Valerie B Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie B Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie B |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO V B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4493-8829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Balancing the experiential and the theoretical”
Universities can play an important role in delivering high-quality social and emotional learning (SEL) through continuous professional development (CPD). Insufficient attention has been paid, however, to the incorporation of practitioners (as instructors) and in-service educators (as students) into graduate-level credit-bearing coursework at universities. In Fall 2023, a course was created for PK-12 in-service educators and taught by university-a…
To Whom Do These Results Apply? Assessing Evidence for the Generalizability of Social and Emotional Learning Programs Among Specific Racial and Ethnic Groups
Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are widely used, yet concerns have arisen about whether the evidence for these programs extends to students of color (SOC). The data in this study include published articles (n = 158) of trials (n = 97) of SEL interventions (n = 32) from the CASEL SELect list of evidence-based SEL programs. Using racial frames common in intervention research, we examined the extent of SOC representation in SEL interven…
Educational leaders' reports of conditions for supporting SEL implementation
Well‐implemented social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are associated with positive student outcomes. Through CalHOPE, County Office of Education (COE) leaders are providing implementation support to districts and schools seeking to improve SEL delivery statewide. CalHOPE uses the SHIFT model to guide the regional implementation of systemic and equity‐oriented SEL. This study assesses the conceptually driven conditions among COEs for provi…
The Role of Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies on Teacher Burnout
Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies (CRSPs) are foundational for transforming students’ learning environments, yet little is known about their impact on teachers. Although teachers generally recognize the need for CRSPs, limited resources and competing demands place teachers at risk for burnout. We investigated CRSPs as a predictor of burnout, and the influence of demographic moderators among California in-service educators. Findings de…
Reliability and Construct Validity of a Self-Report Measure of SEL Capacities Among K-12 Educational Leaders
Social and emotional learning (SEL) practices in schools endeavor to support wellbeing and emotional intelligence in young people; they work best when implemented well. Educational leaders in K-12 settings need to have capacities to provide SEL implementation support. Surveying SEL implementation capacity can identify specific strengths and areas for improvement and monitor progress. The current study assesses the validity and reliability of a 15…
Supporting the implementation of social and emotional learning
CalHOPE Student Support was enacted as an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020. In an attempt to minimize trauma, center equity, and build the resilience of California's young people, CalHOPE offers statewide funding and support to County Offices of Education (COEs), such that COEs can provide implementation support to augment the delivery of systemic Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in their regions. Each p…
Hear, act, connect, support
School climate surveys are commonly used to solicit youth perspectives about their experiences in schools. However, to move climate surveys from solicitation towards a more youth‐centered, partnered practice for school improvement, guidance is needed from the youth themselves about how and in what ways they hope adults respond to their survey responses. In the present study, we analyzed data from four focus groups conducted with middle school and…
“I would add”
Purpose: Specific social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have been found to promote a myriad of positive outcomes, but definitions of the broader concept of SEL are varied in its practice and scholarly usage. It is unclear whether recent conceptual expansions of SEL to include Systemic and Transformative approaches shape the understanding of SEL among educational leaders. Communities of Practice (CPs) may serve as a dynamic knowledge source…
Promoting the use of research evidence from websites
This study establishes the potential of microsurveys for measuring URE from intermediary websites, achieving response rates understood to yield reliable estimates for informing the promotion of evidence in practice. Future research should explore additional configurations to further optimise response rate, integrate microsurveys with observational and behavioural data to assess validity, and study integrating microsurvey feedback into organisatio…
I Always Want to Learn More”
Centring Parent Voice
Despite the effectiveness of evidence‐based parenting programmes in improving parenting skills, reducing child maltreatment and promoting children's emotional and cognitive development, their impact is hindered by persistently low participation rates. At the same time, parents are increasingly turning online for parenting content. Analysing this content can offer insights into parents' preferences for parenting information and illuminate ways to …
Parent information seeking and sharing
