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Nicole N. Waskie-Laura – Learning Professional, 2023
Districts may have limited internal capacity to provide teachers with sustained, systemic professional learning that is relevant to every teacher due to a lack of funding, inadequate staffing, insufficient time, and competing demands. Educational service agencies, which work at the regional level to support multiple districts, can address those…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Special Education Teachers, Agency Role, Program Effectiveness
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Altunay, Esen; Bakir, Dilsad – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
This study intends to analyse the roles of Adult Education Centres and Civil Society Organisations in adult education activities in Turkey. The research design is a phenomenological pattern, one of the qualitative research methods. The tool for data collection is a semi-structured interview form. The study group consists of 30 participants. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Finance, Barriers
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Meesuk, Parinya; Wongrugsa, Angwara; Wangkaewhiran, Thipwimol – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2021
In Thailand, in-service teachers' professional development has been implemented through the Professional Learning Community (PLC) program for more than four years to develop teachers' sustainably. The sustainable development program has spread across the country in the Thai Teacher Council network. The research goals are as follows: (1) to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Sustainable Development, Communities of Practice, School Administration
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Norville, Valerie – State Education Standard, 2021
Approved by the Kansas State Board of Education in 2017, the school redesign project has seen more than 160 schools to reimagine their learning models in a state-led, multiyear process. Annual cohorts named for NASA lunar missions, the fourteen schools in seven districts that formed the initial Mercury cohort engaged in intensive planning and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education
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Honey, Margaret A., Ed.; Dibner, Kenne A., Ed.; Taylor, Tiffany E., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2020
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the United States' leading federal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) agencies and plays an important role in the landscape of STEM education. In 2015, NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) created the Science Activation (SciAct) program to increase the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Educational Objectives, Scientific Literacy
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Hudson, Tina M.; McKenzie, Robert G. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2016
As it has become a prominent feature in the identification of students with specific learning disabilities (SLD), response to intervention (RTI) has generated significant interest and, in some respects, controversy regarding assessment and attendant procedures. In the present study, the authors surveyed state directors of special education…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, State Agencies
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
One of the biggest challenges that states and local intermediaries face in setting up and scaling high-quality youth apprenticeships is gathering relevant, accurate and actionable data. High-quality data is an essential ingredient for a strong youth apprenticeship program because it equips state and local leaders to evaluate impact, monitor…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Youth Programs, Apprenticeships, Data Collection