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Jamie Crosswhite – Community Literacy Journal, 2024
This article delves into an exploration of the transformative journey of integrating walking methodologies within the context of a Technical Writing in the Community service-learning course, which is offered at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) located in south Texas. These walking methods, founded on the principle of engaging the physical body…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Technical Writing, Service Learning, Physical Activities
Jones, Brian K. – Educational Leadership, 2018
Jones, an instructional coach, shares ideas for how to make changes in how PD sessions are offered to teachers. PD that empowers rather than bores teachers puts flexibility first, encourages teachers to be active within each session, and provides both sessions tied to specific school priorities and space for teachers to pursue many learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Participation, Motivation, Educational Methods
Fraser, James W.; Lefty, Lauren – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018
As recently as 1990, if a person wanted to become a public school teacher in the United States, he or she needed to attend an accredited university education program. Less than three decades later, the variety of routes into teaching is staggering. In "Teaching Teachers," education historians James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty look at…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Teacher Education
Berliner, David C. – Action in Teacher Education, 2020
I slowly developed the belief that sharing much of educational research with novice teachers was an error. To me, novice teachers appeared to have too little experience to adopt and adapt research to particular school sites and classrooms. I urge, therefore, that more of an apprenticeship in classroom life, and greater understanding of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Design, Educational Methods, Teacher Educators
Dimitrijevic, Ivan – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
Starting from Illich's identification of the compulsory schooling process with the rational initiation rite to the modern, free-market, society, the paper aims to detach the philosophical premises this expensive and unequal ritual is grounded in. After having referred to Van Gennep's conception of the rites of passage, we shall show that the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Methods, Educational Change, Systems Analysis
Annarino, Pauline – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2016
For more than a century, professionals, parents, deaf individuals, and students--who are involved in education have discussed the question: "How should deaf education change?" Today this question continues to dazzle and frustrate. All of us want deaf and hard of hearing students to have higher achievement across academic areas and to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Educational Methods, Educational Change
Kerr, Kathleen G.; Tweedy, James; Edwards, Keith E.; Kimmel, Dillon – About Campus, 2017
This article describes how the authors, determined to actualize their dedication to student learning, looked to American College Personnel Association (ACPA)'s seminal work from 1994, "The Student Learning Imperative," which redirected those who work in student affairs, where student services and development had traditionally been the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Student Personnel Services, Models
Zhao, Yong; Emler, Trina E.; Snethen, Anthony; Yin, Danqing – Teachers College Press, 2019
Discover how education innovations can produce astonishing results in student success both in and out of school. The educators featured in this book were motivated by the conviction that even the best status quo education was not serving current student needs. They responded with radical changes that tap into recent ideas about educational…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Student Centered Learning
Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2017
The Chicago International Charter School (CICS) Irving Park's middle school is one of 130 schools nationwide piloting the Summit Learning Program (SLP), developed--and offered entirely free--by Summit Public Schools, a high-performing charter network based in California. Summit's eight schools, two of them in Washington State, are known for an…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Models
Driscoll, David P. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
"Commitment and Common Sense" tells the inside story of how Massachusetts became a national model for education. Twelve years after the passage of the state's comprehensive education reform law in 1993, Bay State student scores rose to the top of "the nation's report card" (the National Assessment of Educational Progress) in…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Achievement Gains, State Standards, Scores
Mossman, Amy Patrick – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
Various experts and institutions, including the United Nations, have stressed the complexity of the 21st century's global sustainability challenges. Higher education institutions should be at the center of research and education to meet these challenges. However, these institutions also find themselves in crisis, in part due to the economic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Global Education, Global Approach
Biloveský, Vladimír; Djovcoš, Martin – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2016
Institutional translation and interpreting training has a long lasting tradition in Slovakia mainly thanks to such significant translation scholars as Anton Popovic, František Miko, Ján Vilikovský and many others. However the situation has changed after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the education needed to start adapting to the new market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Interpretive Skills, Traditionalism
EDUCAUSE, 2015
The student-centered school model of Epic Charter School in Oakland, California, framed around a hero's journey empowers middle school students with sense of unity and purpose in life, where they can feel part of a culture with a shared experience and with more opportunities to experiences growth and accomplishment. Design and engineering is front…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Models, Student Centered Learning, College Readiness
Neuville, Thomas – Excellence in Education Journal, 2017
The author of this opinion piece provides what he believes to be a definition of the present special education system at it's worst. Special education is described as a team of professionals gathered to plan for the individual. They assess, interpret, break down deficiencies into categories and divide those deficiencies to distribute among a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Change, Intervention, Value Judgment
Lundahl, Lisbeth – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
The concept of a Nordic model of education is sometimes used to refer to the considerable similarities of education reforms and systems of the five Nordic countries (i.e. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) during the second half of the 20th century--reforms that aimed at social justice, equality and cohesion not least by providing…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Practices, Educational Methods, Regional Characteristics