Supporting social-cognitive development in the elementary years: The role of executive function and self-regulation

Every day we make decisions that have repercussions. Sometimes the effects are immediate and intended; other times the effects might be unintended or might not be apparent for years. As parents or educators, part of our role is to support the development of children’s decision-making skills, helping them to develop patterns of adaptive decision-making that will serve them well in their current lives and into the future. Part of successful decision-making involves self-control, a system served by the brain’s executive functions (EF). This involves the ability to put aside immediate reactions and base decisions on a variety of important considerations. Social-cognitive development, the ongoing improvement of the ability to get along with others and to understand others’ emotions, expressions, motivations, and intents, relies, to a large degree, on the same EF systems. The current paper explores the interaction of these two factors (the role of EF in social-cognitive development), explores the research to determine the most effective approaches to improving both factors, and develops a handbook providing activities for educators to use while supporting the growth of both EF and social-cognitive skills. Results of a needs assessment reveal that the majority (59%) of educators surveyed had never used a social skills improvement program in their classrooms, while a full 95% believed that social skills are important or very important for a student’s academic success.

Elementary French; the Essentials of French grammar with exercises

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An elementary treatise on analytic geometry, embracing plane geometry and an introduction to geometry of threee dimensions with numerous examples.

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Graphics for engineers, architects, and builders : a manual for designers, an a text - book for scientific schools. Trusses and arches analyzed and discussed by graphical methods

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A New History of the United States of America for the Use of Schools

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Rudimentary economics for schools and colleges

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Respecting Priorities when Assigning Students to Schools

We consider the problem of assigning students to schools on the basis of priorities. Students are allowed to have equal priority at a school. We characterize the efficient rules which weakly/strongly respect students’ priorities. When priority orderings are not strict, it is not possible to simply break ties in a fixed manner. All possibilities of resolving the indifferences need to be considered. Neither the deferred acceptance algorithm nor the top trading cycle algorithm successfully solve the problem of efficiently assigning the students to schools whereas a modified version of the deferred acceptance algorithm might. In this version tie breaking depends on students’ preferences.

A latin grammar for Schools and colleges

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The elementary spelling book being an improvement on the American Spelling-book

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Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear with introduction and notes explanatory and critical for use in schools and classes

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Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy Based on the Traité de Physique of A. Privat Deschanel

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Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies

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Books and reading; by Brother Azarias of the Brothers of the Christian schools

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The Efficiency of Collective Bargaining in Public Schools.

This paper develops a bargaining model of wage and employment determination for the public sector. the solution to the model generates structural wage and employment equations that are estimated using data from New York State teacher-school district collective bargaining agreements.