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Knight, Nina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Governmental attention to bullying in kindergarten through Grade 3 continues to be a challenge in a metropolitan school district in the eastern United States. This has presented a case for school policy reform. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine how bullying and office discipline related to suspension referrals,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Change, School Policy, Kindergarten
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Carlisle, Joanne F.; Cortina, Kai Schnabel; Katz, Lauren A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this study was to compare 1st-grade teachers' responses to professional development (PD) programs in reading that differed in means and degree of support for teachers' learning and efforts to improve their reading instruction. We compared 3 models of PD: the 1st model provided only seminars for the teachers, the 2nd model provided…
Descriptors: Seminars, Grade 1, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development
Anderson, Kimberly L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the differential effects of two components of the Interactive Strategies Approach (ISA) professional development program on outcomes related to teacher knowledge, teacher practice, and student reading achievement. The professional development for teachers focused on word solving skill among struggling first grade readers. The…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Reading, Reading Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations