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Implementation of and Support for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs: An Examination of Alabama Program of Distinction Recipients
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Daniel J. Birdsong – ProQuest LLC, 2020
To study the implementation of and support for comprehensive school counseling programs (CSCP), I examined the perceptions and experiences of administrators and school counselors from programs awarded the Alabama School Counseling Program of Distinction. Through a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design, I explored the general research…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Program Implementation, Comprehensive Programs, Administrators
My Thirty-Four Years as a School Governor, with Reflections on Some Aspects of Curriculum Change
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Harris, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This reflection does not pretend to be a scientific survey of curriculum trends but is, as the title suggests, a personal reminiscence of governorship across different phases of education, with snippets about the curriculum that my memory recalls.
Descriptors: Reflection, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Admission Criteria
Inner London's Education Authority: Reflections on ILEA Twenty-Five Years after Closure
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Mitchell, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
It is 25 years since the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) was abolished and management of education in central London transferred to 13 London boroughs. The author reflects on the experience of being an ex-ILEA head teacher, and of managing one of the new local education authorities in the immediate post-ILEA period. He begins by commenting…
Descriptors: Reflection, School District Reorganization, Local Government, Organizational Change
Examining Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) and Its Impact on Middle School Rigor and Student Preparedness
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Huerta, Jeffery J.; Watt, Karen M.; Butcher, Jennifer T. – American Secondary Education, 2013
This study examines the impact that Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) in middle school has on middle school course rigor and students' high school performance and college readiness. The study compares students who took AVID in middle school and high school with students who only took AVID in high school. The changes in middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Readiness, College Preparation, Program Effectiveness
An Investigation Examining the Perceived Implications of Principal Leadership Changing a Large Comprehensive High School into Smaller Learning Communities
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Miller, Raymond J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the perceived implications that principal leadership has on transforming a large comprehensive high school into smaller learning communities (SLCs); and to speculate on possible factors that contribute to the change process after the implementation of SLCs. The study explores the roles,…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Comprehensive Programs, High Schools
An Investigation of the Role of a Teacher Evaluation System and Its Influence on Teacher Practice and Professional Growth in Four Urban High Schools
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Towe, Princess B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the perceptions of Language Arts teachers, Mathematics teachers, and administrators in four high schools in a large urban New Jersey school district regarding a standards-based teacher evaluation system implemented in 2003 adapted and modeled on "Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching" (Danielson,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, High Schools
Effects of a Legislated Mandate: "The Comprehensive School Improvement Process and Middle-Level Gifted and Talented Programming"
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Schneider, Jean Suchsland – Roeper Review, 2006
This descriptive study investigated two areas: (a) perceived changes in gifted and talented (G/T) programming in Iowa from the time a state mandate was implemented to the time of the study, and (b) perceived effects of the mandate on G/T programming in Iowa. Perceptions of middle-level teachers of gifted and talented students (n = 111) were…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Gifted, Educational Change, Program Implementation