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Linda F. Nathan; Taarini Goyal; Evonne Alvarez – Phi Delta Kappan, 2025
Providing professional development to busy principals is an ongoing challenge for many school districts. Lynn Public Schools in Massachusetts and the nonprofit Center for Artistry and Scholarship (CAS) in Boston partnered to provide professional development to 16 principals in the district. Linda F. Nathan, Taarini Goyal, and Evonne Alvarez…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Coaching (Performance)
Katie Novak; Helene Paroff – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
The 42 school districts participating in the state of Washington's Inclusionary Practices Project achieved a significant 12.8% increase in inclusion in the least restrictive environment (LRE 1, or in general education for 80-100% of the school day) over four years, surpassing the state average increase of 6.8%. Katie Novak and Helene Paroff…
Descriptors: School Districts, Inclusion, Program Effectiveness, Educational Environment
Ansary, Nadia S.; Elias, Maurice J.; Greene, Michael B.; Green, Stuart – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The authors quantify and unpack the prevalence and effects of bullying on children and adolescents before prescribing provisos for schools to consider when planning preventive and responsive approaches to bullying.
Descriptors: Bullying, Children, Adolescents, Prevention
Ingersoll, Richard M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Induction support programs for beginning teachers is an education reform whose time has come. The national data indicate that over the past couple of decades the number of beginning teachers has ballooned in the U.S. Simultaneously, there has been a large increase in the number of states, districts, and schools offering induction programs.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Rutherford, Angela S.; Hillmer, Tamara; Parker, Ashley – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Tunica County, Mississippi, in the heart of the delta, has been home to stagnant academic achievement even as federal and state funds increased. A teacher-focused professional development program through the University of Mississippi helped yield higher scores and national recognition for an elementary school. It also revealed some learnings:…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Professional Development, Academic Achievement, Poverty
Fields, Erica T.; Levy, Abigail Jurist; Karelitz, Tzur M.; Martinez-Gudapakkam, Audrey; Jablonski, Erica – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Data from a recent study show that investing in science teachers' professional growth and teaching ability is a wise choice. However, the professional development must have the right content (the science discipline that teachers are actually teaching), at the right time (when they are assigned to teach that science discipline), and in a stable…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Science Teachers, Performance Factors, Best Practices
Guskey, Thomas R.; Yoon, Kwang Suk – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Scholars from the American Institutes for Research analyzed findings from over 1,300 studies that potentially address the effect of professional development on student learning outcomes. The project was sponsored by the Regional Education Laboratory-Southwest (RELSW) and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Professional Development, Elementary School Students
Murray, Christine E.; Grant, Gerald; Swaminathan, Raji – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Although Rochester, New York, is a pioneer in teacher reform, change has been painfully slow. Pockets of success are not reflected in district statistics. The 1987 reforms directed at teachers were not far-reaching enough to ensure improved test scores, given continuing problems of large class sizes, crowded schools, students' increasing poverty,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness
Chokshi, Sonal; Fernandez, Clea – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Most readers of the Kappan will know that lesson study is a Japanese approach to teacher professional development that has recently become popular in the U.S. Indeed, lesson study activity has been spreading rapidly for several years and continues to proliferate today. However, to date, most of the discussion and research about U.S.-based lesson…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Change
Spalding, Elizabeth – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
The New Standards Project, attempting to create an assessment system comprised of performance exams, portfolios and projects, may not have fulfilled its promise to create a national system of tests worth teaching to. However, NSP did deliver high- quality professional-development opportunities for hundreds of teachers across the nation. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 4