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Amy Webber – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a framework that is used in many school districts in the state of Florida. When implemented with fidelity, this preventative program is designed to promote a positive climate and culture in schools, with the aim of limiting behavior that distracts or disrupts the learning environment, thus…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Rural Schools, Elementary Schools, Program Implementation
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Eric S. Davis; Bonnie C. Gomez; Thomas M. Toomey; Sarah K. Putnam; Antonio Belavilas – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Anti-LGBTQ+ school legislation has proliferated across the United States in recent years, with potential consequences for both students and school counselors. Florida's controversial 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act offers one such example. In this descriptive, phenomenological, qualitative study, we examined the experiences of 10 Florida…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Counselors, State Legislation, Parent Rights
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Beth M. Phillips; Christopher J. Lonigan; Young-Suk G. Kim; Jeanine Clancy; Carol M. Connor – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
The strong association of early language skills to later reading ability suggests that supporting the development of these skills in children who enter preschool or kindergarten with below-average language abilities may lead to stronger reading skills. Despite this, few evidence-based supplemental language instructional programs exist for…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Supplementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children
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Pei Zhu; Emma Alterman; Nicholas Commins; Peyton Nash – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: In the early elementary grades, many students do not achieve literacy proficiency due to inadequate personalized literacy instruction (Taylor et al., 2010). Despite increasing evidence that differentiated instruction informed by assessments of students' reading abilities can improve learning more effectively than…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Small Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Literacy
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McLeod, Bryce D.; Sutherland, Kevin S.; Conroy, Maureen A.; Lyon, Aaron R.; Chapman, Jason E.; Granger, Kristen L.; Saldana, Lisa – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2023
Evidence-based programs (EBPs) delivered in elementary schools show great promise in reducing risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBDs). However, efforts to sustain EBPs in school face barriers. Improving EBP sustainment thus represents a priority, but little research exists to inform the development of sustainment strategies. To address…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Elementary School Students
Robert C. Schoen; Wendy S. Bray; Amanda M. Tazaz; Charity K. Buntin – Grantee Submission, 2022
Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) is a teacher PD program that has been found to have a potentially positive impact on student learning in mathematics through randomized controlled trials. Through a series of grant-funded projects led by FSU, approximately 2,000 Florida teachers have participated in CGI-based professional development in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development
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Smith, Sara; Carlo, María Soledad; Plaza, Ester García; Santiago, Carla Zayas; Young, Denise Jimenez – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2023
Research suggests that elementary English Learners (ELs) benefit from interactive dual-language vocabulary instruction delivered one-on-one or in small groups. However, there are many barriers to providing this type of instruction to all ELs, including time constraints and bilingual teacher shortages. Thus, there is a high need for innovative,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Grade 4, Bilingual Education
Michael Alfred Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Enny Elementary School (This is an actual school with a different name to protect the identity of all stakeholders. All data is real, and any names used are pseudonyms.) is in South Florida and operates under the auspices of The Palm Beach County School District. The school serves over seven hundred students with forty-three teachers and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools
Rachel Kathryn West – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Multi-Tiered System of Supports is a comprehensive framework that unites colleagues of various backgrounds together in pursuit of a common goal to support students with evidence-based interventions to meet their individual needs in the school setting. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of professional development training teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Personnel, Faculty Development, Professional Development
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Girio-Herrera, Erin; Egan, Theresa E.; Owens, Julie Sarno; Evans, Steven W.; Coles, Erika K.; Holdaway, Alex S.; Mixon, Clifton S.; Kassab, Hannah D. – School Mental Health, 2021
The goals of the study were to (a) examine teacher-reported acceptability of a daily report card (DRC) intervention for a student in their classroom prior to and during implementation; (b) examine factors that predict acceptability; and (c) explore the relations between teacher-reported acceptability, student and teacher characteristics prior to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Report Cards, Program Implementation
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Rosen, David J. – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
The focus of each Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column begins with a common challenge facing adult basic skills practitioners. This article examines a technology solution to two large and related challenges: student engagement and student persistence, which, from a program or school perspective, is often described as…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence
Girio-Herrera, Erin; Egan, Theresa E.; Owens, Julie Sarno; Evans, Steven W.; Coles, Erika K.; Holdaway, Alex S.; Mixon, Clifton S.; Kassab, Hannah D. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The goals of the study were to (a) examine teacher-reported acceptability of a daily report card (DRC) intervention for a student in their classroom prior to and during implementation; (b) examine factors that predict acceptability; and (c) explore the relations between teacher-reported acceptability, student and teacher characteristics prior to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Report Cards, Program Implementation
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
Leaders across North Carolina believe strongly in the potential for all students to read proficiently by 3rd grade. Yet despite significant effort and investment, only 36% of 4th graders are at or above proficient in reading. The Belk Foundation, in partnership with The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), The Foundation for…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Partnerships in Education, Excellence in Education, Reading Research
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Hasson, Julie D. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2018
Justine Finley, newly appointed principal of Northside Elementary, had been tasked with increasing her school's grade under the state accountability system and keeping neighborhood families from choosing to enroll in the charter school down the street. The superintendent made these priorities very clear. After spending the first 3 months observing…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Teacher Placement, Principals, Decision Making
Edmunds, Julie; Arshavsky, Nina; Coyle, Victoria; Hutchins, Bryan; Lewis, Karla; Williams, Melissa; Rosof, Laura; Gicheva, Dora; Henson, Bob – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2022
This report represents the final results of an evaluation of Project EQuIPD--Engaging Quality Instruction through Professional Development. The project provided two years of intensive professional development to help teachers learn to think more strategically about how to improve student outcomes using technology-based inquiry instruction. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Outcomes of Education
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