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A Story Legitimating the Voices of Latino/Hispanic Students and Their Parents: Creating a Restorative Justice Response to Wrongdoing and Conflict in Schools
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Cavanagh, Tom; Vigil, Patricia; Garcia, Estrellita – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This article chronicles how a group of university researchers initiated a research and professional development project called Culture of Care at a large high school in the Denver Metropolitan area. After implementation, Latino/Hispanic students and their parents maintained the project. It was the charge of Latino/Hispanic parents to dismantle the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Social Justice, Conflict, Faculty Development
Communication Is More than Language: Adult ESL Classes Foster Parent-School Collaboration
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Waterman, Robin – Bilingual Research Journal, 2008
Public-school policy and federal law both emphasize parental involvement, yet there is insufficient research guiding meaningful collaboration between school practitioners and immigrant parents. This article reports on results gleaned from a larger study of school-based adult ESL classes, focusing on the role that these classes could play in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Parent Participation
Indicators of Quality Schools: Instrument To Assess Your School's Quality. The Effective Education Series [No.] IV.
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1986
The Indicators of Quality Schools is a series of checklists of schoolwide practices or conditions found in schools known to have an effective instructional program. The instrument is designed to help schools identify areas of strength and areas where improvement is needed. The instrument consists of three parts: (1) the environment for learning,…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Educational Diagnosis
Research in the Classroom. Ninth Annual Report of Research Projects Conducted by Educators in Their Classrooms, 1994-1995.
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Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 1996
The report summarizes five Colorado teacher research projects in teaching students with disabilities. The five projects described demonstrate that teacher initiated classroom based research allows educators to develop innovative approaches to instruction and to analyze their results in an objective way. The following projects are presented: (1)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education