Does a multimedia intervention reduce bullying and victimization in third-grade urban schools?

Cachiguango and Harrington present a brief overview and analysis of the article, Using Multimedia to Reduce Bullying and Victimization in Third-Grade Urban Schools, originally published in Professional School Counseling. The authors present a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice including the flexibility of using multimedia interventions for when, where, and by whom a program is implemented

Paving the Road to College: How School Counselors Help Students Succeed

Rich Lapan and Karen Harrington have recently authored Paving the Road to College: How School Counselors Help Students Succeed. This monograph documents the educational reform contributions of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) school counselors in promoting students’ academic achievement, college readiness, and transition from 8th grade into high school. In addition, this report identifies particular actions that a school district can undertake to better utilize and support school counselor professionals. Specifically it recommends ways to enhance collaboration between principals and school counselors and to reduce the burden of non-counseling task

The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah?

Jay Carey and Karen Harrington synthesize what they\u27ve learned from their research regarding statewide evaluations of school counseling practices in Utah and Nebraska. The authors summarize key introductory context points, methods and results, in addition to offering critical perspectives that discuss limitations of the study like the use of a cross-sectional rather than longitudinal design that limits outcome measurability

Oral History Interview on Sheff vs. O\u27Neill (with video)

Karen and Leo Harrington (both born in 1949) recall their activism for school integration in Greater Hartford through their involvement in the 1989 Sheff v O’Neill lawsuit. Previously, in the early 1970s, they became active in housing discrimination testing with Boyd Hinds and the Education/Instruccion organization. They also describe their experiences as West End residents and parents of children in the Hartford Public Schools, followed by their decision to move to suburban West Hartford in the mid-1990s, and the sharp differences in educational quality and student expectations between the two districts

Does a group-based self-esteem enhancement program improve students’ self-esteem as they transition into middle school?

St. Germaine, Harrington, and Dimmitt present a brief overview and analysis of the article, Effects of a self-esteem intervention program on school-age children, originally published in Pediatric Nursing. The authors present a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice, including a discussion of the positive impacts of self-esteem programs during transitional periods for students

Gender and Negotiations: When Does Gender Play a Role in Negotiating?

The fable takes place during the holidays, involving two sisters. One sister is planning to bake a chiffon cake for Christmas dinner; the other, a fruitcake. Both recipes each call for one orange. When the sisters check the pantry, they find only one orange, not the two they need. An argument immediately erupts over who gets the orange. One sister complains that the chiffon cake is wrong for the season. The other retorts the fruitcake may be traditional but nobody likes it. Obvious solutions are out of the question. It being a holiday, they cannot borrow from the very neighbors who will later be their guests, and the stores are closed. The sisters, unwilling to compromise and bake only half a recipe, become more and more entrenched in defending their rights. After a fair amount of bickering, the mother cuts the orange in half. A fair solution? The needs of the sisters remained ambiguous throughout the argument. How would have the solution differed if the sisters were to explain their needs; while one sister needed orange peel, the other needed orange juice. If chiffon cake was intended for solely one sister and the fruitcake was to be donated to another family, would the end result change? Would the sister making the fruitcake, on behalf of others, be more assertive in negotiating for the orange? Would the situation change if this fable was written as an argument between a sister and brother? Some say “yes” (Kolb, 2000

Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation: Annual Review of Research

Presented at the annual American Counseling Association Conference in Honolulu, HI, this presentation outlines and summarizes the most cutting edge in school counseling research for the years 2013-2014

Does Student Success Skills have an impact on school connectedness and self-regulation of inner-city, African-American elementary students?

Brief overview of the article, Connectedness and Self-Regulation as Constructs of the Student Success Skills Program in Inner-City African American Elementary School Students, originally published in the Journal of Counseling & Development. The authors include a summary of the key components of the original study, including the introduction, method, and results sections of the paper. In addition, they offer a critical perspective speaking to the limitations of the study and a section addressing implications for practice like the effects of school counseling interventions on academic achievement indicators

