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Direct linkBrown, Chris, Ed.; Malin, Joel R., Ed. – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022
Across many countries, national, federal and district level governments are increasingly pursuing approaches to school improvement that seek to achieve so-called 'bottom-up' change. That is, improvements to teaching and learning that are generated by teachers, and subsequently shared horizontally and vertically within educational systems. Often…
Descriptors: Guides, Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement
Simone White, Editor; Jayne Downey, Editor; Melyssa Fuqua, Editor – Springer, 2024
This book brings together the two fields of 'educational leadership' and 'rurality' and builds on the growing field of inquiry into the significance of 'adding the rural' to all aspects of education. It explores the vibrancy and variety of opportunities and challenges that are met by rural education leaders and researchers from two particular…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Barriers
Quintero, Esther, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
"Teaching in Context" provides new evidence from a range of leading scholars showing that teachers become more effective when they work in organizations that support them in comprehensive and coordinated ways. The studies featured in the book suggest an alternative approach to enhancing teacher quality: creating conditions and school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Improvement
Download full textDonley, Jan – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2019
The Center on Innovations in Learning (CIL) is a national content center established to work with regional comprehensive centers and state education agencies (SEA) to build SEAs' capacity to stimulate, select, implement, and scale up innovation in learning. This report is a collection of evidence ratings and practice briefs. The categories for…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Capacity Building, Educational Practices, Best Practices
Jochim, Ashley, Ed.; Gross, Betheny, Ed. – Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2016
"The SEA of the Future" is an education publication series examining how state education agencies can shift from a compliance to a performance-oriented organization through strategic planning and performance management tools to meet growing demands to support education reform while improving productivity. This volume, the sixth in the…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Finnigan, Kara S., Ed.; Daly, Alan J., Ed. – Springer, 2014
This book includes a set of rigorous and accessible studies on the topic of "research evidence" from a variety of levels and educational vantage points. It also provides the reader with thoughtful commentaries from leading thinkers in the field. The complex process of acquiring, interpreting, and using research evidence makes for a rich…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Districts, Research Utilization, Evidence Based Practice
Campbell, David E., Ed.; Levinson, Meira, Ed.; Hess, Frederick M., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
"By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past." So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States. They argue that the current period of "creative destruction"--when schools are…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Evidence Based Practice, Knowledge Level
Boudett, Kathryn Parker, Ed.; City, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Murnane, Richard J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning" presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' abilities to capture…
Descriptors: Guides, Information Utilization, Student Evaluation, Educational Improvement
Doll, Beth, Ed.; Pfohl, William, Ed.; Yoon, Jina S., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
The "Handbook of Youth Prevention Science" describes current research and practice in mental health preventive interventions for youth. Traditional prevention research focused on preventing specific disorders, e.g. substance abuse, conduct disorders, or criminality. This produced "silos" of isolated knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Intervention
