Weekly – Advancing Ideas 4 School Health

In Favor of Myself program Initiative Description: The program consisted of nine 90 minute lessons delivered weekly over 2 months. Discussion topics included introduction and contract establishment, self-esteem and body image during adolescence, effect of mass media, advertisements, stereotypes and beauty myths on self-esteem, body image and behaviors, and influence of interpersonal and intrapersonal communication […]

Before/Afterschool Activity
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| Academics, Academic Performance, Parental Involvement in School

Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) https://www.cde.state.co.us/up/tips_interactive_homework Initiative Description: Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork: a homework approach to promote student learning, parent-child interactions, and parent-teacher communication. Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) interactive homework assignments include clear objectives for learning, instructions for completion, and explicit instructions to the student for involving family members. TIPS assignments […]

Classroom Activity
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| Health Literacy

Initiative Description: Teachers attended 2 professional learning sessions prior to implementing their planned play-based learning experiences over a period of 8 weeks. The implementation protocol consisted of 1) providing the experiences when children were most cognitively alert (at the start of the sessions) 2) implementing play experiences at least 2x/week 3) using a range of […]

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| Academics, Cognitive Skills

Virtual Traveler Initiative Description: A program of pre-prepared physically active lesson sessions. Sessions included embedded Google Earth videos showing transitions between different global locations. Accompanying text provided questions on session content and prompted children to simulate appropriate on-the-spot movements of moderate-to-vigorous intensity as they “travelled” to and interacted with locations. Schools were randomized to an […]

Educational or Curriculum
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| Academics, Classroom Behavior, Cognitive Skills

Mindful Schools Curriculum Initiative Description: All classrooms were randomly assigned to receive the Mindful Schools (MS) curriculum or MS + additional 7 once-weekly classes (MS+). The MS curriculum was delivered to students in 15 minute sessions 3 times/week for 5 weeks. MS+ included curriculum + additional once-weekly classes for 15 minutes for 7 weeks. Content […]

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| Academics, Cognitive Skills

CHIEF & HOPS Programs Initiative Description: Students diagnosed with ADHD were randomized to receive either a contingency managment (CHIEF) or a skills-based (HOPS) treamtemt for homework problems. Both treatments included 16 individual sessions that were 20 minutes each and 2 parent/family meetings. Adolescents and school mental health (SMH) professionals reported on the working alliance in […]

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| School Climate, Social Emotional Skills

An abbreviated version of the PATHS Curriculum http://www.pathstraining.com/main/ Initiative Description: An abbreviated version of the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) an SEL Curriculum implemented by school-based mental health clinicians in classrooms. Study Results: Increased emotional understanding and prosocial behaviors Reference: Gibson, J. E., Werner, S. S., & Sweeney, A. (2015). Evaluating an abbreviated version of […]

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| School Climate, Social Emotional Skills

Initiative Description: The “I Can Problem Solve” program, consisting of 83 lessons, 20-30 minutes per lesson delivered over the course of 4 months focused on pro-social behaviors. Study Results: Improved pro-social and introvert behaviors of children in the experimental group were significantly improved opposed to the control group. Reference: Anliak, S., & Sahin, D. (2010). […]

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| School Climate, Social Emotional Skills

Strong Kids and Strong Teens Programs https://strongkids.uoregon.edu/index.html Initiative Description: The Strong Kids and Strong Teens programs, which incorporated a combination of cognitive-behavioral and affective education techniques, with each lesson containing opportunities for review of prior concepts, instruction and practice of new skills, corrective feedback, generalization activities, and student handouts/worksheets. Study Results: Improved social-emotional knowledge and […]

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| School Climate, Social Emotional Skills

PATHS Curriculum Initiative Description: Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) was implemented over a 10-week period and students received classwide explicit instruction for 20 to 30 minutes, two to three times per week. Study Results: Increased prosocial behaviors and resulted in increased cooperative play among the three at risk students measured. Reference: Bardon, L. A., Dona, […]