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Ralph A. Gigliotti; Brent D. Ruben; Christine Goldthwaite; Brian L. Strom – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
The challenges facing academic health and medicine are abundant and require effective leadership across institutions. This article highlights the design of a collaborative leadership development program for faculty administrators that seeks to address many of these leadership challenges. The article begins with an overview of existing research to…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, College Administration
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Ruben, Brent D.; De Lisi, Richard; Gigliotti, Ralph A. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
In response to both the lack of formal leadership training and the challenges facing leaders across higher education, a number of programs are being planned and initiated at colleges and universities. This application brief highlights the conceptual foundations, structural components, and operational considerations of one such program, the Rutgers…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, College Students, Program Descriptions, Program Design
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Cormier, Dwayne Ray – School-University Partnerships, 2021
In this article, the author summarizes his efforts to design the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol (CPCDP), a tool purposed to assess and codify educators' cultural competence. The design and development of the CPCDP took place within four school-university partnerships (e.g., Professional Development School and Hybrid Partnership).…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Cultural Awareness, Student Diversity, Partnerships in Education
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Fisch, Audrey – Composition Forum, 2017
This profile presents New Jersey City University's Writing Assessment Program from its creation in 2002 to its elimination in 2017. The program arose as an attempt to raise the writing skills of the diverse, first generation teacher certification candidates in the College of Education. Despite political missteps, the program gained greater…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, College Programs, Program Design, Program Development
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Blackwell, Stacey; Katzen, Sari; Patel, Nipa; Sun, Yan; Emenike, Mary – Learning Assistance Review, 2017
The authors introduce the Preparation in STEM Leadership Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This NSF-Funded program and research study creates a centralized training program for peer leaders that includes a battery of assessments to evaluate peer leaders' content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, communication skills, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Peer Groups, STEM Education, Leadership Training
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Ann Warner-Ault; Isabel Kentengian – Hispania, 2025
This article presents a guide to implementing oral history projects in Spanish language courses, drawing from our fifteen-year collaborative initiatives with various community organizations in the Trenton area. Among these is our comprehensive Puerto Rican Oral History Project, which resulted in five short video documentaries and over sixty…
Descriptors: Oral History, High School Teachers, College Faculty, Advanced Courses
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Eiseman, Danielle L.; Armstrong, Anne K.; Chatrchyan, Allison M. – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This paper examines the feasibility of developing a new Master Volunteer training program to help communities adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Traditional models of volunteer training programs, such as the Cooperative Extension Master Volunteer peer-to-peer learning model, are based in part on Diffusion Theory. The existing…
Descriptors: Climate, Program Design, Volunteers, Environmental Education
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Rector, Patricia; Bakacs, Michele; Rowe, Amy; Barbour, Bruce – Journal of Extension, 2016
The case study presented in this article is an example of an implementation evaluation. The evaluation investigated significant components of the implementation of a long-term environmental educational program. Direct observation, evaluation-specific survey data, and historical data were used to determine program integrity as identified by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Environmental Education
Kim, Juli; Field, Tim; Hassel, Bryan C. – Public Impact, 2019
Across the United States, a movement to create a new kind of public school--"autonomous district schools"--is giving districts the freedoms charter schools receive. Like charter schools, autonomous district schools are freed from innovation-inhibiting state and district policies, allowing talented educators to make academic and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Public Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Silander, Megan; Chavez-Reilly, Michael; Weinstein, Meryle – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2015
Teaching entrepreneurship--how to create, grow and run a business or organization--is one potential means to increase college and career readiness skills. Learning how to start a business can improve critical thinking, communication and collaboration (Gallagher, Stepien, & Rosenthal, 1992; Hmelo, 1998), which are key qualities for academic as…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Business Skills
Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Margolis, Jason; Harrison Berg, Jill; Comstock, Meghan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2020
Teacher leadership is increasingly recognized as a promising strategy to improve the quality of instruction in U.S. schools. Despite the rising number of teacher leadership programs in the country, there is a paucity of knowledge about the work that teacher leaders (TLs) engage in, how educators experience teacher leadership and the impacts of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Teacher Improvement, School Districts
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Young, Michelle D. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2013
There is a pervasive and ongoing perception that leadership preparation is a problem. Important questions remain about the intentions, capacity, and impact of state departments of education engaged in leadership preparation program redesign. In this essay, I take up several issues concerning this state policy work, including whether a one size…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, State Departments of Education, College Programs
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Phillips, Joy C. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2013
Increasing criticism of practicing educational leaders has led to additional critiques of the university programs in which they are prepared. In response, many states have mandated statewide university preparation program redesign. The articles in this special issue describe five unique cases of principal preparation program redesign--including…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Program Design, Educational Change
Wise, Mark; McTighe, Jay – Educational Leadership, 2017
From global hunger to the world's water crisis, middle school students at New Jersey's West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District spend the last few days of the school year problem solving about the planet's most dire issues. With the Global Challenge, the school district's administrators not only want to implement an interesting and dynamic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Global Education, Global Approach, Problem Solving
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Abernathy, Claire; Forestal, Jennifer – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
This study focuses on examining the role that isolated extracurricular events can play in furthering students' civic education; these one-time events require fewer resources to implement than courses and therefore provide valuable opportunities for faculty to engage new audiences on their campuses in the work of civic learning. In order to develop…
Descriptors: Political Science, Civics, Extracurricular Activities, College Faculty
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