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Foster, Elizabeth – Learning Professional, 2022
A recent independent evaluation by WestEd of Learning Forward's What Matters Now Network looked at the ways in which a structured, facilitated network provided support for state-level coalitions working with districts, schools, and educators to improve instruction and make progress toward achieving content standards. The network was facilitated by…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Instructional Improvement
Schwenn, Ashley E.; Hanes, Caitlyn M.; Bernstein, Elana R. – Communique, 2022
Among the multitude of solutions to the field's ongoing personnel shortage, many state associations have stepped in to commit time and resources to addressing it. One such example is in Ohio, where a joint initiative of the Ohio School Psychologists Association (OSPA) and Ohio's Inter-University Council of School Psychology programs, known as the…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Clubs, College Students, Outreach Programs
Bernstein, Elana R.; Lockemer, Ashley E.; Justice, Ann F. – Communique, 2021
Historically, despite more formal efforts to spread awareness about the profession, many school psychologists discover the field "by accident" or happenstance. This, in conjunction with attrition, training constraints, an expanding role in schools, and an ever-evolving need for increased school psychologist-to-student ratios to address…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Clubs, College Students, Outreach Programs
Brown, Amy E.; Minaya, Veronica – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2022
Approximately 450 community colleges nationally are part of formal statewide or national initiatives to implement guided pathways reforms to improve student success, and many other colleges are implementing guided pathways practices on their own. Because guided pathways is a whole-college reform--and because it takes several years to fully…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Program Evaluation, Surveys, Web Sites
Daugherty, Lindsay – Grantee Submission, 2020
"Stackable credential programs" are designed to make it easier for students to earn multiple postsecondary certificates or degrees in a field as they advance in their careers. To examine the stacking of credentials in Ohio and inform ongoing efforts to scale stackable credential programs, the Ohio Department of Higher Education and the…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Postsecondary Education, Credentials
Dorimé-Williams, Marjorie; Plancarte, Vivianna – MDRC, 2022
In 2019, MDRC launched the Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) project to improve college completion rates for traditionally underserved students, such as students from low-income backgrounds and students of color, at community and broad-access colleges (those that have open or minimally selective admissions…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, College Students, Community College Students
Hallberg, Kelly; Williams, Ryan; Swanlund, Andrew; Eno, Jared – Educational Researcher, 2018
Short comparative interrupted times series (CITS) designs are increasingly being used in education research to assess the effectiveness of school-level interventions. These designs can be implemented relatively inexpensively, often drawing on publicly available data on aggregate school performance. However, the validity of this approach hinges on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Comparative Analysis, Time
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Bircher, Lisa S.; Sansenbaugher, Bonnie – Science and Children, 2017
This article describes an elementary science summer day camp at East Palatine High School in East Palestine, Ohio, for students in grades K-4, aided by high school (grades 9-12) student mentors. The school's Outdoor Area for Studies in Science (OASIS) is used for formal and informal studies in science for an elementary science camp week. The camp…
Descriptors: Summer Science Programs, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Mentors
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Denecker, Christine – Journal of Faculty Development, 2014
Positive, student-centered learning environments and the professional development opportunities which support those environments, while crucial, are not easily built or sustained. As a result, instructors often spend semesters or even years in the classroom with no barometer for effectiveness and change in their pedagogical approaches other than…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Program Implementation, Student Centered Curriculum, Universities
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Orlowski, Marietta; Lorson, Kevin; Lyon, Anna; Minoughan, Susan – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2013
The classroom teacher is a critical team member of a comprehensive school physical activity program and an activity-friendly school environment. Students spend more time in the classroom than in any other school setting or environment. Classrooms are busy places, and classroom teachers must make decisions about how to make the best use of their…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Instructional Materials, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, 2015
The Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) program, authorized by Congress in 2011, is designed to improve the quality of early learning and development programs for children from birth through age 5. This discretionary grant program is administered jointly by the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Federal Legislation
Sommo, Colleen; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2016
Nationally, community college graduation rates remain stubbornly low, despite strides made in access--and they are particularly so for low-income students, nontraditional students, and students who need to take developmental (remedial) courses. In 2014, three schools in Ohio--Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Cuyahoga Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Acceleration (Education), Associate Degrees, Two Year College Students
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Morrison, Julie Q.; English, Sarah Baker – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2012
This article describes a multiagency initiative to evaluate academic tutoring services by focusing on the processes that contribute to effective program implementation. Community-based tutoring service providers serving students in the Cincinnati Public Schools (OH) partnered to initiate a "Seal of Approval" process for promoting…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Accountability, Evidence, Program Implementation
Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, 2017
This Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) annual performance report for the year 2016 describes Ohio's accomplishments, lessons learned, challenges, and strategies Ohio will implement to address those challenges. When Ohio wrote its application for the Race to the Top: Early Learning Challenge Grant, its vision for early childhood…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, State Programs, Educational Quality, Accountability
Reform Support Network, 2014
Communicators create clear engagement strategies and compelling messages, relentlessly reaching out using the latest tools, tactics and techniques. But many communicators are not sure whether those efforts are penetrating or engaging key audiences, particularly with the fire hose of information flooding through emails and mainstream and social…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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