Education

Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP) Research and Evaluation-Year 4

The CLLIP Research and Evaluation Project is designed to assess the impact of a literacy intervention for low-income poor performing school districts in the state of Ohio. Longitudinal data consisting of standardized literacy assessments, and surveys from students (preschool through 6th grade), parents, and teachers are analyzed and evaluated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the CLLIP intervention.


Community Dialogue and Needs Assessment for Addressing Traumatic Stress among Resettled Refugee ...
Assessing Refugee Youth Mental Health in NH

The project involves a needs assessment of child and adolescent refugee mental health services in New Hampshire and utilizes community dialogue strategies for integrating youth, family, provider, school and community knowledge and expertise towards addressing refugee mental health needs especially as it relates to trauma and in the context of resettlement.


Developing Direct Connections on Bullying and Harassment to Curriculum Frameworks and Performance ..
Linking Bullyproof to Curriculum Frameworks and Performance Standards: Nationwide

This project led to the development a teacher's manual that links curriculum on bullying and harassment directly to national education standards, based on Bullyproof curriculum.


Development and Evaluation of Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs
Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs in Middle Schools

This study is designed to help increase the capacity of programs to prevent sexual violence and harassment. The long-term goal/objective of this study is to help prevent intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and sexual harassment by employing the most rigorous methods to evaluate strategies for altering the violence-supportive attitudes and norms of youth.


Empathy Project
Teaching Preschoolers Empathy

One of the major developmental tasks of preschoolers is to develop empathy; this project researches and designs curriculum in order better understand and cultivate empathy at a young and critical age.


Fairer Science
Gender and Science

This project seeks to help scientific researchers better communicate their findings on gender as it relates to science, technology, engineering and math to key audiences: media, advocates, policy makers, public.


Formative Evaluation of the Get Real Middle School Sexual Education Curriculum

This project is a multi-faceted engagement with Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts to conduct a formative assessment of the Get Real middle school sexual education curriculum. The project includes developing a student assessment tool; technical assistance and evaluation of the instructions for teachers and the teacher training program; technical assistance in the development of a high school sexual education curriculum, and; consultation with PPLM stakeholders to define the goals of an impact evaluation.


Gender Equity in Model Sites (GEMS)
Gender Equity in Schools

This project was centered around the question of research, funding, and results: was it possible to implement gender equity in a school over just three years?


Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education
Inclusive Education: K-12/Higher Ed

Peggy McIntosh offers presentations, workshops, and consulting on: white privilege and privilege systems in general, diversifying organizational thinking, gender-fair and multicultural curricula, diversifying teaching methods, and feelings of fraudulence.


Global Issues Teaching Guide
Teaching Global Issues: Junior & High Schools
international work

  This teaching guide was developed after scholars attended the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and includes discussion of human rights, ethnic conflict, and biodiversity.


Health and Safety in Massachusetts Early Care and Education Programs

This project prepared a report is to describe the prevalent health practices and concerns in early care and education programs in Massachusetts, as part of a larger project of the Schott Fellowship in Early Care and Education.


Hear Our Voices: Evaluation Project
Girls in Computer Clubhouses

This project was an evaluation of an all-girls program that provides technology resources, female mentors, and a learning environment to improve girls' attitudes and understanding of computers.


Influence of Early Care and Education on Children's Outcomes and Family Functioning: ...
An Ecological Model: ECE, Children's Outcomes and Family Functioning

This study examines the varying quality of child care in Massachusetts and across the nation, and its effect on children's performance and family functioning.


Massachusetts Early Care and Education and School Readiness Study
Early Care and Education and School Readiness: Massachusetts

Researchers focus on aspects of school readiness, including social and language development, along with other data such as hours in care, so as to better understand the ways in which a child's growth is influenced by situational factors. 


Massachusetts Early Care and Education Studies
Assessment of Early Care and Education in Massachusetts

This group of inter-related research projects seeks to understand the state of early care and education in Massachusetts and make recommendations for quality outcomes.


Middle School Bullying & Sexual Violence: Measurement Issues & Etiological Models

This research project addresses a critical issue by examining the overlap of bullying perpetration/victimization and sexual violence in order to inform sexual violence prevention in US schools.


Open Circle
Social Emotional Learning: K-5th Grade

Open Circle works with school communities to help children become ethical people, contributing citizens and successful learners.


Oral Storytelling in Math: Evaluation Project
Learning Math through Storytelling

This was an evaluation of materials/programs to help educators teach spatial relations and geometry through the use of storytelling, and its benefits for girls and boys.


Raising Confident and Competent Girls: How Schools Can Support Girls
Raising Confident and Competent Girls

This project examined the lives of middle-school aged girls from various social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Researchers focused on issues such as self-confidence, bridging the home-school culture gap, and student and teacher resources.


SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum
Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)

international work The SEED Project, a staff development equity project for educators, prepares teachers to lead their own year-long seminars in public and private schools on making curricula, teaching methods, and school climates more gender-fair, multicultural, and international.


Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence in Schools: A Research and Development Project Linking Schools
Title IX, Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence in Schools

This project created a collaborative intervention model and curriculum for schools and community-based organizations in order to understand and counter rising rates of rape, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in school environments.


Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Girls' Ongoing Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (SISTEM)

While girls do well in science and math courses in middle school, they are less likely to enroll in higher-level STEM courses in high school, thus few will choose these subjects for a college major, and even fewer will complete such a major or go on to pursue a STEM career. The increased knowledge generated by this study will inform ways to increase the participation of girls and other under-represented groups (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities, low-income youth) in sustained STEM study and employment.


Teasing and Bullying
Addressing Teasing and Bullying in Schools

This project works to examine and counteract the effects of the culture of bullying on children and youth by raising awareness about bullying and by exploring the links between bullying, other forms of aggression, and violence through a combination of research, action, and advocacy.


WEEA: Review Project
Gender Equity in Educational Materials

This long-term project was designed to assess gender equity educational materials which were created in relation to the development of Title IX.


Women in Development IQC: Gender Matters
School-related Gender Violence in Developing Countries
international work

  Through this project, a review was developed to identify, annotate, and synthesize research studies and projects/interventions addressing primary and secondary school-related gender-based violence in developing countries. The review was conducted in 2003 and again in 2005/2006.


Women in Engineering: Evaluation Project
Evaluating Women in Engineering

This was an evaluation of a program that aimed to increase the number of middle school girls interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.


Zero Tolerance
Sexual Harassment Policies: Zero Tolerance

Through this project, researchers examined experiences of sexual harassment in schools even when zero-tolerance policies may exist.