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Cohen, Jefna M. – Learning Professional, 2023
How does one overcome the challenges to finding time for meaningful professional learning? The authors asked seven experts in the field, and these practitioners offer powerful strategies for making better use of educator time. An example from Illinois centers student data in school systems as an essential component of a school's overall commitment…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Data Use
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Elizabeth D. Steiner; Lauren Covelli; Miray Tekkumru-Kisa; Melissa Kay Diliberti – RAND Corporation, 2025
This report provides the perspectives of multiple respondent groups -- districts, principals, and math teachers -- on math-focused professional learning (PL) for teachers. The authors explore the factors that district and school leaders consider when selecting math-focused PL. These factors include principal autonomy to select PL; teachers'…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Mathematics Curriculum
Browne, Daniel – Wallace Foundation, 2019
This Wallace "Perspective" delves into what makes for a high-quality, voluntary summer learning program, one that provides children from disadvantaged communities with engaging academics as well as stimulating enrichment activities during the interval between the end of the school year and back-to-school time. Interest in these programs…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment Activities, Program Effectiveness
Chambers, Jay; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Wang, Antonia; O'Neil, Caitlin – RAND Corporation, 2014
The goal of the Intensive Partnership (IP) initiative is to improve student success by transforming how teachers are recruited, developed, assigned, rewarded, and retained. RAND and American Institutes for Research (AIR) have been studying the seven IP sites (including three districts and four charter management organizations--CMOs) since the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Time Management