The Evidence-Based Education and Services Team is the research service
for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. We work together with
schools, departments, administrators, and scientific partners to facilitate
research activities within the board that enhance school effectiveness and
student achievement.
Please take a look around our website, feel free to contact
us if you require additional information.
Please visit our knowledge mobilization website.
OISE Web Tracker Study
E-BEST is participating in a study led by researchers at OISE looking at the value of website communication in education. We would really value your involvement in this project, as a visitor to our site. Please click the link below for more information. Thanks!!
Summer Program Surveys
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News
Strengthening the U.S./Canadian Alliance
Drs. Stan Kutcher and Kathy Short presented a paper related to school-based
mental health research in Canada at an international meeting held in Minneapolis
in November, "Strengthening the U.S./Canadian Alliance: A workshop to advance
school mental health". View their presentation on the Intercamhs website:
http://www.intercamhs.org
KM Lab @ HWDSB featured in "Amplifying Change":
The development of the KM Lab @ HWDSB was supported by an Expertise Mobilization
Award from the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental
Health at CHEO. The Lab is featured in the Centre's most recent Annual Report,
Amplifying
Change.
The School Board - University Research Exchange (SURE)-Inaugural
Conference
The School Board - University Research Exchange (SURE) held its first "Collaborative
Research Percolator" at the University of Western Ontario on October 30,
2009. SURE is comprised of Faculties of Education and school districts in
the London Region and is supported by the London Region MiSA Professional
Network Centre. The Percolator event provided a venue for presentation of
a number of collaborative research projects in the region, and facilitated
research-practitioner dialogue on pertinent issues in education. For an
overview of the event, and brief background on SURE, please see the attached
presentation by Drs. McMillan (University of Western Ontario) and Short
(E-BEST),
SURE Introduction. For more information about SURE, please visit our
website
Policy-Ready paper on School-Based Mental Health
In response to increasing concerns about student mental health, the Provincial
Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO commissioned
a policy-ready paper on this issue. Taking Mental Health to School: A policy-oriented
paper on school-based mental health in Ontario (Santor, Short, & Ferguson,
2009) and the companion paper, Scanning the Practice Landscape in School-Based
Mental Health in Ontario (Short, Ferguson, & Santor, 2009) are now available
on the Centre of Excellence website.
Summer 2009 issue of Leaders & Learners
The CHAT Team has had an opportunity to share their journey in the summer
2009 issue of Leaders & Learners, the official magazine of the Canadian
Association for School Administrators. This issue is focussed on child and
youth mental health, and features a discussion of critical issues and practice
examples from around the country. The CHAT article, Mental Health Promotion
in Schools: Using CHAT to Build Resilient Students, describes the enablers
and challenges involved in bringing an evidence-based universal mental health
promotion program to scale within a school district setting. View the whole series, "Make the Commitment to Children's
Mental Health".
Canadian Safe School Network conference
Dr. Kathy Short was invited to present a paper on Mental Health Promotion
in Schools at the recent Canadian Safe School Network conference in Toronto.
The theme of this event was: Behind the Mask: An Examination of Mental Health
in Schools. Kathy's presentation focused on issues in school-based mental
health, and highlighted two examples of mental health promotion programming
in action (CHAT and the School-Based Mental Health Learning Forum). You
can access the presentation here.
Presentations
- Web versions of some of our more recent presentations.
