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Leslie M Babinski

Leslie M Babinski

Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
leslie.babinski@duke.edu
222 Rubenstein Hall, BOX_90545, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Teaching young multilingual learners: impacts of a professional learning programme on teachers’ practices and students’ language and literacy skills

Journal Article Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · January 1, 2025 Using a randomised control trial, we evaluated the impact of a year-long professional learning (PL) programme for teachers designed to support their multilingual learners’ language and literacy skills. The PL included evidence-based instructional practices ... Full text Cite

Professional Learning for ESL Teachers: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Impact on Instruction, Collaboration, and Cultural Wealth

Journal Article Education Sciences · July 1, 2024 Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the impact of a teacher professional learning (PL) program on English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers’ use of evidence-based instructional strategies for multilingual learners, collaboration with classro ... Full text Cite

Association between relative age at school and persistence of ADHD in prospective studies: an individual participant data meta-analysis.

Journal Article Lancet Psychiatry · December 2023 BACKGROUND: The youngest children in a school class are more likely than the oldest to be diagnosed with ADHD, but this relative age effect is less frequent in older than in younger school-grade children. However, no study has explored the association betw ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-Regulation Challenges and Supports in Middle Level Education: Health Education Teachers’ and School Counselors’ Views

Journal Article RMLE Online · January 1, 2023 Adolescents are in a dynamic period of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development. School-based interventions that focus on social-emotional learning, including the development of self-regulation skills, have been shown to have positive impacts on st ... Full text Cite

Mentoring and Developmentally Productive Environments to Support Talent Development

Chapter · January 1, 2021 Supportive relationships are an essential element in promoting positive child development. This chapter includes a description of implications of mentoring for talented children and youth. To be effective, a mentoring relationship must attend to the bond b ... Full text Cite

Impact of a Neuroscience-Based Health Education Course on High School Students' Health Knowledge, Beliefs, and Behaviors.

Journal Article J Adolesc Health · October 2018 PURPOSE: The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the potential of an innovative high school neuroscience-based health course for implementation feasibility and impact on student outcomes. METHODS: Thirteen teachers from two high schools participate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Young English Learners’ Language and Literacy Skills Through Teacher Professional Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal Article American Educational Research Journal · February 1, 2018 Using a randomized controlled trial, we tested a new teacher professional development program for increasing the language and literacy skills of young Latino English learners with 45 teachers and 105 students in 12 elementary schools. School-based teams ra ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of a Public Awareness Campaign to Prevent High School Dropout.

Journal Article The journal of primary prevention · August 2016 Many advocacy organizations devote time and resources to increasing community awareness and educating the public in an effort to gain support for their issue. One such effort, the Dropout Prevention Campaign by America's Promise Alliance, aimed to increase ... Full text Open Access Cite

Mediation of consultee's conceptual development in new teacher groups: Using questions to improve coherency

Journal Article Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation · January 1, 2003 This qualitative study applied methods used in discourse analysis to investigate how a consultant's questioning supported the goal of group consultation to empower beginning teachers to become effective problem solvers in their work environment. The focus ... Full text Cite

Safe Passages: Providing Online Support to Beginning Teachers

Journal Article Journal of Teacher Education · January 1, 2003 In this article, the authors describe the design, implementation, and outcomes of an online support community for beginning teachers, called the Lighthouse project. The goal was to investigate the use of online collaborative consultation in providing socia ... Full text Cite

The process of fostering consultee development during instructional consultation

Journal Article Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation · January 1, 2003 This investigation examines how the process of instructional consultation (IC) supports consultees' problem-solving and fosters change in how the consultees understand pertinent work problems. The setting was a mid-Atlantic elementary school's Instructiona ... Full text Cite

Educating Practitioners as Consultants: Development and Implementation of the Instructional Consultation Team Consortium

Journal Article Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation · January 1, 2002 The continuing education of current practitioners as consultants is an area requiring both practical consideration and further research. The Instructional Consultation Team (IC-Team) Consortium represents a comprehensive, statewide effort to systematically ... Full text Cite

A comparison of self-report of criminal involvement and official arrest records

Journal Article Aggressive Behavior · December 1, 2001 Self-reports of arrests and official arrest records were compared for 250 male and 80 female participants in the ongoing Hyperactivity Follow-Up Study of Young Adults at University of California at Berkeley. For males, kappa coefficients indicated good sta ... Full text Cite

The Roles of Facilitators and Peers in an Online Support Community for First-Year Teachers

Journal Article Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation · January 1, 2001 The first year of teaching can be especially difficult for novice teachers. Teachers often have little opportunity to meaningfully reflect on their practice with others who are experiencing similar challenges. The Lighthouse Project used a telecommunicatio ... Full text Cite

Breaking through isolation with new teacher groups

Journal Article Educational Leadership · May 1, 1999 Learning to listen thoughtfully and deeply is an important part of becoming a teacher. New Teacher Groups give beginning practitioners a forum for being listened to as well. ... Cite

Childhood conduct problems, hyperactivity-impulsivity, and inattention as predictors of adult criminal activity.

Journal Article Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · March 1999 This study reconsiders the relationship of childhood Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and childhood conduct problems with adult criminal activity by clarifying the role of the cardinal behaviors associated with the DSM-IV ADHD subtypes (inat ... Full text Cite

Supporting new teachers through consultee-centered group consultation

Journal Article Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation · January 1, 1998 New teachers are often unprepared for the emotional, physical, social, and psychological demands of teaching. Traditional staff development models may not be well suited to meet the needs of these teachers. However, school psychologists and counselors are ... Full text Cite

Tracking procedures and attrition containment in a long-term follow-up of a community-based ADHD sample.

Journal Article Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · September 1996 Strategies are discussed for locating and interviewing a community-based sample of 492 adults, approximately half of whom were diagnosed in 1974 with ADHD. Completion rates, reasons for attrition, and amount of time and intensity of effort associated with ... Full text Cite

Factors associated with school psychologists' perceptions of campus violence

Journal Article Psychology in the Schools · January 1, 1996 Recent concern about school violence has increased demands on school psychologists to respond to safety concerns on their school campuses. In this study, 123 school psychologists responded to a survey about their perceptions, experiences, and readiness to ... Full text Cite