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Grantmakers for Education, 2011
The Grantmakers for Education (GFE) Institute attracted more than 60 grantmakers from national, corporate, community and family foundations, with interests in systems and programs from early learning through postsecondary completion. And while attendees arrived with diverse experiences and expertise in grantmaking to support policy change, they…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Best Practices
Ryan, David; Montgomery, Brenda – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016
The paper begins by identifying issues as to how initial teacher training and in-service training for teachers inadequately prepares them for teaching the pupils with special educational needs (SEN). The paper then provides a brief legislative background to SEN in the Northern Ireland context, before describing two elements of educational reform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies
Teachers' Perceptions of Effective School-Wide Programs and Strategies for English Language Learners
Téllez, Kip; Manthey, George – Learning Environments Research, 2015
Data suggest that teachers lack confidence in teaching English language learners (ELLs). Teachers' perceived shortcomings have been identified but little is known about why these perceptions exist or how they might be associated with broader measures of efficacy. We surveyed 578 Californian teachers of ELLs to explore the relations among teachers'…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, English (Second Language)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2016
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has set out to expand existing partnerships and form new alliances in order to take on the most pervasive challenges of our time: improving the health and well-being of everyone in America. It has formalized its commitment by bringing together its work under the thematic efforts of "Healthy Children,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Child Health, Well Being, Health Programs
Humphrey, S.; Robinson, S. – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
In this paper we report on a whole school literacy research project, Embedding Literacies in the KLA's (ELK). The starting point for this endeavour is the theory of knowledge development conceptualised within the sociology of education as the semantic wave (Maton, forthcoming). As discipline knowledge typically resides in the "high…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Teaching Guides
du Toit, Adeline – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Discusses the strategic management of knowledge assets for competitive advantage in enterprises. Presents an integrative, systematic approach that can be followed in order to improve the business value of the knowledge assets of an enterprise. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Business, Business Administration, Competition, Entrepreneurship
Barron, Kenneth E.; Hulleman, Chris S.; Inouye, R. Bryce; Hartka, Thomas A. – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
In our session, we showcase work from a researcher-practitioner partnership between James Madison University, the University of Virginia, and Harrisonburg City Public Schools that is focused on developing a continuous improvement process to translate social-psychological interventions into teaching practices that enhance motivation and learning.…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, Public Schools
Shearman, Donald; Rylands, Leanne; Coady, Carmel – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
A significant proportion of students enrolling in mathematical subjects designed for non-STEM majors in university courses have minimal mathematical skills and poor motivation. This combination of starting attributes often leads to failure in the first mathematical subject encountered. We have been implementing simple, alternative pedagogies in an…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Student Improvement, Improvement Programs
College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
On July 24 and 25, 2012, members of the Task Force on Admissions in the 21st Century gathered in Reston, Virginia, to discuss the progress made by the implementation team in addressing action items from the Task Force's Preserving the Dream of America 2008 report; the current environment for admission; and actions to be taken to further the task…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Advocacy, College Admission, Administrative Policy
Eastwood, Kenneth W. – 1991
In 1984 the State of New York mandated participation in the Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP) for elementary schools that ranked in the bottom 9 percent on statewide student competency exams. To discern the overall effectiveness of the program and identify why it appeared to succeed in some schools and fail in others, the changes in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Education
Adnum, Judy; Hingston, June – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
The College Assessment for Learning Program (CALP) was initiated in order to improve student learning outcomes and to strengthen professional conversations across three campuses. It was based on a backward mapping process developed earlier at one of the junior campuses with successful outcomes. Analysis of NAPLAN, School Certificate and Higher…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Improvement, Program Effectiveness, College Outcomes Assessment
Mompoint Gaillard, Pascale; Rajic, Višnja – Online Submission, 2014
Communities of practice as organisations of learning have developed different forms as: task-based, practice-based or knowledge based communities (Barab et al., 2004). The paper presents a case study of a successful community of practice developed under the umbrella of Council of Europe Pestalozzi programme for teacher development. The programme…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Virtual Classrooms, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Knapper, Christopher K. – 1979
The effectiveness of instructional development evaluation programs is assessed. It is suggested that although it is a basic tenet in instructional development that teaching improvement is closely linked to effective evaluation, it is ironical that most instructional development programs have themselves been evaluated only superficially, if at all.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Instruction, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development
Corsello, Maryann; Sharma, Anu; Jerabek, Angela – Grantee Submission, 2015
Building Assets Reducing Risks (BARR) is a social emotional model that achieves academic outcomes through combining use of real-time student data with proven relationship-building strategies and intensive teacher collaboration to prevent course failure. BARR is a recipient of US Department of Education "Investing in Innovation (i3)"…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Student Improvement, Improvement Programs, Information Utilization
Phillips, Don I. – 1983
This paper: (1) discusses why science and mathematics education are important; (2) outlines why a comprehensive improvement program is necessary; and (3) describes how North Carolina is attempting to improve science and mathematics education as related to teacher supply and quality, student enrollment and performance, curriculum and instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment