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Fallon, Lindsay M.; McCarthy, Scott R.; Sanetti, Lisa M. Hagermoser – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
The number of schools implementing school-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) practices nationwide is increasing, but still little is known about the fidelity with which teachers implement SWPBS practices in the classroom. Specifically, data are needed that reflect the consistency with which classroom-based SWPBS practices are implemented, as…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Program Implementation
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Lockhart, Kristi L.; Keil, Frank C.; Aw, Justine – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three studies compared beliefs about natural and late blooming positive traits with those acquired through personal effort, extrinsic rewards or medicine. Young children (5-6 years), older children (8-13 years), and adults all showed a strong bias for natural and late blooming traits over acquired traits. All age groups, except 8- to 10-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preadolescents, Children, Early Adolescents
LaPointe, Michella; Davis, Stephen – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
In an effort to increase the knowledge about professional development programs that promote strong instructional leaders, the Wallace Foundation recently commissioned a study of innovative principal professional development programs and the policy and funding mechanisms that support them. In fall 2003, the foundation awarded a grant to a team of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Master Teachers, Curriculum