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This section of the web site lists the currently active projects or "calls for papers/projects" underway in this wiki-based web site. The page lists the active calls for reviewers, writers, contributors and sponsors as well as those that have been completed. Sub-pages from this one list describe those current calls/projects in more detail.

This page also briefly describes the roles of these participants in this knowledge exchange program.

  • Reviewers: When a first draft of a summary or series of summaries has been prepared, ISHN will issue a call for reviewers. Reviewers can either use the wiki-based tools to comment on the draft or to edit the draft. All visitors to this web site can comment on and edit the summaries anonymously, but it is preferred that reviewers sign up with the social networking system (like other networking sites, there is no charge or spam) and then "join": this wiki-based web site and create a brief profile. This will enable other visitors and readers to recognize your contributions to the summaries.
  • Contributors: Usually there will be 3-4 active contributors to a summary or series of summaries. They are expected to help to develop the rough drafts by identifying relevant sources, help to prepare the first draft, and participate in the completion of the "first edition" of the summary. They also retain the right to publish or adapt the content for outher publications, subject to agreement with the lead writer/editor and co-contributors.
  • Writers: A writer is the person or persons who prepares the draft summaries prepared as part of this knowledge exchange program. This person has the right to recruit and approve contributors and will do the writing or assign the writing of the summaries in cooperation with ISHN staff. The writers retain all rights to publish or adapt the summary for publishing in journals or on other web sites. Their role will be time-limited (as they determine) but will likely mean a period of 3-5 months of reviewing or preparing draft texts.
  • Editors/Mentors: An editor/mentor will guide the development of a topic or series of topics. They will be recognized leaders on the topics under their guidance. They will assist ISHN in recruiting writers and help to frame the overall content for the topic. (ISHN staff will do the copy editing for grammar, clarity and formatting).
  • Senior Editors: A senior editor guides the development of a group of topics or topic area within this encyclopedia and knowledge exchange program. This will include shaping the call for editors, writers and contributors and overseeing the approach and linkages among the topics as well as consulting, where needed, with topoc editors.
  • Sponsors: University-based centres, faculty members and their classes, non-governmental organizations, research agencies, government ministries and others are being requested to sponsor a series of summaries on specific topics or series of topics that is of interest to them. Their sponsorship can be either in-kind (assigning writers/contributors of their choosing) or through small grants to ISHN or other partners in this knowledge exchange program. Sponsors retain the right to publish the sponsored materials on their own web site, in cooperation with this knowledge exchange program and web site.
For more information, please contact dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org

The current list of calls for reviewers, contributors, writers and sponsors include:

  • Nutrition Friendly Schools; includes a call for reviewers for three sets of already sponsored summaries on selected topics as well as writers, contributors and sponsors for other NFS topics.The goal is to create an "e-book" version of a Practitioners/Policy-Makers Handbook on Nutrition Friendly Schools. (Initial series of summaries sponsored by Best Practices Portal, Public Health Agency of Canada)

  • School Substance Abuse Prevention; includes a call for reviewers, writers & contributors to further develop a series of papers from "rough drafts" prepared from a sponsored project as well as a call for new papers on other topics in school SA prevention. The objective is to create an "e-book" version of a Practitioners/Policy-makers Handbook on School Substance Abuse Prevention by January 2011 (Sponsored by Community Initiatives Fund, Health Canada)
  • Resilience and other Behaviour Theories (GT, EE, HS, BT);; reviewers are requested for a series of summaries on the program and policy implications of resilience as an emerging behaviour theory. Sponsors, writers and contributors are requested for similar summaries on other behaviour theories with a goal to create an e-book version Practitioners/Policy-Makers Handbook on Applications of Behaviour Theories in School Human Development. (Resilience summaries sponsored by the Office of Demand Reduction, Regions & Programs Branch, Health Canada)

  • Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation in School Health, Safety and Social Development; One of this series of topics has been completed (see below) and several are planned, including Self-Assessment Tools, Data-based Decision-making, Program Evaluation, Indicator Development and Survey Development.

  • Implementation and Sustainability Issues. There are several categories and sub-topics within this topic area, including the implementation process within a given context such as school, school board or community, taking a program to scale/disseminating a program, building professional, school, agency, community or system capacity, sustainability or institutionalization and undertaking systems change.

  • Core Concepts in School Health Promotion, Safety and Social Development: This series of topics has also been started (see below). These topics include generic topics that cut across a variety of health and social issues as well as the elements of school-based and school-linked programs. In many cases, specific summaries will refer to a "core" summary in order to not duplicate content. For example, many of the aspects of nutrition education are the same as other forms of health education/instruction, so we don't need to have two sets of summaries discussing the same aspects such as effective teaching methods (unless there is something unique about nutrion education that needs to be described).

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