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Wango, Geoffrey; Gwiyo, Leila Mkameli – Improving Schools, 2023
Death is inevitable and universal, and the corona virus disease has only further intensified a world of uncertainties as a result of frequent accidents, HIV/AIDS, cancer and natural disasters. Bereavement after any death is a potentially disruptive life event with consequences in physical and mental health, relationships and social functioning.…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Grief, Death, Teacher Role
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Mielityinen, Laura; Ellonen, Noora; Ikonen, Riikka; Paavilainen, Eija – Improving Schools, 2023
This article examines how maltreatment experienced by adolescents is related to school engagement. Maltreatment includes physical, mental, and sexual violence along with sexual harassment, neglect, and witnessing domestic violence. School engagement refers to the students' relationship to all activities in the school. It describes students'…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Learner Engagement
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Kearney, Christopher A.; Childs, Joshua – Improving Schools, 2023
School attendance and absenteeism are critical targets of educational policies and practices that often depend heavily on aggregated attendance/absenteeism data. School attendance/absenteeism data in aggregated form, in addition to having suspect quality and utility, minimizes individual student variation, distorts detailed and multilevel…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Attendance, Educational Policy, Causal Models
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Teichert, Laura; Piazza, Susan; Hinga, Jennifer – Improving Schools, 2023
The global pandemic has revealed a number of inequalities in education for students in Michigan, USA. Teachers were tasked with a sudden shift to online instruction as school closures across the state (and globe) forced education to operate in virtual classrooms. Given the continued need for online learning, it is necessary to examine the…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Digital Literacy, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge