescents served in therapeutic residential care, very little research has been conducted to determine best practice. This efficacy and replication study compares the outcomes of youths and caregivers randomly assigned to On the Way Home (OTWH;…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Empowerment, Self Efficacy, Adolescents
Shogren, Karrie A.; Shaw, Leslie A. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study examined the degree to which the three of the four essential characteristics of self-determination (autonomy, self-realization, psychological empowerment) predicted quality of life-related adult outcome constructs using secondary analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2). The pattern of predictive…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Disabilities, Special Education, Transitional Programs
John, Melissa-Sue; Sibuma, Bernadette; Wunnava, Susmitha; Anggoro, Florencia; Dubosarsky, Mia – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper describes an iterative participatory curriculum design approach to developing a problem-based STEM curriculum for preschool children. The curriculum aims to teach young children problem-solving using an adapted version of the engineering design process (EDP). Despite evidence showing that a rigorous, integrated STEM curriculum promotes…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Problem Based Learning, STEM Education, Curriculum Development
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