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Lewis, Kathryn Roots; Kordeliski, Amanda; Pennington, Cherity; Spangler, Timmie – Knowledge Quest, 2021
This article explores the process the Oklahoma State Department of Education went through to adopt the AASL Standards and the professional development opportunities the department and the Oklahoma School Librarians developed to teach their fellow school librarians about the National School Library Standards.
Descriptors: State Standards, School Libraries, Professional Development, Librarians
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Dolowitz, Annetta R.; Estis, Julie M.; O'Dwyer, Brian; Styron, Jennifer L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This chapter describes a series of international professional development workshops conducted in an online synchronous modality using team-based learning as an instructional strategy. The authors explore the potential of dynamic professional development training with today's technological tools as a natural evolution from traditional professional…
Descriptors: Seminars, Workshops, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning
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Harsch, Claudia; Seyferth, Sibylle; Larenas, Salomé Villa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
We report on research conducted during a language assessment literacy (LAL) project set up for employees at a university language centre. Teachers, students and an external accreditation body requested a revision of the end-of-course exams to increase comparability, transparency and alignment to course aims. We used a collaborative approach where…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, College Faculty, Coordinators, Researchers
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Yandell, John; Coles, Jane; Bryer, Theo – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
Every year since 2007, the Globe Theatre has run the "Playing Shakespeare" project, largely funded by Deutsche Bank. This has three main components: school-based workshops, CPD sessions for teachers and free performances for school students. From 2014 to 2016, we were commissioned to evaluate this project. In what follows, we reflect on…
Descriptors: Drama, Reflection, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
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Brabazon, Tara; Schulz, Sam – Gender and Education, 2020
Global neoliberalism is allowing manifold social inequalities to intensify under the 'fair' and neutral language of the market. On the eve of International Women's Day 2017, the statue "Fearless Girl" was installed facing Wall Street's iconic "Charging Bull," drawing to attention the ongoing gendered nature of these dynamics.…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
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Hokanson, Sarah Chobot; Grannan, Sharisse; Greenler, Robin; Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Campa, Henry, III; Goldberg, Bennett B. – Innovative Higher Education, 2019
Designers of professional development activities and programs within higher education generally believe workshop learning outcomes and learner-created materials are what graduate students and postdoctoral scholars value from participating in these activities. We created a new structure for online synchronous workshops that integrates active…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Workshops, Graduate Students
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Kelton, Molly L.; Saraniero, Patti – Journal of Museum Education, 2018
Museum partnerships can involve significant tensions, especially when these collaborations reach across institutions to blend disciplines such as art and mathematics. Rather than simply being obstacles to overcome, we suggest that tensions arising in multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary collaborations can be highly generative for collaborators,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Development
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Goodale, Timothy A. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
The focus of this article is on the evaluation and outcomes of a professional learning opportunity that focused on 13 current K-12 public school science educators in the United States. This teacher training concentrated on sustainability education that utilized marine sciences as a unifying concept. Findings from this training helped to identify…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Environmental Education, Marine Education, Oceanography
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Hart, Catherine P.; Nash, Fredrica M. – RTI International, 2020
In the spring of 2019, RTI implemented the All Hands on Deck program in three North Carolina counties. The program was funded by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction School Safety Grant, which was offered in response to a growing need for safer schools in the state. According to the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), 10.1% of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Safety, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Warner-Richter, Mallory; Hirilall, Ashley; Li, Winnie; Tout, Kathryn – Child Trends, 2018
This report summarizes findings from an implementation and outcomes study of the Tutoring Partnership. The Tutoring Partnership was a Saint Paul and Minneapolis network of 28 community-based programs that provided academic interventions through tutoring. The common goal was improving students' academic outcomes. The Tutoring Partnership, operated…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Tutoring, School Community Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Pitts, Stephanie E. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2016
The Soundplay project ran in four early years settings in Sheffield, UK, in 2014-15, using a series of music workshops to attempt to increase the music and language attainment of children aged two to four years. The associated research investigated the impact of the programme, using a combination of observation, music and language tracker tools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music Activities, Workshops
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Jensen, Ruth; Moller, Jorunn – Journal of Educational Change, 2013
International research documents a variety of approaches for fostering the professional development of principals. These studies mainly draw upon survey and interview data. Less attention has been paid to observing professional development processes. This article aims to examine how professional learning is played out empirically in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Data, Teaching Methods
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McConnell, Lindsey C.; Monroe, Martha C. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2012
Large distances and small budgets had made it challenging for Florida Project Learning Tree (PLT) to conduct in-person workshops with volunteer 4-H leaders to disseminate the PreK-8 guide. An online version of a PLT workshop was developed to overcome these barriers. Formative evaluation data suggested that the program effectively introduced PLT to…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Workshops, Professional Development, Volunteers
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Gary, Gretchen; Allred, Shorna; LoGiudice, Elizabeth – Journal of Extension, 2014
Education is an important tool to increase the capacity of local government officials for community flood adaptation. To address flood adaptation and post-flood stream management in municipalities, Cornell Cooperative Extension and collaborators developed an educational program to increase municipal officials' knowledge about how to work…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Local Government, Natural Disasters, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Patel, Nimisha; Franco, Suzanne; Miura, Yoko; Boyd, Brian – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
This paper examines professional development workshops focused on Connected Math, a particular curriculum utilized or being considered by the middle-school mathematics teachers involved in the study. The hope was that as teachers better understood the curriculum used in their classrooms, i.e., Connected Math, they would simultaneously deepen their…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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