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Spies, Tracy; Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn; Bengochea, Alain; Falomir, Gloria Carcoba; Xu, Yunying – CATESOL Journal, 2021
Nevada has recently taken considerable steps to reform English learner (EL) education across the state with teacher development as a primary focus. Educational reform agendas necessitate that teachers not only rethink their practices but teach in novel ways. It has been argued that teacher development through graduate education and other…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Educational Change, Graduate Students, Theory Practice Relationship
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Bigg, Martin; Brooks, Ian; Clayton, William; Darwen, Jamie; Gough, Georgina; Hyland, Fiona; Longhurst, James; Tierney, Ash; Tweddell, Hannah; Walsh, Amy; Willmore, Chris – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
HEIs are well placed to engage with local communities, and can connect students with organisations through several pathways, such as volunteering opportunities, placements, internships, or projects. The University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE), the University of Bristol and their respective Students' Unions have been working in partnership…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Life Style, Universities, Student Unions
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Turner-King, Rachel – Research in Drama Education, 2018
This paper explores the relationship between notions of 'access' and 'hospitality' by focusing on two practice-led research interventions conducted in two regional arts venues in the culturally and ethnically diverse city of Coventry, UK. By conceptualising Warwick Arts Centre and The Belgrade Theatre as potential sites of hospitality, I consider…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Correlation, Cultural Pluralism, Interpersonal Relationship
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Maude, Alaric – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
This paper is a contribution to the debate on powerful knowledge in geography that began in a 2015 issue of IRGEE and was continued by Frances Slater and Norman Graves in 2016. It addresses some of the questions raised by Slater and Graves. First, it suggests an alternative way of describing and identifying powerful knowledge than the one in their…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Units of Study, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Subramanian, Vidya K. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2018
The Teach for India (TFI) programme, an important offshoot of the Teach for All/Teach for America global education network, began as a public-private partnership in 2009 in poorly functioning municipal schools in Pune and Mumbai. Like its American counterpart, the programme in India has similar ideas of reform and recruits college graduates and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Marttinen, Risto; Fredrick, Ray N., III. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2017
After-school physical activity programs are great opportunities to increase daily physical activity for adolescent youth in urban environments who often do not get the recommended amounts of physical activity needed for health benefits. Black and Hispanic youth in urban environments are particularly under-resourced in not just facilities but…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Health Education
Towle, Angela; Leahy, Kathleen – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
The Learning Exchange was established by the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1999 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). The challenge has been to create a shared space for learning exchanges between two very different communities: a research-intensive university and an inner city area most commonly depicted as a place of hopelessness.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, School Community Programs, Urban Areas
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Beale, Angela – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2016
This article was inspired by a belief in the need to connect physical education with community-based physical activity programming in minority communities. The initial steps of this reflective narrative were described in a previous article. This article describes a program called Project Guard: Make A Splash E.N.D. (End Needless Drowning), a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Responsibility, Physical Education, Physical Activities
Fritsch, Julie M. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2013
Agricultural education begins with hands-on classroom and laboratory instruction. Because agriculture is such a broad topic, schools typically tailor agriculture class offerings to match the interests of the student population, needs of nearby businesses and industry, or topics relevant to their state's standard assessments. Within most…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Low Achievement, Middle Schools, Charter Schools
Brabant, Margaret; Braid, Donald; Carriere, Armand – Metropolitan Universities, 2013
Respondents to our 2011 survey on the impact of Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) grants administered by HUD between 1994 and 2005 reported deep and lasting impacts on their respective institutions. These grants affected institutional structures, embedded community engagement within institutional cultures and academic curricula, and…
Descriptors: Grants, School Community Relationship, Outreach Programs, Outcome Measures
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McPherson, Elizabeth – Journal of Dance Education, 2010
"Building Bridges," describes the use of the "city as text" for high school students in their first experience of a college course. This article is timely, in that many of the classes and workshops that were held as part of the recent NDEO conference in New York City (June, 2009) accessed the city itself as the learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Urban Areas, Dance, Workshops
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Follins, Lourdes D.; Paler, Lisa K.; Nanin, Jose E. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This article describes the creation and implementation of a faculty interest group for historically underrepresented faculty at a large, urban community college in the Northeast. Faculty interest groups provide opportunities for faculty across disciplines to meet to explore common interests and share concerns and best practices. The faculty…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Group Dynamics, Minority Group Teachers, African American Teachers
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Amaro-Jimenez, Carla – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
Very large numbers of students for whom English is not their native language attend public school classrooms in the USA every year. It is estimated that there are currently about 5.3 million English learners in K-12 grades (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition 2011). While teacher preparation programmes are required to prepare…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Public Libraries, Second Language Learning, Service Learning
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Beckett, Linnea; Glass, Ronald David; Moreno, Ana Paulina – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
Where dominant models of urban school reform often regard immigrant communities as obstacles that must be managed or reduced, the two projects analyzed in this study ("Alianza" and the Project) regard the community as a powerful source of knowledge and as partners working towards educational improvement (Nygreen, 2009). This paper…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Popular Education, Empowerment, Educational Improvement
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Barker, Walter A.; Killian, Eric; Evans, William P. – Afterschool Matters, 2010
Young people in the U.S. are falling behind their peers in the rest of the developed world in science, technology, engineering, and math. The Program for International Student Assessment study, conducted every three years, ranked the U.S. 24th in math and science out of 29 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, After School Programs, Science Education, Urban Areas
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