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1. Motivations, Engagement, and Aspirations: Choosing Teaching as a Career
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Why do people choose teaching as a career, and what are their levels of professional engagement and career development aspirations on completion of their teacher education qualification? Such information has implications for recruitment authorities, teacher education providers, employers, and policy
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public date: Fri, 06 April 2007 09:00:00 -0500 - (19 MB Type: MPEG)
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2. More than the sum of their parts: How mixed methods help us understand after-school settings
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After-school programs support positive youth development through complex processes. Most efforts to identify developmental supports have not attended to their ecological dimensions. Our research suggests that it is the fit of individual youth with organizational-level characteristics that leads to
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public date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - (19 MB Type: MPEG)
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3. "Privileged" Children and Families: Well-Educated and Well-Off -- But What of Well-Being?
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"Privileged" Children and Families: Well-Educated and Well-Off -- But What of Well-Being? Growing up in the culture of affluence can connote various psychosocial risks. Family wealth does not automatically confer either wisdom in parenting or equanimity of spirit; whereas children rendered atypical
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public date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:00:00 -0500 - (11 MB Type: MPEG)
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4. Student Threats of Violence
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How should schools respond to student threats of violence? In reaction to a series of rampage school shootings--most notably the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School--school divisions across the country began to follow a strict zero tolerance approach to student threats. In contrast, studies by t
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public date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - (19 MB Type: MPEG)
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5. The Nature and Quality of Children's Experiences in Classrooms from Preschool to 5th Grade: Results from National Studies and Research on New Models of Professional Development
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This talk presents findings from standardized observations involving 4,000 preschool-5th classrooms from across the United States, including repeated observations for a sample of 1,000 children followed longitudinally. The results provide a descriptive picture of elementary education in the US and p
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public date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - (19 MB Type: MPEG)
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6. Physical Activity Promotion for Obesity Prevention in Youth
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Obesity rates in American children and adolescents have skyrocketed over the past two decades, and declining physical activity is almost certainly a primary cause of this trend. The consensus public health recommendation indicates that young people should participate in at least 60 minutes of modera
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public date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - (19 MB Type: MPEG)
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7. What is School Readiness?
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Professor Greg Duncan from Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research discusses school readiness.
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public date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - (23 MB Type: MPEG)
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