Extant research shows that evidence-based parenting programs can improve parents’ knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, leading to reduced child abuse and neglect, and promoting children’s emotional, social, and cognitive competencies. However, the impact of these programs is limited by low participation rates. Despite this, parents are actively engaging with online parenting content. Analyzing online behavior to understand parents’ information n…
Gender, racial-ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in the development of social-emotional competence among elementary school students
Social-emotional competence (SEC) has been demonstrated to be a crucial factor for student mental health and is malleable through the high-quality implementation of effective school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. SEL is now widely practiced in the United States as a Tier 1 strategy for the entire student body, yet it remains unclear whether disparities exist in the development of SEC across socio-culturally classified subgrou…
University’s absorptive capacity for collaborative research
The study and the practice of collaborative research between university researchers and community entities of various types have generally focused on the organizational conditions that facilitate community partners to make use of research knowledge. In this article, we propose a conceptual innovation that absorptive capacity – the ability to identify helpful new information and to absorb and apply it in new ways – is important not only for commun…
Understanding memorandums of Understanding
Collaboration agreements are used in community-engaged scholarship (CES). However, an exploration of collaboration agreements, their components, and the tensions embedded in their usage is missing from the literature. In this paper, we explore Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) based on an integration of the literature and our collective experiences. We recognize that neither the creation process nor the parts of collaboration agreements are uni…
Classifying Changes to Preventive Interventions
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Social Work Researchers
Objective: To achieve the grand challenge goal of unleashing the power of prevention, we must determine how and under what conditions an intervention leads to desired outcomes. These questions remain largely unknown partly due to analytical challenges involving testing mediation and moderation hypotheses with multiple dependent variables in nested data. This paper introduces multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) and demonstrates multilev…
Efficient Implementation Monitoring in Routine Prevention Practice
Objective: Monitoring the implementation of preventive interventions in schools is challenging for educators and school social workers. This study sought to verify the implementation–outcome relationship; determine whether implementer characteristics predict participation in implementation-monitoring protocols; and suggest the number of (a) implementers requiring monitoring, (b) planned observations per implementer, and (c) items rated within eac…
Seven Action Steps to Unleash the Power of Prevention
For this special issue, the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research solicited papers describing progress and advancements relative to the goals and 7 action steps of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention. We received papers describing intervention research, implementation research, and methodological innovations that furt…
Female Sterilization and Poor Mental Health
Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors
Greater emphasis on strengthening protective factors during high school might be needed to sustain broad effects of CTC on protective factors observed during middle school
Transformando las rutinas organizacionales en los programas de doctorado
En este artículo se describe el esfuerzo para infundir un marco de justicia social en un programa doctoral de trabajo social dentro de una universidad prominente de investigación de los Estados Unidos. El proyecto de investigación “Justicia Social en la Educación Doctoral” (SJDE) identificó los Objetivos de Aprendizaje de la Justicia Social (SJLOs) en una serie de categorías de la investigación científica, como la enseñanza y el servicio. Los est…
Relating Coalition Capacity to the Adoption of Science‐Based Prevention in Communities
Coalition‐based efforts that use a science‐based approach to prevention can improve the wellbeing of community youth. This study measured several coalition capacities that are hypothesized to facilitate the adoption of a science‐based approach to prevention in communities. Using data from 12 coalitions participating in a community‐randomized trial of the prevention strategy Communities That Care (CTC), this paper describes select measurement prop…
Teaching Note—Infusing Social Justice Into Doctoral Programs of Social Welfare
This article describes an effort to further infuse social justice education into doctoral programs in social welfare. It articulates the rationale and tactical approaches for aligning mission statements with the operational realities of university contexts. Within 1 school of social work, doctoral students with diverse orientations to social justice came together to articulate a vision for social justice education that expanded the educational co…
Variation in the Effect of Communities That Care on Community Adoption of a Scientific Approach to Prevention
