Julia Jackson-Newsom

TL;DR: Using a randomized controlled trial, the authors examined whether expert coaching improves the effectiveness of the All Stars prevention curriculum and found no effects on students' alcohol or marijuana use or on any of several variables thought to mediate curriculum effects.

TL;DR: Curriculum developers and trainers should enhance their understanding of how prevention curricula are taught under real world conditions, help teachers to reinforce key curriculum concepts, and consider modifying those curricular sections that teachers are adapting with greatest frequency.

TL;DR: An observation measure designed to capture teachers’ use of interactive teaching skills within the delivery of the All Stars substance use prevention program predicted decreases in student marijuana use and positively related to student idealism and normative beliefs.

TL;DR: Study findings suggest the need for ongoing training and technical assistance, as well as “just in time” messages delivered electronically; but it is also possible that some prevention curricula may impose unrealistic expectations or burdens on teachers’ abilities and classroom time.

TL;DR: Topics covered by coaches assisting teachers implementing a research-based drug prevention program are described and how coaching affected student outcomes are explored, one of a very few studies that explores how coaching impacts outcomes in substance abuse prevention.