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Welcome to
Quaglia Institute for
Student Aspirations
QISA is an independent, nonprofit organization
dedicated to promoting and putting into
practice the conditions that foster student
aspirations in schools and learning
communities around the world.
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Newsletter
"Aspirations in Action"
Highlights for March...
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Research Round Up: Research supporting the benefit of fostering Leadership & Responsibility in schools. |
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Articles written by students at St. Peter-Marian Junior High School in Worcester, MA. |
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Aspirations Academy
Aspirations Academy is an online community of educators who promote student aspirations through fostering of the 8 Conditions. Members share best practices, and participate in online discussions about student aspirations. |
Aspirations
Research Center
The Aspirations Research Center is a division of QISA focused on collection, analysis and dissemination of data about the 8 Conditions and related content. Data gathered on student and teacher perspectives for each Condition allow educators and researchers to look closely at the 8 Conditions framework at the school, district, state and national level. |
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Question of the Week
In response to the epidemic of childhood obesity in our country, who should be responsible for ensuring that school age children participate in daily physical activities?
Who should have input regarding teacher evaluations in the decision to retain or terminate employment?
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| school district administrators |
0% |
| school board members |
0% |
| principals |
25% |
| parents |
0% |
| students |
13% |
| combination of the above |
63% |
Seventy percent (70%) of students agree that teachers recognize students who are kind and helpful.
How important do you think it is for people to be recognized when they are good citizens?
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Latest News
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QISA's Aspirations Research Center (ARC) is completing a study on gender differences, analyzing male and female perceptions of the factors that influence their aspirations. ARC's findings will be posted in the Aspirations Brief section of our website.
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Dr. Michael Corso, Chief Academic Officer, blogs regularly about timely educational issues. His Aspirations blog can be read at blog@qisa.org. |
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The Pearson Foundation recently introduced The Million Voice Project, a public interest initiative that is gathering and analyzing the perceptions of one million students in grades 6-12. This student voice project will be the largest single initiative to document and analyze student engagement and to highlight the related variations in academic performance in American schools. For more information and to register your school/district, visit millionvoice.org.
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QISA president and founder Dr. Russell Quaglia will be serving as a visiting scholar at both Stanford University and the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
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The Center for Social and Emotional Education's 13th Annual Summer Institute, from July 6-8, will be held at Fordham University in New York City. The event, Creating the Foundation for Comprehensive School Climate Reform, will focus on promoting safe, healthy, engaged, and democratic K-12 school communities and will include a special keynote address by Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Education, Office of Safe & Drug-Free Schools. To learn more about this exciting opportunity visit schoolclimate.org.
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