Tested and effective approaches are available to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral problems in youth, but such approaches are underused. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based strategy that aims to increase the use of tested and effective programs by combining the use of scientific evidence and stakeholder consensus to support the community adoption of a scientific approach to preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral problem…
Disseminating Effective Community Prevention Practices
In the United States about 17% of adolescents meet diagnostic criteria for mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Six million young people receive treatment services annually for mental, emotional, or behavioral problems. These problems affect 1 in 5 families and cost $247 million annually (O'Connell, Boat, & Warner, 2009). Some strategies for preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in young people have been developed, tested…
Relating Coalition Capacity to the Adoption of Science‐Based Prevention in Communities
Coalition‐based efforts that use a science‐based approach to prevention can improve the wellbeing of community youth. This study measured several coalition capacities that are hypothesized to facilitate the adoption of a science‐based approach to prevention in communities. Using data from 12 coalitions participating in a community‐randomized trial of the prevention strategy Communities That Care (CTC), this paper describes select measurement prop…
Variation in the Effect of Communities That Care on Community Adoption of a Scientific Approach to Prevention
Tested and effective approaches are available to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral problems in youth, but such approaches are underused. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based strategy that aims to increase the use of tested and effective programs by combining the use of scientific evidence and stakeholder consensus to support the community adoption of a scientific approach to preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral problem…
Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors
Greater emphasis on strengthening protective factors during high school might be needed to sustain broad effects of CTC on protective factors observed during middle school
Understanding memorandums of Understanding
Collaboration agreements are used in community-engaged scholarship (CES). However, an exploration of collaboration agreements, their components, and the tensions embedded in their usage is missing from the literature. In this paper, we explore Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) based on an integration of the literature and our collective experiences. We recognize that neither the creation process nor the parts of collaboration agreements are uni…
Educational leaders' reports of conditions for supporting SEL implementation
Well‐implemented social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are associated with positive student outcomes. Through CalHOPE, County Office of Education (COE) leaders are providing implementation support to districts and schools seeking to improve SEL delivery statewide. CalHOPE uses the SHIFT model to guide the regional implementation of systemic and equity‐oriented SEL. This study assesses the conceptually driven conditions among COEs for provi…
I Always Want to Learn More”
Parent information seeking and sharing
Extant research shows that evidence-based parenting programs can improve parents’ knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, leading to reduced child abuse and neglect, and promoting children’s emotional, social, and cognitive competencies. However, the impact of these programs is limited by low participation rates. Despite this, parents are actively engaging with online parenting content. Analyzing online behavior to understand parents’ information n…
University’s absorptive capacity for collaborative research
The study and the practice of collaborative research between university researchers and community entities of various types have generally focused on the organizational conditions that facilitate community partners to make use of research knowledge. In this article, we propose a conceptual innovation that absorptive capacity – the ability to identify helpful new information and to absorb and apply it in new ways – is important not only for commun…
Efficient Implementation Monitoring in Routine Prevention Practice
Objective: Monitoring the implementation of preventive interventions in schools is challenging for educators and school social workers. This study sought to verify the implementation–outcome relationship; determine whether implementer characteristics predict participation in implementation-monitoring protocols; and suggest the number of (a) implementers requiring monitoring, (b) planned observations per implementer, and (c) items rated within eac…
Transformando las rutinas organizacionales en los programas de doctorado
En este artículo se describe el esfuerzo para infundir un marco de justicia social en un programa doctoral de trabajo social dentro de una universidad prominente de investigación de los Estados Unidos. El proyecto de investigación “Justicia Social en la Educación Doctoral” (SJDE) identificó los Objetivos de Aprendizaje de la Justicia Social (SJLOs) en una serie de categorías de la investigación científica, como la enseñanza y el servicio. Los est…
Disseminating Effective Community Prevention Practices
