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School District and University Leadership Development Collaborations: How Do Three Partnerships Line up with Best Practices?
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Stevenson, Zollie, Jr.; Shetley, Pamela R. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
This article explores the application of Whitaker, King, and Vogel's (2004) best practices for the implementation of partnerships regarding school leadership preparation programs in 3 school district-university collaboratives located in urban settings with large minority student populations. The 3 partnerships studied include the Nashville…
Descriptors: School Districts, Partnerships in Education, Best Practices, Program Implementation
Taking Teacher Quality Seriously: A Collaborative Approach to Teacher Evaluation
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Karp, Stan – Rethinking Schools, 2012
If narrow, test-based evaluation of teachers is unfair, unreliable, and has negative effects on kids, classrooms, and curricula, what's a better approach? By demonizing teachers and unions, and sharply polarizing the education debate, the corporate reform movement has actually undermined serious efforts to improve teacher quality and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Psychometrics
Compendium of Quality Rating Systems and Evaluations: The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment
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Tout, Kathryn; Starr, Rebecca; Soli, Margaret; Moodie, Shannon; Kirby, Gretchen; Boller, Kimberly – Administration for Children & Families, 2010
Quality Rating Systems (QRS) are currently operating, under development, or being piloted in over 25 states or local areas. As the QRS model becomes integrated into the landscape of child care and education service delivery, policy, and the decisions parents make about child care across the United States, there is an increasing need for…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Rating Scales, Educational Quality
Better Together: Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool (A Conference Report)
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Cummins, H. J. – Wallace Foundation, 2013
What happens when teams from 57 cities building afterschool systems gather to discuss two key system responsibilities--improving afterschool programs and using data for informed decision-making? Lots of rich discussion. This report covers a national afterschool conference held in February 2013. It details what mayors, program providers, system…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Decision Making Skills, Management Information Systems, After School Programs
Early Learning Support Network.
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Instruction. – 1988
This brief document profiles Maryland's Early Learning Support Network. The Network includes a group of early childhood centers in public schools in the state. The centers serve as training and observation sites for persons interested in improving the quality of their early learning programs. Two types of centers are involved: observation centers…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Inservice Teacher Education, Networks
Standards for Implementing Quality Early Learning Programs: Manual of Best Practices To Implement Quality Early Learning Programs.
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Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1998
As public schools collaborate with the Head Start and child care communities to improve the quality of early childhood education and care, practitioners working with young children need guidance and support in implementing best practices in early learning. This manual provides guidance to teachers engaged in improving their programs in concert…
Descriptors: Accountability, Child Care, Child Care Quality, Child Caregivers