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Ippolito, Jacy; Bean, Rita M. – Educational Leadership, 2019
To create a coaching culture, school leaders have to make it a priority and support coaching at every level, and continuously. This article offers five "dos" and four "don'ts" for school leaders on how to support coaching at their schools, highlighting topics such as professional development for coaches, scheduling time for…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Leadership Responsibility, Principals
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Stewart, Erin M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
One-on-one and program-based special education paraprofessionals are often used to support students with disabilities across school settings. While paraprofessionals may have the best of intentions, their proximity and the support they provide may prevent students with disabilities from fully accessing educational and social opportunities. To…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Paraprofessional School Personnel, Students with Disabilities, Role Perception
Benton, Stephen L.; Young, Suzanne – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
Effective instructor evaluation is complex and requires the use of multiple measures--formal and informal, traditional and authentic--as part of a balanced evaluation system. The student voice, a critical element of that balanced system, is appropriately complemented by instructor self-assessment and the reasoned judgments of other relevant…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Feedback (Response), Teacher Improvement
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Morret, Tanya H.; Machado, Crystal H. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2017
Given the wide range of ability (academic, linguistic and cultural) in classrooms differentiated instruction is often difficult to manage. District and building level leadership can play an important role by providing the vision and support needed to implement Whole School Cluster Grouping (WSCG), the innovative scheduling approach described in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cluster Grouping, Individualized Instruction, Scheduling
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Fedukovich, Casie; Hall, Megan – Composition Forum, 2016
This program profile describes recent changes to the process for preparing graduate teaching instructors (GTAs) in North Carolina State University's first-year writing program. The authors--one a nontenure-track faculty member and the other a tenure-track faculty member--describe the philosophical, ethical, and practical concerns in scaling…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Profiles, Teacher Education Programs, College Faculty
Joseph, Shawn – Eye on Education, 2012
For veteran principals, new principals, and aspiring principals, this book is a valuable resource for building instructional momentum during the beginning of the school year. Educational leadership expert Shawn Joseph guides administrators through five key areas: (1) Vision; (2) Instructional Leadership; (3) Politics; (4) Data; and (5) Planning.
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Guides, Instructional Effectiveness
Murray, Shannon – Principal Leadership, 2008
Flexible modular scheduling (flex mod)--a schedule philosophy and system that has been in place at Wausau West High School in Wausau, Wisconsin, for the last 35 years and aligns nicely with current research on student learning--is getting more and more attention from high school administrators across the country. Flexible modular scheduling was…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, High Schools, Block Scheduling, Career Centers
Connolly, Mike – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
A harried leader is not a helpful leader. Schools need calm, well-balanced, helpful leaders as much as they need visionary ones. In fact, in this era of frenetic change in schools, principals should devote at least as much time to helping teachers be more focused and less frantic as they do to formulating new visions for the school or embarking on…
Descriptors: Persistence, Educational Change, Principals, Educational Environment
Perlman, Carole L., Ed.; Redding, Sam, Ed. – Academic Development Institute, 2011
The purpose of this "Handbook" is to bolster the effective implementation of the intervention models and strategies outlined in the "2010 School Improvement Grant" (SIG) program--section 1003(g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--in order to achieve the program's clear goal--rapid improvement of persistently…
Descriptors: Grants, Guides, Program Implementation, Fidelity
Dunn, Randy J. – Principal, 1986
Provides time management strategies for principals who also teach. Advises organizing schedules, files, and materials, delegating routine tasks, coordinating forms and aadministrative structures, communicating directly and through conversational memos, building a cooperative staff, planning for systematic performance evaluation, and other hints.…
Descriptors: Administration, Principals, Scheduling, Time Management
Black, Steve; Mele, Tom – American School Board Journal, 1988
At Moreau Elementary School in South Glens Falls, New York, each microcomputer is placed on a tall, heavy-duty cart with shelves. All computer software is stored in the school library. The mobile computer labs and centralized software system have increased the school's instructional use of computers. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Elementary Education, Microcomputers, Mobile Laboratories
Nebraska Department of Education, 2007
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades" addresses the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction for English learners in the elementary grades. The Guide offers five specific recommendations for district…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Literacy
McGhee, Marla W.; Jansen, Barbara A. – Library Media Connection, 2006
What administrators know and understand matters when it comes to organizing a school for teaching and learning. When principals and assistant principals discourage the use of practices unfamiliar to them or do not support best practices, they can actually hamper student achievement and professional growth. This is especially true when it comes to…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Principals, Interpersonal Relationship
Nebraska Department of Education, 2007
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades" addresses the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction for English learners in the elementary grades. The Guide offers five specific recommendations for district…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Literacy
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1989
Those responsible for coordinating flexible and open learning in colleges should consider whether the time may be right to seek common ground on the issues and principles shared by the many related initiatives in Great Britain during the last two decades. Two principles that are important to flexible learning are that education's effectiveness is…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Distance Education, Flexible Scheduling, Foreign Countries
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