In the United States about 17% of adolescents meet diagnostic criteria for mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Six million young people receive treatment services annually for mental, emotional, or behavioral problems. These problems affect 1 in 5 families and cost $247 million annually (O'Connell, Boat, & Warner, 2009). Some strategies for preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in young people have been developed, tested…
Variation in the Effect of Communities That Care on Community Adoption of a Scientific Approach to Prevention
Tested and effective approaches are available to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral problems in youth, but such approaches are underused. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based strategy that aims to increase the use of tested and effective programs by combining the use of scientific evidence and stakeholder consensus to support the community adoption of a scientific approach to preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral problem…
Teaching Note—Infusing Social Justice Into Doctoral Programs of Social Welfare
This article describes an effort to further infuse social justice education into doctoral programs in social welfare. It articulates the rationale and tactical approaches for aligning mission statements with the operational realities of university contexts. Within 1 school of social work, doctoral students with diverse orientations to social justice came together to articulate a vision for social justice education that expanded the educational co…
Female Sterilization and Poor Mental Health
Assessing Sustained Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Protective Factors
Greater emphasis on strengthening protective factors during high school might be needed to sustain broad effects of CTC on protective factors observed during middle school
Transformando las rutinas organizacionales en los programas de doctorado
En este artículo se describe el esfuerzo para infundir un marco de justicia social en un programa doctoral de trabajo social dentro de una universidad prominente de investigación de los Estados Unidos. El proyecto de investigación “Justicia Social en la Educación Doctoral” (SJDE) identificó los Objetivos de Aprendizaje de la Justicia Social (SJLOs) en una serie de categorías de la investigación científica, como la enseñanza y el servicio. Los est…
Relating Coalition Capacity to the Adoption of Science‐Based Prevention in Communities
Coalition‐based efforts that use a science‐based approach to prevention can improve the wellbeing of community youth. This study measured several coalition capacities that are hypothesized to facilitate the adoption of a science‐based approach to prevention in communities. Using data from 12 coalitions participating in a community‐randomized trial of the prevention strategy Communities That Care (CTC), this paper describes select measurement prop…
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Social Work Researchers
Objective: To achieve the grand challenge goal of unleashing the power of prevention, we must determine how and under what conditions an intervention leads to desired outcomes. These questions remain largely unknown partly due to analytical challenges involving testing mediation and moderation hypotheses with multiple dependent variables in nested data. This paper introduces multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) and demonstrates multilev…
Efficient Implementation Monitoring in Routine Prevention Practice
Objective: Monitoring the implementation of preventive interventions in schools is challenging for educators and school social workers. This study sought to verify the implementation–outcome relationship; determine whether implementer characteristics predict participation in implementation-monitoring protocols; and suggest the number of (a) implementers requiring monitoring, (b) planned observations per implementer, and (c) items rated within eac…
Seven Action Steps to Unleash the Power of Prevention
For this special issue, the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research solicited papers describing progress and advancements relative to the goals and 7 action steps of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention. We received papers describing intervention research, implementation research, and methodological innovations that furt…
Classifying Changes to Preventive Interventions
University’s absorptive capacity for collaborative research
The study and the practice of collaborative research between university researchers and community entities of various types have generally focused on the organizational conditions that facilitate community partners to make use of research knowledge. In this article, we propose a conceptual innovation that absorptive capacity – the ability to identify helpful new information and to absorb and apply it in new ways – is important not only for commun…
Understanding memorandums of Understanding
Collaboration agreements are used in community-engaged scholarship (CES). However, an exploration of collaboration agreements, their components, and the tensions embedded in their usage is missing from the literature. In this paper, we explore Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) based on an integration of the literature and our collective experiences. We recognize that neither the creation process nor the parts of collaboration agreements are uni…
Gender, racial-ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in the development of social-emotional competence among elementary school students
