Browsing by Author "Hagen, Elizabeth"

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    Comparing Frameworks
    (University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, 2013) Hagen, Elizabeth
    This peer-reviewed series of issue briefs is designed to help people understand, connect and champion social and emotional learning in a variety of settings and from a variety of perspectives.
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    Determinants of school completion: Student perceptions of success at an experiential learning high school
    (2015-10) Hagen, Elizabeth
    Although high schools in the United States use a wide range of interventions to increase school completion, a large number of students still drop out each year. Research has shown that, to be effective, interventions must facilitate engagement in learning and connectedness to school. The scale of the dropout crisis suggests that there is a significant population of students who may benefit from interventions that are more comprehensive than supplemental supports in a traditional school environment. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to develop an understanding of the experience of successful students at an experiential high school in order to examine experiential education as a whole school approach to facilitating school completion. The fourteen participants were students who enrolled at an experiential high school after becoming disengaged at other schools. According to these students, the structures of an experiential high school—notably, projects, expeditions, advising, and a close-knit community—created a school experience of meaningful academic learning and strong relationships that made them feel valued as individuals. Projects and expeditions provided the context for relevant and meaningful learning experiences and created opportunities for relationships to emerge and strengthen. Students associated feelings of being accepted, challenged, and supported with the format of the school, including membership in a close-knit community and the centrality of the advisory relationship. For participants in this study, these experiences were part of a progression that began when students recognized they wanted to leave previous schools and ended when students reflected back on successes as they approached graduation.
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    Implications for Enhancing Children’s Mental Health
    (University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, 2014-07) Michaels, Cari; Hagen, Elizabeth
    This peer-reviewed series of issue briefs is designed to help people understand, connect and champion social and emotional learning in a variety of settings and from a variety of perspectives.
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    Moving Social and Emotional Learning from Research to Action
    (University of Minnesota Extension, 2013-10) Herman, Margo; Walker, Kate; Blyth, Dale; Hagen, Elizabeth
    Bridging the educational achievement gap is one of Extension’s identified issue areas. This poster presents a three-year initiative dedicated to developing programming that enhances understanding of social and emotional learning factors and their contribution to closing the achievement and opportunity gaps. The Extension Center for Youth Development is working with the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI), Extension Center for Family Development, the Department of Family Social Science, and Youthprise (a non-profit intermediary and funder) on this issue. This poster will explore social and emotional learning frameworks, share research on the importance of these skills, delineate strategies and delivery methods (e.g., public symposia, regional forums, online webinars, issue briefs) to move those strategies into programming. Also addressed are the internal and external partnerships that enhance the visibility and value of social and emotional factors in addressing educational disparities.
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    Resources for Measuring Social and Emotional Learning
    (University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, 2014-05) Hagen, Elizabeth
    This peer-reviewed series of issue briefs is designed to help people understand, connect and champion social and emotional learning in a variety of settings and from a variety of perspectives.
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    Skills for Navigating Life’s Challenges
    (University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, 2013-11) Hagen, Elizabeth
    This peer-reviewed series of issue briefs is designed to help people understand, connect and champion social and emotional learning in a variety of settings and from a variety of perspectives.