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Andrea M. James – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Family engagement is a major component in assisting student success and academic growth; however, within the inner city, it can be difficult to get families engaged due to many different factors. Schools can increase family engagement by giving families the knowledge to be successful. The purpose of this dissertation is to present how effective it…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Empowerment, Family Involvement, Parent Education
Tanisha Nicole Boone – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The present study utilized Stuffle beam's (2017) Context, Input, Process, and Product(CIPP) model of program evaluation, to evaluate the All Pro Dad program. The purpose of the evaluation was to determine whether All Pro Dad met the goal of the North Texas public-school district which was to increase involvement of fathers and father figures. The…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Program Evaluation, Fathers
Praska, Beth Arlene – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine data regarding the implementation of critical components of the Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework in Minnesota public secondary schools, defined as middle and high schools that service any combination of Grades 6-12. This study's mixed method design utilized secondary data collected from the…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Middle Schools, High Schools, Secondary Schools
Hudson, Tina Marlene – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Response to Intervention (RTI) has been one of the most significant developments in the history of educational reform, requiring a renewed focus on evidence-based instruction and data-driven decisions. However, the current use of RTI as a means of identifying students with SLD is highly variable across states, bringing to focus several issues that…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Administrator Attitudes
Sawyers, Darryl Lavell – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify and describe the implementation practices being used by school districts to notify and enroll parents into Supplemental Educational Services under No Child Left Behind. Parents participating in choice programs in the school districts of Savannah, Atlanta and Detroit participated in a survey…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Parent School Relationship, Program Implementation, School Districts
Nagy, Kerri Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Given expectations for higher standards teachers must find ways to improve family involvement and build a community atmosphere within the classroom. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the implementation of a family involvement program into a first grade classroom. Epstein's six types of parent involvement formed the theoretical…
Descriptors: Reading Failure, Parent Participation, Grade 1, Family Involvement
Hillman, Nadia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the programs, practices, and culture of a school that claims to be meeting the demands of globalization. A qualitative case study of an elementary school was used to extract a comprehensive description of the instructional practice, professional life, and perceived impact on the culture of a school that has…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Elementary Schools, Global Approach
Lacey LeBlanc – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Repeated reading is an effective intervention that has been demonstrated to remediate reading problems in children. The parent tutoring literature has shown that this intervention is effective in the home environment as well as the school environment. One primary difference between home-based and school-based interventions is that a consultant is…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Family Environment
Strohmyer, Karin A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The concepts of professional learning communities and organizational disciplines support staff development and leadership that lead to sustainable systems. Little research has examined the ability of rural schools to achieve sustainable systems. This quantitative design study considered the relationships between predictor variables of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervention, Staff Development, Leadership
Pennycuff, Lisa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation status of Response to Intervention (RtI) in the elementary schools (N = 35) in one urban school district in Virginia. The relationship between the implementation of the academic components of RtI, collective efficacy, parents' trust in schools, the number of referrals for special…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Program Effectiveness, Urban Schools, School Safety
Lin, Yi Man – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Project Approach has been applied to early childhood education in Taiwan since 1993. The purposes of this study were to explore how teachers of young children conduct the Project Approach, what challenges they have encountered and what support they may need. In addition, this study investigates teachers' implementation of the Project Approach…
Descriptors: School Activities, Early Childhood Education, Parent Participation, Prior Learning
Khaleghi, Farahnaz – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The deluge of early child development research over the past 20 years has sparked an unprecedented public interest in the first years of children's lives. Research indicates that quality early education promotes the overall development of a healthy child. The Desired Results System, a standards-based accountability initiative of the California…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Parent Participation
Gismondi, Brian C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Traditional parent-teacher conferences and student-led conferences are tools schools employ to convey student progress with parents. The student-led conference offers a valuable means for increasing student responsibility which allows students to take ownership in schooling, which in turn helped improve parent involvement and student motivation.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Participant Observation, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parent Participation
Morris, Dana Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined superintendents' or designees' perceptions in light of NCLB (2002) and to understand parental involvement through the lens of Epstein's Framework of Parent Involvement (1992, 1995, 2002). The central problem was that despite parental involvement legislation, implementation and effectiveness of policies, and programs varies…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Parent Participation, School Districts, Parent School Relationship