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Jeanne Ho; David Foo Seong Ng; Puay Huat Chua; Norhayati Binte Munir – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
This paper examined leadership practices which supported the diffusion of an innovation in a cluster of schools in Singapore, through the lenses of complexity leadership theory (CLT) and ecological leadership. The approach is a qualitative case study, with the unit of analysis bounded by the innovation and a cluster of schools involved in the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Role, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education
Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Estrella, Denise; Arnett, Elizabeth; Iveland, Ashley; Nilsen, Katy – WestEd, 2020
The NGSS Early Implementers Initiative was created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Many educational initiatives are funded for only a couple of years. This unique initiative spanned an extraordinary six…
Descriptors: State Standards, Science Education, Science Instruction, School Districts
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Eckman, Ellen Wexler – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
This case study followed the implementation of the co-principal leadership model in a K-8 school district for three years. A district superintendent implemented the co-principal model to (1) resolve issues around merging existing schools with well-established principals; (2) provide leadership stability and succession planning; and (3) serve as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Principals, Program Implementation, Models
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2022
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) of the State Board of Education are working on a new teacher licensure pathways proposal, Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals (Model). This proposal, if enacted, would restructure the state's system…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, School Districts, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Estrella, Denise; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley; Nguyen, Kimberly; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2019
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Administrators need learning opportunities if they are to adequately understand the substantial shifts of the Next…
Descriptors: School Districts, Science Education, State Standards, Kindergarten
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2022
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) of the State Board of Education are working on a new teacher licensure pathways proposal, Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals (Model). This proposal, if enacted, would restructure the state's system…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Administrator Attitudes
Erica Lynn Kolat – ProQuest LLC, 2014
National surveys regarding blended and online programs continue to document an increased enrollment of K-12 students. However, the overall research base for this age group remains limited. Although some states collect and report data of fully online programs, information regarding blended and online programs in traditional school districts…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Mintrop, Rick – Harvard Education Press, 2016
At the heart of the effort to enact and scale up successful school reforms is the need for more robust links between research and practice. One promising approach is design development, a methodology widely used in other fields and only recently adapted to education, which offers a disciplined process for identifying practical problems, assessing…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Case Studies, Research and Development
Tabor, Bruce – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study investigated the experiences of 10 superintendents in Pre-K-8, 1A, and small 2A schools located in rural areas of Texas, who have implemented an online learning program or programs. Narrative techniques were used to explore the challenges that they faced in the pre-planning, planning, implementation and evaluation of their…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Program Evaluation, Computer Software, Grants
Rentner, Diane Stark – Center on Education Policy, 2013
With the voluntary Common Core State Standards (CCSS), states have sought to establish clear, high expectations that are consistent across participating states and that signal what K-12 students should learn in mathematics and English language arts (ELA) to be prepared for college and careers. As of July 2013, the CCSS have been adopted by 45…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Mathematics Instruction
Rentner, Diane Stark – Center on Education Policy, 2013
States are in a crucial phase of implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which outline the knowledge and skills that students in grades kindergarten through 12 are expected to learn in mathematics and English language arts (ELA) to be prepared for college and careers. As of July 2013, 45 states and the District of Columbia have…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Mathematics Instruction, Language Arts
Samples, Roger – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study seeks to describe how elementary principals in a large Washington school district perceived the district office administration's implementation of Response to Intervention over a four-year period. RTI is a widely used intervention system that requires schools to assess whether each of their students is learning, adapting instruction for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Action Research, Informal Assessment, Program Implementation
Korkmaz, Isa – Online Submission, 2011
The Disabilities Education Act was introduced in June, 1997 in the Turkish Education System. The Act states that schools have a duty to educate children with disabilities in general education classrooms. All children with disabilities should be educated with non-disabled children at their own age and have access to the general education…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Schools, General Education, Disabilities
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Dotger, Benjamin H.; Mangram, Jeffrey A. – Planning and Changing, 2008
When school personnel are confronted with initiatives that require changes in scholastic curricula, processes, programs, or structures, there is often a naturally occurring defensiveness against, instead of an open embrace of, new educational innovations (Hall & Hord, 2006). This article examines a whole-school reform initiative, specifically…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Educational Change
Kingsley, Judith W. – Pivot Learning Partners, 2011
When Palmdale School District and Pivot Learning Partners entered into their first contract in 2006, neither organization foresaw the magnitude and complexity the relationship would take over time. Pivot Learning Partners (formerly known as Springboard Schools) is a non-profit service provider that first entered the Palmdale School District…
Descriptors: School Districts, Organizational Development, Superintendents, Nonprofit Organizations
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