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Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2011
This report provides AISD staff with a guide to sustain project evaluation practices on ARRA IDEA projects after grant funding ends by enhancing staff capacity to include evaluation in planning, managing, and improving the projects and programs.
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2010
This report summarizes project results midyear during the 2009-2010 school year for Austin Independent School District's $17 million federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (ARRA IDEA) grant.
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Doolittle, Martha; Koehler, Holly – Online Submission, 2010
This report summarizes 2009-2010 projects funded by Austin Independent School District's (AISD) $17 million federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act grant.
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
LaRocco, Diana J.; Murdica, Perri – Online Submission, 2009
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (Hall & Hord, 2006) is one tool educational leaders can use to understand the process of change and teachers' stage-related concerns when implementing innovations. This paper presents select findings from a comparative case study of two urban elementary schools in which changes in teachers' reports of their…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adoption (Ideas), Comparative Analysis, Disability Identification
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2011
Austin Independent School District used $16 million in federal funds to support 25 ARRA IDEA projects to reduce the student academic achievement gap, reduce disproportionality, reduce dropout, improve district processes, improve teacher quality, and evaluate programs.
Descriptors: School Districts, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Educational Legislation
Trewartha, Mollie Louise – Online Submission, 2007
Restructuring of schools by means of revising the school calendar from the traditional 9-month calendar to a year-round calendar is one reform idea proposed to meet the diverse abilities and needs of students. Considering the sweeping changes influenced by No Child Left Behind and the trend toward excellence in education, this research focused…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Year Round Schools, School Schedules, School Restructuring