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Rachael C. Rost-Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand the impact of a multi-session, sustainability-related professional learning program on twelve PreKindergarten-8th grade educators…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Self Efficacy
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Pacey, Carol A.; Marsh, Paul C. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2013
Limited public outreach programs about Arizona native fish exist and those that do are passive, fee-based, or Web-oriented, while others limit their geographic range. The program this article addresses sought to improve this situation with development of a state-wide outreach program with a goal to educate Arizona's children about native fish with…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Teaching Methods, Wildlife, Multimedia Instruction
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Aguirre, Virginio; Orihuela, Agustin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to evaluate if an educational package used for animal welfare teaching would have significant effects on the knowledge of first grade children in a rural area of Mexico. The research was conducted with 276 students in six public schools. In the experimental group, 177 children participated in a 10 week-long animal…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Animals, Rural Areas
Reed, Carolyn Mascia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
To be effective in providing a writing literacy program, regardless of communication approaches, educators should establish program-wide conditions that promote English writing literacy over time. The researcher's purpose for this study was to identify shared characteristics of writing intervention programs in three different communication school…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Program Design, Intervention, Day Schools