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Direct linkHeather Hodge – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study examined the impact of professional learning communities (PLCs) implementing a "Focus on Learning" in a Title I school in north central Georgia. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact PLCs can have on student growth and achievement in fourth and fifth-grade mathematics, once teachers spend time…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Student Development, Communities of Practice, Federal Programs
Erin E. Marcotte – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world, personally meaningful projects that allow conceptual transformation to occur within the educational process while fostering intellectual curiosity in a supportive learning environment. PBL supports students developing deep content…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Grade 4, National Competency Tests
Peer reviewedEliza Braden; Michele Myers; Natasha Thornton; Sanjuana Rodriguez; Kamania Wynter-Hoyte – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This qualitative study explores how teachers implement literacy pedagogies that affirm and engage students despite facing restrictive literacy mandates. We interviewed a focus group of four veteran Revolutionary Loving kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers from three Title 1 schools in the southeastern United States. Additionally, the study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education, Learner Engagement
Edelson, Daniel C.; Reiser, Brian J.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Mohan, Audrey; Novak, Michael; Mohan, Lindsey; Affolter, Renee; McGill, Tara A. W.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Deutch Noll, Jamie; Kowalski, Susan M.; Novak, Dawn; Lo, Abraham S.; Landel, Carolyn; Krumm, Andrew; Penuel, William R.; Van Horne, Katie; González-Howard, María; Suárez, Enrique – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
OpenSciEd is an ambitious effort to implement the vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the "Next Generation Science Standards" broadly across the United States. The premise of OpenSciEd is that high quality instructional materials can play a critical role in transforming science teaching and learning at a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Materials, Educational Change
Steven Keyser Skolfield – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Saint Edmond's Academy is a small, independent, Catholic school in Wilmington, Delaware. Students in Grades 4 to 7 are falling below their peers in other independent schools on standardized tests in mathematics, specifically the Educational Advisory Company Comprehensive Testing Program assessment. Within the scope of this work, my goal was to…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Small Schools, Grade 4
Drake, Corey; Land, Tonia J.; Bartell, Tonya Gau; Aguirre, Julia M.; Foote, Mary Q.; McDuffie, Amy Roth; Turner, Erin E. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
Many teachers experience the tension between using published curriculum materials and teaching in ways that are responsive to children. Teachers are often expected to use a particular mathematics curriculum series, but they still want to be able to build on and connect to children's multiple mathematical knowledge bases (MMKB).…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Relevance (Education), Problem Solving
Download full textFisher, Anthony; Ussher, Bill – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2014
The revised New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) was introduced in 2007 and seen as an opportunity for schools and communities to work together to provide a curriculum that reflected local needs. The NZC identifies learning areas providing students with the foundation on which they can develop and later specialise. It would be expected that this broad…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Academic Standards, Foreign Countries, National Standards
O'Keefe, Bonnie; King, Melissa Steel; Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
In the past several decades, Boston has been a proving ground for new strategies such as mayoral control, charter schools, and expanded access to early childhood education. Located in a state known for rigorous standards and accountability, Boston Public Schools (BPS) has consistently ranked among the top-performing large public school districts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Schools, Urban Schools, School Districts
Caven, Meghan; Checkoway, Amy; Gamse, Beth; Luck, Rachel; Wu, Sally – Abt Associates, 2012
This brief highlights key information about enrichment activities, which represent one of the main components of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative. Over time, the ELT initiative has supported over two dozen schools across the Commonwealth. A comprehensive evaluation of the ELT initiative found that implementation of the…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Enrichment Activities, Teacher Surveys, Student Surveys
Brink, Carole Sanger – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 2007, Georgia developed a comprehensive framework to define what students need to know. One component of this framework emphasizes the use of both formative and summative assessments as part of an integral and specific component of the teachers. performance evaluation. Georgia administers the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) to every…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Educational Strategies, Program Effectiveness
Lee, Howard; Lee, Gregory – Teachers and Curriculum, 2009
The recently elected National Government has proceeded, under urgency, to pass the Education (National Standards) Amendment Bill, legislation that seeks to provide specific information for both schools and parents about how well every primary and intermediate school student (Years 1 to 8) is progressing in literacy and numeracy compared with other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, National Standards, Educational Legislation
Fisher, Douglas; McDonald, Nan – Teaching Artist Journal, 2004
The call for curriculum integration "with" and "through" the arts is evident within many elementary school environments. Arts specialists are frequently asked to link their classroom curriculum to other content area instructional goals and standards. Furthermore, fully one third of national, state and local content standards in the arts (music,…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Art Education, Music Education, Elementary School Curriculum
