The Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics will host Bethany Bray for the Emerging Scholars Series April 9-10. The inaugural two-day event includes a keynote presentation, statistics workshop and a meeting for graduate students and postdocs.
It began with a dream. One decade later, the collective vision of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools continues to improve lives and inform policy.
CYFS hosted a 10th anniversary breakfast Nov. 19 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and recognized partners in its mission to enhance the lives of children and families. The celebration opened with remarks from Ronnie Green, vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Marjorie Kostelnik, dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences; and Prem Paul, vice president for research and economic development.
The pioneers of modern temperament research, psychiatrists Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, identified nine traits present at birth that influenced children’s development. Half a century later, temperament research continues to play a key role in unlocking children’s behavioral diversity.
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools has released its annual report for the 2013 fiscal year, which spanned July 2013 through June 2014.
In addition to highlighting CYFS research and achievements from the last year, the report celebrates the center’s 10th anniversary with a timeline and infographic section outlining its most prominent accomplishments across the past decade.
CYFS director Susan Sheridan has authored a newly published practice guide designed to help teachers and school professionals engage parents in partnerships that support children’s learning.
Available from Pacific Northwest Publishers, “The Tough Kid: Teachers and Parents as Partners” takes its name from a family-school intervention approach developed and extensively researched by Sheridan.
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools has commemorated its 10th anniversary with the release of a website encapsulating the center’s history and influence across the past decade.
The website features a dynamic timeline of CYFS milestones, a section summarizing the center’s major strands of research, an infographic-filled overview of its impact, and a chapter outlining the collaborations that have made its research possible.
The Lincoln Journal Star illustrated the application and impacts of a CYFS family-school partnership model in a May 2 feature.
The story includes interviews with the mother and teacher of a third-grade student who participated in the Teachers and Parents as Partners intervention. Formerly known as Conjoint Behavioral Consultation, the intervention approach was developed by CYFS director Susan Sheridan and has been employed by urban, suburban and rural communities throughout Nebraska.
CYFS research associate professor Gina Kunz led a roundtable discussion of how family-school partnerships can bolster science literacy in rural communities as part of a Feb. 19 Big Idea Seminar co-sponsored by CYFS.
Kunz prefaced the discussion by reviewing the structure, goals and key findings underlying family-school partnerships. She also outlined several partnership-based strategies for enhancing children’s awareness and understanding of science.