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Yu, Julie; Sanderson, Bill W.; Fong, Jennifer; Wentworth, Laura – Educational Leadership, 2022
When San Francisco implemented a new policy to improve graduation rates and college enrollment, district officials realized their work was only beginning. San Francisco Unified School District revamped its college-ready graduation policy in 2009, hoping to increase the likelihood that students would graduate with the necessary courses to go to a…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, College Readiness, Graduation Rate, College Attendance
Nikula, Johannah; Buffington, Pamela; DePiper, Jill Neumayer; Louie, Josephine; Tierney-Fife, Peter – Educational Leadership, 2021
For professional learning to "stick," teachers need to connect what they learn to their practice--and particularly to their work with their current students. The authors describe a PD program they've developed for math teachers with emergent multilingual students (English language learners) in their classes. Teachers choose "focus…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers, Multilingualism
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Cuny, Casey – Educational Leadership, 2014
Casey Cuny was frustrated with the lack of depth in his high school English students' writing. He'd heard about Socratic seminars but was reluctant to try them until he saw them in action. He decided to conduct Socratic seminars with his students centered on the question, What is the value of life? In past years, student papers on this…
Descriptors: Seminars, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, High School Students