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Nermin Kasapoglu Kaya; Yavuz Erisen – Educational Research Quarterly, 2024
The present study focused on exploring the views of parents regarding character education programs implemented in elementary schools in the USA. The sample comprised of parents in Florida, as it is one of the states where character education is mandatory. Florida's implementation of compulsory character education is particularly significant given…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Values Education, Parent Role, Goal Orientation
Graham, Bob; Weingarten, Randi – American Educator, 2018
Following a shooting at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students from that school began to take matters into their own hands, meeting and networking on social media, speaking to the media, participating in vigils, organizing walkouts and demonstrations, establishing coalitions with others who share their outrage and goals, and…
Descriptors: Civics, Student Participation, Activism, Weapons
Keith Rene Rivero – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Today's students will face issues and problems that are global scale and require a collaborative global effort to resolve effectively. To help prepare students to resolve these global issues, students must learn to participate in the global democratic process as part of their citizenship education. In particular, scholars argue students need to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, World Affairs, High School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Aslan, Sinem; Li, Qi; Bonk, Curtis J.; Nachman, Lama – Online Learning, 2022
Since the spring of 2020, many early childhood education programs (pre-K, K, 1st, and 2nd grades) had to close as governments around the world took serious measures to slow down the transmission of COVID-19. As a result, the pandemic forced many early childhood teachers to start teaching online and continue supporting their students remotely.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Teachers
Wheeler, Stephanie K. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
Despite the excellent work by scholars who invite us to consider disability, social justice, and business and professional communication pedagogy, little attention has been given to what a disability- and social-justice-centered business and professional communication course might look like in design and implementation. This case study offers an…
Descriptors: Simulation, Social Justice, Business Communication, Business Administration Education
Keele, Holly Towle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The health and wellness of children is a growing concern as the number of children that are unhealthy continues to increase. Schools can play a pivotal role in promoting wellness among children and teenagers through implementing school-wide wellness initiatives that provide students multiple opportunities to learn and use healthy behaviors (Center…
Descriptors: Child Health, Wellness, School Role, Health Promotion
Investigating the Effectiveness of Professional Learning Communities in South Florida Public Schools
Novak, Renata Pessoa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This applied dissertation was designed to verify the effectiveness of professional learning communities (PLC), as it relates to the participation of administrators and teachers. Prior studies have emphasized the importance of continuing learning experiences for school administrators while working. Chiptin (2013) pointed out the importance of a…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Interprofessional Relationship, Communities of Practice, Mixed Methods Research
Crane, Eric W.; Makkonen, Reino – WestEd, 2019
For several years, WestEd's Measure to Learn and Improve (MLI) project team has kept California state policy leaders informed about the statewide implementation of the California Academic Standards in English language arts and mathematics, by summarizing and disseminating results from the RAND Corporation's annual American Educator Panel (AEP)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Policy, Language Arts, Mathematics Instruction
Gunn, AnnMarie Alberton – Multicultural Perspectives, 2016
This case study research investigated preservice and in-service teachers' (N = 23) experiences and understandings as they participated in a multicultural children and young adults' literature course that incorporates visits to a Holocaust museum. A graduate level course was redesigned within a framework of social justice pedagogy by focusing on…
Descriptors: Museums, Social Justice, Adolescent Literature, Racial Bias
Torgesen, Joseph K.; Houston, Debra D.; Rissman, Lila M.; Decker, Susan M.; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wexler, Jade; Francis, David J.; Rivera, Mabel O.; Lesaux, Nonie – Center on Instruction, 2017
This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists in the national Regional Comprehensive Center network as they work with states to improve educational policy and practice in the area of adolescent literacy. It comprises three major parts: Part One: "Improving academic literacy instruction for students in grades 4-12." Based on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy Education, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Vassiliou, John – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
In this study, 180 first-time-in-college (FTIC) students at Miami Dade College, Florida in need of remedial instruction in basic mathematics, reading, and sentence skills utilized the A[superscript +]dvancer[R] College Readiness Online software. Significant results were found with increased ACCUPLACER[R] scores; number of students who avoided at…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Remedial Instruction, Teaching Methods, Hispanic American Students
Shah, Nirvi – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
This article profiles Tranette Myrthil, a student at Miami Edison Senior High School, which serves the Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, one of the poorest communities in Florida. Tranette was always smarter than the curriculum allowed her to be. Now she is showing future teachers how to keep students engaged. Driven by her disappointment--and…
Descriptors: Racial Relations, Foreign Countries, Profiles, High School Students
Visher, Mary G.; Schneider, Emily; Wathington, Heather; Collado, Herbert – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2010
Community college leaders are using many strategies to improve their students' ability to complete their studies, particularly their academically underprepared students. In recent years, these strategies have included adaptations of an approach long used in four-year colleges known as "learning communities," in which groups of students…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Integrated Curriculum, Social Support Groups, Community Colleges
Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2015
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2015 proceedings: (1) Local History and Local Culture at the Core of Elementary Social Studies Curriculum (C.…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Elementary Education, Local History
Armbrister, Ana Leonor – ProQuest LLC, 2010
English Language Learners are an ever-growing population in public school systems today. Consequently, the policies and procedures that schools are required to adhere to are not limited to language minority students. In order for teachers to meet the needs of English Language Learning students, they need to address their student's whole…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Reading Comprehension, Student Participation, Second Language Learning
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