Author Brig Leane introduces the PLC Dashboard, a tool designed to help administrators and teachers efficiently implement the PLC at Work® process. This resource utilizes a seven-step learning cycle, complete with illustrative examples, concise templates, and reflective exercises. The dashboard helps clarify and strengthen the PLC process to…

Institutions of higher education ultimately aim to deliver a quality education to students and help their students succeed while at their institution, and beyond. However, despite the emphasis academic administrators place on student success, the foundational elements of running an institution--academic operations--are often overlooked. While…

Though physical education instructional time varies across Canada, an idealised standard of 150 minutes per week has been identified, followed, and aspired to by many. For example, Canada's 'best performers' with respect to physical education instructional time achieve 150 minutes of weekly instruction. Moreover, Canada's national association for…

Through an ethnographic exploration of policy documents, this paper aims to expose how outcome-oriented education standards gained international hegemonic status in the Bologna Process. Taking inspiration in the concept of hegemony and by connecting the invisible power of hegemony to soft governance, the paper shows how the outcome-based modular…

English learners (ELs) are among the fastest-growing populations of students in our nation's public schools. This diverse subgroup of approximately 4.5 million students brings important cultural and linguistic assets to the public education system, but also faces a greater likelihood of lower graduation rates, academic achievement, and college…

An understanding of online teaching time requirements provides essential information to inform scheduling, course size and instructor workload; in addition, awareness of the distribution of time across online teaching tasks provides insight to focus faculty efforts and tailor professional development to target instructional needs. The purpose of…

For business schools, AACSB and Middle States' call for more experiential learning is one reason to provide study abroad programs. Universities must attend to the demand for continuous improvement and employ metrics to benchmark and evaluate their relative standing among peer institutions. One such benchmark is the National Survey of Student…