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Petrone, Robert – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
This interview highlights and extends Dr. Barbara Rogoff's keynote address at the 2019 annual convention. Specifically, in the interview, Dr. Rogoff discusses her framework for learning, Learning by Observing and Pitching In, as well as other aspects of learning, including notions of childhood, age-based social ordering, and conflict as an aspect…
Descriptors: Interviews, Conferences (Gatherings), Learning Processes, Age Differences
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2015
In this webinar, Dr. Carol Tomlinson of the University of Virginia presented the research base supporting the practice of differentiation and described the characteristics of effective differentiation. She led a discussion of how quality preparation can build and strengthen teachers' knowledge and skills in implementing differentiated instruction…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction, Teacher Competencies, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Jones, Jerome B. – Principal, 1981
Jerome B. Jones, superintendent in Providence (Rhode Island), explains why a return to K-8 grade organization may solve this city's declining enrollment and other educational problems. (JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Program Divisions
Cochran-Smith, Marilyn – Bank Street College of Education, 2006
Teacher shortages, like the one schools face today, are not new. Periodically over the last 50 years there were fewer teachers available than were needed, and the response was primarily to step up recruitment efforts and issue temporary teaching credentials to those without qualifications. Three things are new however: (1) The requirement that…
Descriptors: Poverty, Teacher Persistence, Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness

Feld, Marcia Marker – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Case study from the Providence, Rhode Island School District demonstrates how an outside planning group acted as the instrument for organizational change, while the superintendent provided the impetus for change. Reveals how internal and external factors influence decision making. (APM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change

Reigeluth, Charles M. – 1983
Some of the justifiable criticisms of our educational system are due to the inadequacy of the current educational structure for our information society, and the inability of the current system to motivate students to learn. An alternative structure would involve the use of teachers as educational guides, with parents choosing a guide based on…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Consumer Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Innovation
Rydeen, James E. – American School Board Journal, 1993
School design must reflect deep-seated changes in educational practices such as using outcome-based education, reorganizing traditional grade structures, grouping students in "houses," and mainstreaming handicapped children. Describes designs for five school buildings that are intended to enhance and undergird what goes on in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education

Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Epstein, Joyce L. – Elementary School Journal, 1993
Summarizes research on middle level schools and students that contributes to ongoing debates concerning grade span, school size, grouping of students, departmentalization, curriculum, instruction, advisory groups, interdisciplinary teaming, school-transition activities, extra-help programs, and student evaluation practices in the middle grades.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Adolescents, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development