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Direct linkEllerbrock, Cheryl R. – Urban Education, 2012
This qualitative multisite case study examined how three high schools within one large urban district supported ninth-grade students' needs through interdisciplinary teaming. Data collected during the 2006-2007 school year included observations, interviews, and archival evidence of 67 participants. Findings suggest teacher communication as a…
Descriptors: Student Needs, High School Students, School Personnel, Grade 9
Burke, Daniel L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Despite promising research findings and enthusiastic participants, multiyear teacher/student relationships remain uncommon in U.S. schools. The multiyear approach offers great potential for summertime learning. Ambitious pilot programs in Attleboro and Worcester, Massachusetts, and West Bloomfield, Minnesota, are briefly described. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, House Plan, Multigraded Classes, Pilot Projects
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2007
Having developed a technology-based teaching unit on weather that appeared to work well for middle school students, Nancy Butler Songer and her colleagues at the University of Michigan decided in the late 1990s to take the next logical step in their research program: They scaled up. This article discusses lessons learned by several faculty…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle Schools, College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedWhitaker, Kathryn S. – Journal of School Leadership, 1998
Presents results of a school-restructuring case study involving a high school participating in the Coalition of Essential Schools and RE: Learning Project. Nine common coalition principles were implemented, primarily within the school-within-a-school program. Barriers included staff jealousy, political controversy, decreased staff development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Communication Problems, High Schools
Green, Daniel G. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Searching for ways to help students feel more connected to one another and to the school community as a whole, a junior high school implemented the social house approach. Social houses divide students into multiple social units, rather than into separate academic entities. Each unit has its own identity and theme.The different groups mix during…
Descriptors: House Plan, Junior High Schools, Junior High School Students, Student School Relationship
Peer reviewedHoward, Elizabeth – American Secondary Education, 1997
This case study reflects block scheduling's effects on advanced-placement mathematics courses of one veteran teacher tracking personal progress since 1989. Block scheduling began in 1994, creating problems for the teacher, whose resistance to the reform was based on declining advanced-placement scores. Teacher attitude and insufficient…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Block Scheduling, Case Studies, High Schools
