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Positive Impacts of a Sport Intervention on Male Students of Color and School Climate
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Mala, Jesse; Corral, Michael D.; McGarry, Jennifer E.; Macauley, Charles D. T.; Arinze, Nneka A.; Ebron, Kolin – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2022
A positive school climate is strongly associated with enhanced student outcomes. With the disengagement of Black and Latinx youth living in poverty being at an all-time high, participation in sport-based youth development (SBYD) programs may enhance school climate, while capitalizing on existing interests. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Males, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Promotion of Social and Emotional Competence: Experiences from a Mental Health Intervention Applying a Whole School Approach
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Nielsen, Line; Meilstrup, Charlotte; Nelausen, Malene Kubstrup; Koushede, Vibeke; Holstein, Bjørn Evald – Health Education, 2015
Purpose: Within the framework of Health Promoting Schools "Up" is an intervention using a whole school approach aimed at promoting mental health by strengthening social and emotional competence among schoolchildren. Social and emotional competence is an integral part of many school-based mental health interventions but only a minority of…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Competence, Health Promotion
Cool Girls, Inc.: Promoting the Positive Development of Urban Preadolescent and Early Adolescent Girls
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Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Thomason, Jessica; DiMeo, Michelle; Broomfield-Massey, Kimberley – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2011
The past two decades have seen a transformation in youth programming toward a comprehensive positive youth development (YD) framework. Cool Girls, Inc., a YD program, focuses on improving girls' life chances by promoting positive behaviors and attitudes in multiple domains. These include self-concept, academic orientation, future orientation, and…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Self Concept, Drug Use
Success for All[R]. WWC Intervention Report
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2009
Success for All (SFA)[R] is a whole-school reform model that includes a reading, writing, and oral language development program for students in prekindergarten through eighth grade. Classroom reading instruction is delivered in daily 90-minute blocks to students grouped by reading ability. Immediate intervention with tutors who are certified…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Intervention, Oral Language, Reading Achievement
Comer's School Development Program in Chicago: Effects on Involvement with the Juvenile Justice System from the Late Elementary through the High School Years
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Cook, Thomas D.; Hirschfield, Paul J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
In 2000, Cook, Murphy, and Hunt published a multilevel study of Chicago inner-city schools in order to evaluate James Comer's School Development Program (SDP). One main finding was that SDP reduced the rate of change and final posttest mean when delinquency was assessed annually between Grades 5 and 8 using a self-report measure of acting out. The…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Grade 5, Social Justice
Sexual Risk Attitudes and Intentions of Youth Aged 12-14 Years: Survey Comparisons of Parent-Teen Prevention and Control Groups
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Lederman, Regina P.; Chan, Wenyaw; Roberts-Gray, Cynthia – Behavioral Medicine, 2004
In this study, the authors compared differences in sexual risk attitudes and intentions for three groups of youth (experimental program, n = 90; attention control, n = 80; and nonparticipant control, n = 634) aged 12-14 years. Two student groups participated with their parents in programs focused on strengthening family interaction and prevention…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Experimental Programs, Pregnancy