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Should Students Be Required To Learn A Secondary Language From Grades 1-12?, Lorena Corbelli
Should Students Be Required To Learn A Secondary Language From Grades 1-12?, Lorena Corbelli
Honors Program Contracts
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Educating For Democracy: Policy Recommendations For The Revitalization Of Civic Learning In The United States, Meghan E. O'Brien
Educating For Democracy: Policy Recommendations For The Revitalization Of Civic Learning In The United States, Meghan E. O'Brien
Community Engagement Student Work
The recent decades have brought upon a dramatic shift in the United States’ political and social climate. Increases in ideological polarization and extremism have taken hold as individual trust, knowledge, and participation in democratic processes has declined (Gould et al., 2011). These trends have contributed to the rising severity of social issues facing the United States - climate change, income inequality, systemic racism - as well as an inability to collectively address these issues. The need for a solution to these trends has never been greater as the nation struggles to perfect a democratic structure in which citizens are equitably …
Characteristics Of The Recess Team That Mediate Recess Quality, Christina Mcchesney
Characteristics Of The Recess Team That Mediate Recess Quality, Christina Mcchesney
Community Engagement Student Work
This evaluation assessed the significance of recess team and Recess Coach (RC) characteristics on the quality of recess at elementary schools implementing the Playworks TeamUp program. Recess quality was measured by Great Recess Framework (GRF) data collected by Playworks staff across 18 regions. Three GRF factors: Student Behavior, Adult Engagement and Supervision; and Transitions were evaluated along with each of the individual GRF items that comprise them. Schools were characterized using Recess Team Member Surveys. Results indicate that neither recess team size nor Recess Coach’s time on the recess team relative to length of employment are significant predictors of recess …
Informal Learning: How Care Providers Can Engage In Learning Outside Of The Classroom, Christina Lannon
Informal Learning: How Care Providers Can Engage In Learning Outside Of The Classroom, Christina Lannon
Honors Senior Capstone Projects
Informal learning is learning that happens spontaneously with no explicit instruction taking place (Latchem, 2014). The term informal learning was developed in 1950 by Malcolm Knowles in his work Informal Adult Education (as cited in Cofer, 2000) and many others have researched best practices for informal learning involving children (Latchem, 2014; Song et al., 2017). In many cases, it is the responsibility of the adult to initiate informal learning experiences by providing quality explanations for the many questions that children ask and engaging in everyday conversation with children. Much of the research that has been done exploring informal learning has …
Kindness In The Classroom, Ashley Tomich
Kindness In The Classroom, Ashley Tomich
Honors Senior Capstone Projects
This study investigates the impact direct and explicit teaching has on a student’s level of empathy in a third grade classroom using the Kindness in the Classroom curriculum .
Computer Science Unit, Megan Bouchard
Computer Science Unit, Megan Bouchard
Honors Senior Capstone Projects
A collection of ten computer science lesson plans, aligned with Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science Standards, developed for an after school program.