Sentences with phrase «comer school development»

In the late 1960s, during his early days at Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center, James Comer began piloting a program called the Comer School Development Program.

«The Comer School Development Program: A Theoretical Analysis.»

Given the similarities between the Comer School Development Program and site - based management, the different results are striking.

Response Most school reform programs, such as Success for All, Comer School Development Program, Knowledge is Power Program and High Schools That Work, have their own strategies and their own profiles.

Participants included James Comer, an internationally known child development expert and professor of child psychiatry at Yale University who pioneered the «Comer School Development Program,» which applies child and adolescent development principles to build relationships that allow students to take responsibility for their own learning.

Making Schools Work examines various approaches that schools are currently undertaking to raise student achievement, including Comprehensive School Reform models, such as the Comer School Development Program and Success For All.

Comer School Development Program, 55 College St., New Haven, CT 06510, ph 203-737-1020.

Not exact matches

The major thrust of the initiative will be to disseminate the ideas and practices pioneered by James P. Comer, the Yale University child psychiatrist whose beliefs about the inseparability of social and academic development have been embraced by a growing number of schools.

Some years ago, a proposed model for school achievement labeled Atlas, which brought together the approaches of Theodore Sizer, Howard Gardner, the Educational Development Corporation, and Comer's SDP, received funding in a competitive process to develop the model and implement it in various schools.

Recent studies of whole - school - reform programs and school management have included only two randomized experiments, both on James Comer's School Development Program, which means that the effects of Catholic schools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental technschool - reform programs and school management have included only two randomized experiments, both on James Comer's School Development Program, which means that the effects of Catholic schools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental technschool management have included only two randomized experiments, both on James Comer's School Development Program, which means that the effects of Catholic schools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental technSchool Development Program, which means that the effects of Catholic schools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental techschools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental techSchools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental techniques.

Thirty years after James Comer began his work that has resulted in the School Development Program, and again we have no clear answer.

To judge by the quality of the educational evaluation work I know best — on school desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectivschool desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectivSchool Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectiveness.

From his perspective as professor of child psychiatry and director of the school - development program at Yale University's Child Study Center, Dr. Comer contrasts the experience of his family with that of black families that have not been able to surmount such barriers.

Wallace supported more than 40 projects, including school restructuring and improvement networks (such as Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools, James Comer's School Development Program and John Goodlad's Institute for Educational Inquiry); school - university partnerships; three major evaluations; and a substantial body of research involving hundreds of scholars and teacher educators and thousands of teaschool restructuring and improvement networks (such as Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools, James Comer's School Development Program and John Goodlad's Institute for Educational Inquiry); school - university partnerships; three major evaluations; and a substantial body of research involving hundreds of scholars and teacher educators and thousands of teaSchool Development Program and John Goodlad's Institute for Educational Inquiry); school - university partnerships; three major evaluations; and a substantial body of research involving hundreds of scholars and teacher educators and thousands of teaschool - university partnerships; three major evaluations; and a substantial body of research involving hundreds of scholars and teacher educators and thousands of teachers.

Comer Process sees a harmonious school culture and holistic child development as the avenue to student gains.

That is a core concept of the school and child development strategy created mainly for elementary schools by Yale University child psychiatrist James Comer, and of the program that KIPP's founders, Mike Feinberg and David Levin, created for middle schools.

«A Review of the Literature on the Effectiveness of Comer's School Development Program.»

David A. Squires is Coordinator of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment / Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center, Comer Project for Change in Education, School Development Program, Yale University.

We believe Comer's program succeeds for two major reasons: it supports a change in the school culture, and it focuses on children's development — their total development, not just their speech, language, and intellectual capabilities.

Among the many sites that have successfully implemented Comer's approach, known as the School Development Program, are Washington, D.C.; Prince George's County, Maryland; Camden, New Jersey; School District 13 in Brooklyn, New York; Dade County, Florida; Charlotte and Greensboro, North Carolina; Dallas; Chicago; Detroit; San Diego; and New Orleans.

For example, Comer's School Development Project demonstrates that strengthening the connections between urban school professionals and parents of low socioeconomic status can improve their children's academic achievement (Comer, Haynes, Joyner, & Ben - Avie, School Development Project demonstrates that strengthening the connections between urban school professionals and parents of low socioeconomic status can improve their children's academic achievement (Comer, Haynes, Joyner, & Ben - Avie, school professionals and parents of low socioeconomic status can improve their children's academic achievement (Comer, Haynes, Joyner, & Ben - Avie, 1996).