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Nikula, Johannah; Buffington, Pamela; DePiper, Jill Neumayer; Louie, Josephine; Tierney-Fife, Peter – Educational Leadership, 2021
For professional learning to "stick," teachers need to connect what they learn to their practice--and particularly to their work with their current students. The authors describe a PD program they've developed for math teachers with emergent multilingual students (English language learners) in their classes. Teachers choose "focus…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers, Multilingualism
Miller, Johncarlos M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Character education (CE) in schools has been reported to support a safe school environment in which adults and students can embrace core ethical values such as respect, fairness, and responsibility, for example (Pala, 2011). It has the power to not only "cultivate minds [but] nurture hearts" as well (Pala, 2011, p. 26). The creation of a…
Descriptors: Values Education, Educational Improvement, Middle School Students, Secondary School Teachers
McAneny, Kathleen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to better comprehend the experiences of middle school teachers when they are asked to implement practices promoted in professional development. The professional development in which the teachers were involved centered on cultivating classroom discourse through the use of six Teacher Discourse Moves. These moves were…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Middle School Teachers, Educational Practices, Mathematics Instruction
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Bengtson, Ed; Connors, Sean P. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2014
This longitudinal study examined how the approach leaders in two schools took to implementing the Common Core State Standards shaped the way that two first-year teachers constructed meaning related to being a teacher. Instructional leadership constructs and threat rigidity theory were used to analyze qualitative data gathered over a nine-month…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Beginning Teachers, Longitudinal Studies, State Standards