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Elham Kazemi; Jessica Calabrese; Teresa Lind; Becca Lewis; Alison Fox Resnick; Lynsey K. Gibbons – Harvard Education Press, 2024
A blueprint for structuring the school environment around teacher learning and collaboration as a foundation for equitable learning and student engagement. In "Learning Together," Elham Kazemi, Jessica Calabrese, Teresa Lind, Becca Lewis, Alison Fox Resnick, and Lynsey K. Gibbons share findings from their decade of experience in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Elementary School Teachers, Cooperative Learning
Gutierrez, Akira S.; Krachman, Sara B.; Buckley, Katie H. – Transforming Education, 2019
Grounding research-practice partnerships in educators' expertise can offer us insight into innovative approaches that schools are using to foster student SEL. Our efforts in facilitating the Boston Charter Research Collaborative (BCRC) educator convenings align with the Aspen SEAD recommendations for forging strong, mutually-beneficial…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Partnerships in Education, Charter Schools
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Margolis, Jason; Durbin, Rebecca; Doring, Anne – Professional Development in Education, 2017
With a continuing disconnect between structural changes to the work of teaching and the work of teachers engaged with students in classrooms, this paper addresses a growing need to attend to the way teacher professional development (TPD) is enacted in today's schools. Specifically, drawing from theories of teacher learning and numerous models of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Role, Learning Theories
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Corrigan, Joe – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
This paper provides insight into distributed leadership by contrasting the oppositional messages found in the literature, and by examining differences in the rhetoric and reality associated with its application. Specifically, the treatment of power and accountability within the distributed leadership theoretical framework is difficult to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Power Structure, Accountability
Mintrop, Rick – Harvard Education Press, 2016
At the heart of the effort to enact and scale up successful school reforms is the need for more robust links between research and practice. One promising approach is design development, a methodology widely used in other fields and only recently adapted to education, which offers a disciplined process for identifying practical problems, assessing…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Case Studies, Research and Development
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Lattuca, Patrick – Educational Forum, 2012
Many individuals enter administration not fully prepared for their roles. This is because many preparatory programs have persistent weaknesses in the linkage between theory and practice, are irrelevant and grossly inadequate for the current responsibilities of the principalship, and overlook teaching the social realities of administrative roles.…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Leadership Effectiveness, Principals, Administrator Education
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Fisher, Troyce – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
In her role with the School Administrators of Iowa leading Iowa's leadership grant from The Wallace Foundation, the author works with a coalition of individuals and groups striving to implement a cohesive leadership system for school leaders. Efforts to create a cohesive leadership system in Iowa for the past nine years have resulted in many…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Leadership, Administrator Evaluation, Educational Theories
Noya, Gladys R. Capella, Ed.; Geismar, Kathryn, Ed.; Nicoleau, Guitele, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 1995
This volume brings together the expert and timely writings of educational practitioners and researchers struggling to reform their classrooms to reach and teach diverse student populations. The contributors describe the importance of bringing one's own identity, culture, and history to discussions with disenfranchised communities. This book brings…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Change, Student Diversity, Transformative Learning
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2008
"Focus on Basics" is a publication of the U.S. Division of World Education, Inc. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to connecting research…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Patients
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Battersby, David – Educational Management and Administration, 1987
This essay challenges the dominant role of theory in educational administration, especially the notion that practitioners are solely dependent on elitist theory generators to solve pragmatic problems. Developers and consumers must be brought together to explore craft theory and authoritative explanation grounded in concrete experience. Includes…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Administration, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stout, Robert – Issues in Education, 1986
Systematic research into values and action is essential for school administrators. This review of leadership literature establishes morality as a primary exchange currency in school settings and shows that executives act on their values. In action, executives' values influence others' values and important organizational outcomes. Contains 57…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics, Leadership Responsibility
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White, Richard T. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1992
Discusses changes in educational research methods over recent decades. Explores changing views of teaching and learning and what the changes mean for assessment and the content and delivery of the curriculum. Concludes that, to be effective, educational research must be relevant to education and perceived as such by educators. (SG)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Research Utilization
Yarbrough, Karen – 2003
This report is the second of a series exploring implementation of best practices in programs serving young children and families, and focuses on the uses and benefits of developing and using a logic model in programs serving young children and families. A logic model is described as providing a way to clearly articulate the program's theory of…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Change Strategies, Early Intervention, Models
1999
This document presents knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are needed for achieving and practicing the competencies listed in Addiction Counseling Competencies, as written by the National Curriculum Committee of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Program. The document is intended to provide guidance for the professional treatment of…
Descriptors: Addiction, Competence, Counseling, Counseling Techniques
Levin, James; Wyckoff, John – Engineering Education, 1988
Analyzes five intellective and nine non-intellective variables to develop mathematical models to predict freshman success and persistence. Lists and describes the variables. Explores the model's attempts in predicting grade point average and chance of success in an engineering school. (MVL)
Descriptors: Achievement, College Science, Engineering, Engineering Education
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