Audit report on Bettendorf Community School District in Bettendorf, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Bettendorf Community School District in Bettendorf, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Bettendorf Community School District in Bettendorf, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Bettendorf Community School District in Bettendorf, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Report on a special investigation of the Melcher-Dallas Community School District (District) for the period July 1, 2013 through January 31, 2016

Report on a special investigation of the Melcher-Dallas Community School District (District) for the period July 1, 2013 through January 31, 2016

Community School of São Miguel de Machede: A decade of Learning

the Community School of São Miguel de Machede exists since 1998. A model of Community Education has been developed in this decade of existence, which not being confined to the frequent profiles of the most common approaches in Adult Education, has been the result of a process of symbiosis between a practice that normally precedes the conceptualization and a thought which has always expressed the concern of interpreting and enrich that practice. Setting on a model of learning based on the PADéCA – Program of Helping the Development of the Capacity to Learn, proposed by Berbaum (1988), the Community School of São Miguel de Machede has been developing several activities centred on a fundamental concern: to create easy and qualified accesses, in this community (council of Evora), so that the respective members can learn to exercise their principal rights of citizenship, in the territory where they live and in a circumstance of equality of opportunities in relation to the remaining fellow countrymen. Being a project with a decade of life, it is now possible to speak of a history full of stories and learning experiences, which occurred as a result of a rich interaction between the initial thoughts and impulses of the theoretical approaches and a reality full of unexpectedness, mutability and humanity resulting from the complexity that a living community presents, with a history and a present, but not always with clear and positive idea about the respective future.

Audit report on Clarke Community School District in Osceola, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2016

Audit report on Clarke Community School District in Osceola, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2016

Report on a special investigation of the girls’ basketball program and the Activities Department at Roosevelt High School within the Des Moines Independent Community School District for the period August 8, 2006 through November 30, 2016

Report on a special investigation of the girls’ basketball program and the Activities Department at Roosevelt High School within the Des Moines Independent Community School District for the period August 8, 2006 through November 30, 2016

Newham’s Every Child a Sports Person (NECaSP): A Summative Process Evaluation of a School-and-Community Based Intervention in East London, UK

Background: The NECaSP intervention aspires to increase sport and physical activity (PA) participation amongst young people in the UK. The aims of this paper are to report on a summative process evaluation of the NECaSP and make recommendations for future interventions. Methods: Seventeen schools provided data by students aged 11-13 (n=1,226), parents (n=192) and teachers (n= 14) via direct observation and questionnaires. Means, standard deviations and percentages were calculated for socio-demographic data. Qualitative data was analysed via directed content analysis and main themes identified. Results: Findings indicate further administrative, educational and financial support will help facilitate the success of the programme in improving PA outcomes for young people, and of other similar intervention programmes globally. Data highlighted the need to engage parents to increase likelihood of intervention success. Conclusions: One main strength of this study is the mixed-methods nature of the process evaluation. It is recommended that future school based interventions that bridge sports clubs and formal curriculum provision, should consider a more broad approach to the delivery of programmes throughout the academic year, school week and school day. Finally, changes in the school curriculum can be successful once all parties are involved (community, school, families).

