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A Blueprint for Promoting Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: The Salmon Program

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A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs

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    1 Piaget’s research was creative but lacked research rigor. Like many other classic theorists, the population observed to create these theories were white, middle-class children, often raised in nuclear families. Therefore, it must be applied with caution to people of different cultures, ethnicity, socioeconomic classes, and physical locations.

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    What if a child repeatedly cannot complete his or her homework in 1 hour and 10 minutes with your positive constructive coaching. Something may be wrong? Speak to the parent. Ask to speak to the child's teacher. There may be a learning issue that needs to be identified and addressed to enable this child to succeed.

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    Interestingly, the research on the educational value of homework is questionable. There is no empirical support for its increasing student's mastery of a subject. Whereas this seemingly flies in the face of common sense, namely practice should make perfect, it may be that homework is so hastily completed and so onerous an activity that its learning value is negligible (Kohn, 2006).

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    Sociologists would call these norms and mores.

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    Incidentally, whereas the final outcome of this interaction was wrong, the start of it was right. The staff member informed the child that he was not complying with a program rule and explained why.

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    It is important to note that in your opinion should a child's behavior be so unacceptable that at any point in this process you can direct that child to the office. This is the rule of common sense!

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    For our purposes, when we use primary prevention, we are including health promotion as well.

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    Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam (2001) explores the reasons for the decline of social capital within the United States since World War II. Social capital encompasses civic involvement, group membership in a garden club, Lions, or historical society. It is participating in community events, knowledge of local happenings, and bowling on a team in place of solitary activities like browsing the Internet. Communities high in social capital are healthy communities and the people living in those communities are healthier also.

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    The actual value of a B. P. dollar is 10 cents.

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Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M., Gullotta, C.F., Messina, J.C. (2009). A Blueprint for Promoting Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: The Salmon Program. In: Gullotta, T., Bloom, M., Gullotta, C., Messina, J. (eds) A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs. Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79920-9_7

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