The Study of Periodicity of Eating and Public Health Nutrition Issues

This thesis set out to provide an objective understanding of periodicity of eating in a group of free living adults, by determining the temporal pattern of nutrient intake during eating occasions throughout the day. A dietary assessment study was carried out using a 7-day estimated food diary in a sample of 133 adults recruited from a city local authority. During the survey period, respondents were met on at least three occasions to encourage and motivate them to follow their usual dietary habits and to record their intakes in a as detailed a manner as possible. A combination of quantification methods was used to obtain best estimates for the weights of all food and drink consumed, including a photographic food atlas, manufacturers’ information, the weighing of specific food and drinks, household measures and standard portion sizes. The food and drink information was coded to allow analysis of the data in terms of individual eating occasions. An eating occasion was coded to allow analysis of the data in terms of individual eating occasions. An eating occasion was coded to the nearest hour and included every item of food and drink consumed within an hourly period. Nutrient analysis was carried out using the FOODBASE program on each eating occasion of each of the seven days for each respondent. This program was specifically chosen as it allowed specification of the amount and type of fat used in preparing and cooking foods. The nutrient intake date was entered into SPSS to create a database, which contained every hour of each of the seven days for each respondent, together with the nutrient analysis data of every eating occasion, at the specific hour of consumption. This database was then used to determine the temporal pattern of nutrient intake during eating occasions throughout the day to address a number of questions. Eating occasions of non-nutritive value were not included in the analysis. Four data analysis approaches were explored in order to determine temporal patterns of eating. Only two of these approaches, the eating occasion methods and the eating occasion by individual method, were considered appropriate to represent the temporal pattern of mean nutrient intakes during eating occasions throughout the day in free-living individuals. The eating occasion method was used to determine the amounts of fat consumed during eating occasions of free-living adults on self-selected diets and this information was used to address, for the first time, whether test meals used in postprandial lipeamia studies represent the macronutrient content of eating occasions of free-living adults. Most test meals used in postprandial lipaemia studies contain between 20g and 140g of fat whereas (89%) eating occasions of the free-living adults in this study contained less than 40g of fat. The temporal pattern of fat intake revealed a low-fat high-carbohydrate eating pattern in the early morning hours, the time at which postprandial studies usually administer a single high-fat test meal. Overall, this study showed the usual prostprandial study protocol does not represent the free-living situation. The temporal pattern of eating was also determined to provide baseline date for the development of evidence based dietary guidelines that may involve specific eating occasions of the day and thus set out to make consumer messages more relevant. Three issues were addressed. Firstly, a comparison was made of the temporal pattern of macronutrient intake during eating occasions between high-gat and low-fat consumers. Similar temporal patterns of macronutrient intake were observed although high-fat consumers had great fat intakes (g) and as a result greater energy intakes (MJ) during almost every eating occasion than the low-fat consumers. Secondly, the effect of differences in periodicity of eating on mean daily macronutrient intakes and the temporal pattern of macronutrient intake during eating occasions was determined. The high eating frequency group had higher mean daily energy intakes (P=0.015) and higher proportions of energy from carbohydrate (P-0.006) and sugars (P=0.001) than the low eating frequency group, who had higher proportions of energy from protein (P=0.002). No difference in fat intakes (% energy) was observed between the groups. Similar temporal patterns of macronutrient intake were observed between groups. Thirdly, the day-of –the week effect on macronutrient intakes and the temporal pattern of eating between weekdays and weekend days were investigated. The main finding was a higher total energy intake (P=0.017) but not food energy intake on weekend vs. weekdays. Similar temporal patterns of macronutrient intake were observed between weekdays and weekend days. These investigations demonstrated the importance and value of studying date at the level of eating occasions. This study, however, is limited because of its small sample size. Food and nutrient intake findings of a small non-random population in a country must be also be observed in a random and representative sample of the population before recommendations can be formulated. As part of the North/South Ireland Food Consumption Survey a methodology was developed to ensure the data analysis could be conducted at the level of individual eating occasions. A description of the methodology used is presented in this thesis and the macronutrient intakes and food sources of this representative sample of Irish adults are described. Fat intakes (37% food energy) were higher than recommendations (35% food energy), carbohydrate intakes (46%) were lower than recommendations (50% + food energy). Protein intakes were adequate with 93% of men and 86% of women with protein intakes above the PRI (0.7g of protein/kg body weight/day

A Model Service-Learning Curriculum for Rainier Beach High School, Seattle, Washington

The purpose of this project was to develop a Service-Learning Curriculum for Rainier Beach High School, Seattle, Washington. To accomplish this purpose, a review ofrelated literature was conducted. Additionally, related information and materials from programs throughout the United States was obtained and analyzed, along with related materials from Seattle Public Schools