Tying it Together: Education-Focused Community Change Initiatives

Policymakers make many demands of our schools to produce academic success. At the same time, community organizations, government agencies, faith-based institutions, and other groups often are providing support to students and their families, especially those from high-poverty backgrounds, that are meant to impact education but are often insufficient, uncoordinated, or redundant. In many cases, these institutions lack access to schools and school leaders. What’s missing from the dominant education reform discourse is a coordinated education-focused approach that mobilizes community assets to effectively improve academic and developmental outcomes for students. This study explores how education-focused comprehensive community change initiatives (CCIs) that utilize a partnership approach are organized and sustained. In this study, I examine three research questions: 1. Why and how do school system-level community change initiative (CCI) partnerships form? 2. What are the organizational, financial, and political structures that support sustainable CCIs? What, in particular, are their connections to the school systems they seek to impact? 3. What are the leadership functions and structures found within CCIs? How are leadership functions distributed across schools and agencies within communities? To answer these questions, I used a cross-case study approach that employed a secondary data analysis of data that were collected as part of a larger research study sponsored by a national organization. The original study design included site visits and extended interviews with educators, community leaders and practitioners about community school initiatives, one type of CCI. This study demonstrates that characteristics of sustained education-focused CCIs include leaders that are critical to starting the CCIs and are willing to collaborate across institutions, a focus on community problems, building on previous efforts, strategies to improve service delivery, a focus on education and schools in particular, organizational arrangements that create shared leadership and ownership for the CCI, an intermediary to support the initial vision and collaborative leadership groups, diversified funding approaches, and political support. These findings add to the literature about the growing number of education-focused CCIs. The study’s primary recommendation—that institutions need to work across boundaries in order to sustain CCIs organizationally, financially, and politically—can help policymakers as they develop new collaborative approaches to achieving educational goals.

A educação ambiental nos espaços de convivência : tecendo a cultura da sustentabilidade nas redes cotidianas de uma escola municipal de Vila Velha/ES

Este trabalho tem como objetivo problematizar a ecoformação de professoras e alunos em espaços de convivência, potencializados com as experiências da IV Conferência Nacional Infanto-juvenil de Meio Ambiente (CNIJMA), visitas monitoradas, aulas de campo e saídas. Ancorada na Política Estruturante de Educação Ambiental, entendo que esses espaços de convivência expressam um processo educacional, permanente, continnum e transformador. Tendo como mediadora a COM-Vida (Comissão de Meio Ambiente e Qualidade de Vida) e o Tratado de Educação Ambiental para as Sociedades Sustentáveis e Responsabilidade Global, a Educação Ambiental visa fortalecer a cidadania ambiental em movimento escola-comunidade-escola. Impregnada de sentidos e significados, busquei pesquisar a ecoformação dessa coletividade pelo viés do Paradigma da Complexidade, que me apresentou as incertezas como um processo potencializador da criatividade, da amizade e da solidariedade que tecem a rede de saberes e fazeres que envolvem esses sujeitos investigados, além de evidenciar o cuidado de si com o outro e com o mundo. Ao trilhar os caminhos desta pesquisa, optei por abordagens qualitativas inspiradas na fenomenologia-existencial proposta por Martin Heidegger, Michèle Sato e Paulo Freire e, dessa forma, pude investigar os saberes ambientais que atravessam as redes cotidianas da escola pesquisada, potencializando a cultura da sustentabilidade. Valendo-me da observação participante das práticas pedagógicas, encontrei nas narrativas das professoras e alunos a expressividade de um processo ecoformativo que instiga outras racionalidades comprometidas com a ética, a coletividade, a afetividade, a solidariedade, as transformações sociais, a diversidade e a outridade.

Os desafios da inclusão de alunos com síndrome de down

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Ciências da Educação - Especialidade Educação especial

Prática de ensino supervisionado no 1.º e 2.º ciclo do ensino básico: perspetivas e práticas sobre a realização dos trabalhos para casa

Relatório Final apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Ensino do 1.º e do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

(Des)construindo conceções sobre as histórias para a infância: promoção de hábitos de leitura em casa entre adulto-criança

Relatório da Prática Profissional Supervisionada Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar

Education in Brazil: A big challenge?

Brazil is an emerging country where community school is being promoted in order to respond to the still significant gap between the poor and the rich population. This paper attempts to analyze one community school. Although other social programs whose scopes are also to enhance education have been implemented, such as the "Bolsa Familia", the impact of community schools need attention as well. Indeed, community schools must be studied due to the relevant positive attributes they can provide. Moreover, by improving the quality of education, studies show an enhancement of a higher-skilled nation and a better qualified labour force for the future. To clearly demonstrate the impacts of these communities, the treatment effect will be measured by using a matching estimator.