Social-emotional competence (SEC) has been demonstrated to be a crucial factor for student mental health and is malleable through the high-quality implementation of effective school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. SEL is now widely practiced in the United States as a Tier 1 strategy for the entire student body, yet it remains unclear whether disparities exist in the development of SEC across socio-culturally classified subgrou…
Reliability and Construct Validity of a Self-Report Measure of SEL Capacities Among K-12 Educational Leaders
Social and emotional learning (SEL) practices in schools endeavor to support wellbeing and emotional intelligence in young people; they work best when implemented well. Educational leaders in K-12 settings need to have capacities to provide SEL implementation support. Surveying SEL implementation capacity can identify specific strengths and areas for improvement and monitor progress. The current study assesses the validity and reliability of a 15…
Supporting the implementation of social and emotional learning
CalHOPE Student Support was enacted as an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020. In an attempt to minimize trauma, center equity, and build the resilience of California's young people, CalHOPE offers statewide funding and support to County Offices of Education (COEs), such that COEs can provide implementation support to augment the delivery of systemic Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in their regions. Each p…
Hear, act, connect, support
School climate surveys are commonly used to solicit youth perspectives about their experiences in schools. However, to move climate surveys from solicitation towards a more youth‐centered, partnered practice for school improvement, guidance is needed from the youth themselves about how and in what ways they hope adults respond to their survey responses. In the present study, we analyzed data from four focus groups conducted with middle school and…
“I would add”
Purpose: Specific social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have been found to promote a myriad of positive outcomes, but definitions of the broader concept of SEL are varied in its practice and scholarly usage. It is unclear whether recent conceptual expansions of SEL to include Systemic and Transformative approaches shape the understanding of SEL among educational leaders. Communities of Practice (CPs) may serve as a dynamic knowledge source…
Promoting the use of research evidence from websites
This study establishes the potential of microsurveys for measuring URE from intermediary websites, achieving response rates understood to yield reliable estimates for informing the promotion of evidence in practice. Future research should explore additional configurations to further optimise response rate, integrate microsurveys with observational and behavioural data to assess validity, and study integrating microsurvey feedback into organisatio…
I Always Want to Learn More”
Centring Parent Voice
Despite the effectiveness of evidence‐based parenting programmes in improving parenting skills, reducing child maltreatment and promoting children's emotional and cognitive development, their impact is hindered by persistently low participation rates. At the same time, parents are increasingly turning online for parenting content. Analysing this content can offer insights into parents' preferences for parenting information and illuminate ways to …
Parent information seeking and sharing
Extant research shows that evidence-based parenting programs can improve parents’ knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, leading to reduced child abuse and neglect, and promoting children’s emotional, social, and cognitive competencies. However, the impact of these programs is limited by low participation rates. Despite this, parents are actively engaging with online parenting content. Analyzing online behavior to understand parents’ information n…
“Balancing the experiential and the theoretical”
Universities can play an important role in delivering high-quality social and emotional learning (SEL) through continuous professional development (CPD). Insufficient attention has been paid, however, to the incorporation of practitioners (as instructors) and in-service educators (as students) into graduate-level credit-bearing coursework at universities. In Fall 2023, a course was created for PK-12 in-service educators and taught by university-a…
To Whom Do These Results Apply? Assessing Evidence for the Generalizability of Social and Emotional Learning Programs Among Specific Racial and Ethnic Groups
Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are widely used, yet concerns have arisen about whether the evidence for these programs extends to students of color (SOC). The data in this study include published articles (n = 158) of trials (n = 97) of SEL interventions (n = 32) from the CASEL SELect list of evidence-based SEL programs. Using racial frames common in intervention research, we examined the extent of SOC representation in SEL interven…
Educational leaders' reports of conditions for supporting SEL implementation
Well‐implemented social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are associated with positive student outcomes. Through CalHOPE, County Office of Education (COE) leaders are providing implementation support to districts and schools seeking to improve SEL delivery statewide. CalHOPE uses the SHIFT model to guide the regional implementation of systemic and equity‐oriented SEL. This study assesses the conceptually driven conditions among COEs for provi…
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)