Évaluation de la perception des intervenants de la mise en œuvre d’un modèle d’équipe de soutien à l’enseignant pour intégrer les services à l’école en contexte inclusif

L’école ne semble plus en mesure de répondre par elle-même aux besoins multidimensionnels des élèves en difficulté qui sont maintenant intégrés dans la classe ordinaire. (Cooper, 1999; Deslandes & Bertrand, 2001; Dryfoos, 1994; Greenberg, 2004; Ministère de l'Éducation du Loisir et du Sport, 2005; Paavola, 1995; Riddle & Tett, 2001; The Learning Partnership, 2004). Les équipes de soutien à l’enseignant semblent un moyen efficace d’appuyer l’enseignant et l’élève, mais cette approche est très peu utilisée dans les milieux éducatifs au Canada. Certains élèves présentant des problèmes complexes ne reçoivent pas l’appui nécessaire faute d’un manque de spécialiste à l’intérieur du cadre scolaire. Dans cette perspective, les services intégrés pourraient être une voie propice pour le travail de partenariat mais plusieurs obstacles semblent empêcher la collaboration et la coopération entre les intervenants scolaires et les partenaires de la communauté. La présente recherche a identifié un modèle qui permet d’appuyer l’enseignant dans sa pratique afin d’aider l’élève en difficulté et de le maintenir dans la classe ordinaire. Le modèle d’équipe de soutien à l’enseignant mis en œuvre dans les écoles d’un conseil francophone scolaire de l’Ontario est un modèle dérivé de Chalfant, Pysh et Moultrie (1979). Vers les années 1970, ces équipes ont été formées en vue d’offrir un appui à l’enseignant de classe ordinaire pour éviter les placements d'élèves en éducation spéciale l’intention est encore la même en 2010. Par ce modèle, nous favorisons l’entrée des services intégrés à l’intérieur du cadre scolaire et les partenaires travaillent en équipe afin de favoriser le succès scolaire des élèves. Un coordonnateur du milieu scolaire est le lien qui assure la coordination et les suivis des différentes recommandations proposées par l’équipe. Le travail de collaboration et de coopération est essentiel pour assurer le succès scolaire de l’élève. Les résultats de cette mise en œuvre nous ont permis de constater que le modèle est efficace dans l’atteinte de ses buts. D’une façon générale, les intervenants scolaires affirment se sentir effectivement appuyés par les équipes de soutien tant dans la formation, les échanges et les discussions que dans les ressources matérielles. Ce qui ressort le plus souvent de leurs propos est qu’ils apprécient la réelle collaboration et la concertation qui existent entre tous les intervenants qui assurent les suivis. Quatre-vingt-treize pour cent des répondants qui ont participé aux équipes de soutien affirment qu’il y a eu des changements positifs chez les élèves. Différents défis ont aussi été relevés. Mentionnons entre autre, la lourdeur du rôle du coordonnateur, la grandeur du territoire du Conseil (perte de temps sur la route), des cas de conflits existants entre les parents et l’école. Indépendamment de ces défis, l’application du modèle d’équipe de soutien à l’enseignant répond à l’objectif d’inclusion scolaire des élèves en difficulté tout en permettant aux enseignants de ne pas se sentir seuls ni d’être effectivement seuls à assumer ce mandat.

Un compromiso con la diversidad.

Se presenta la experiencia de Anna Hassan, profesora de la multicultural Millfields Community School, ubicada en el conflictivo barrio londinense de Hackney, que se ha dedicado a reestructurar la política educativa del centro, involucrando a todo el personal. Con ello se ha logrado una mayor atención al alumnado, un cambio de actitudes y valores, una dirección sólida, un compromiso con las familias y una pedagogía, en definitiva, respetuosa e interactiva.