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Katie Koo; Krishna Bista; Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This article discusses various ways for student affairs professionals, faculty, educators, and policymakers to contribute to the personal, academic, and professional development of international graduate students in the U.S. higher education within their functional areas and their expertise. By highlighting the culturally sensitive support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
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Elaine Lin Wang; Heather L. Schwartz; Monica Mean; Laura Stelitano; Benjamin K. Master; Fatih Unlu; Jonathan Schweig; Louis T. Mariano; Jessie Coe; Brian Phillips – RAND Corporation, 2024
School principals are critical to students' academic achievement, second only to teachers. They are the primary agents of change in their schools, fostering supportive learning environments that enhance student learning and teacher effectiveness. Moreover, they often design and oversee the initiatives and hiring to sustain the positive changes…
Descriptors: Management Development, Coaching (Performance), Program Effectiveness, Professional Development
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Bartley, Hayden; McKay, Cathy – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
The focus of this article is to offer tips for physical education teachers to develop and grow professionally. The six tips provided are not listed in order of importance, nor are they meant to be an exhaustive list. Instead, tips for enhancing professional development practices within the physical education profession are categorized based on…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Informal Education, Professional Development
Education Resource Strategies, 2023
Developing schedules is one of the most challenging undertakings that school and district leaders do every year. It's also one of the most important. School schedules often have significant inefficiencies that impact student experiences and outcomes, like course offerings that don't align with student needs; mismatches in resources across schools;…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Resources, Budgets, School Schedules
Lauren Peisach; Gerardo Silva-Padrón – Education Commission of the States, 2024
Every year, State of the State addresses offer time for new and incumbent governors to outline policy priorities and celebrate state accomplishments. Since 2005, we've tracked, analyzed and identified education policy trends in governors' State of the State addresses to help you understand trending education issues across states. This year's…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, State Government, State Programs, Educational Policy
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Foster, Elizabeth – Learning Professional, 2021
The school principal has long been recognized as a critical driver for school improvement and student success, but new research supported by The Wallace Foundation has found that principals have an even greater impact than previously stated. A synthesis of two decades of studies builds on previous research about how principals impact student…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Public Schools, Administrator Characteristics
Weyer, Matt; Dell'Erba, Mary – Education Commission of the States, 2022
In collaboration with the Arts Education Partnership, Education Commission of the States is turning its attention to STEAM education (adding the "A" for arts), which can promote a more comprehensive approach and provide state policymakers with more policy levers. Several states have already begun implementing STEAM education and are…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, State Policy, Educational Policy
McREL International, 2019
Paul Gausman, superintendent of the Sioux City, Iowa, school district, is a fan of his state's school reform plan. But when he realized in 2015 that a piece was missing, he did not just fire off an email and move on. He did what effective leaders do: assembled a team to push reality in the direction he thought it needed to go. McREL had already…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Leadership, Educational Change, School Districts
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Foster, Elizabeth – Learning Professional, 2022
Research has been at the heart of Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning since they were first conceptualized and shared with the field in the 1990s. The standards are built on a decades-long foundation of research literature that describes the ways in which professional learning can improve educator knowledge, skills, and mindsets…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Standards, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Research
Lang, Chad – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Schools are pivoting to rebound from the negative effects the COVID-19 pandemic created for student development, academic achievement, and school culture. As all school constituencies collaborate to reinstitute normalcy, support student development, and maximize academic achievement, extracurricular activities may become more essential than ever.…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Student Development, COVID-19, Pandemics
Juan D’Brot; W. Chris Brandt – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
In today's educational landscape, state and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) often experience challenges connecting large-scale accountability data with actual school improvement initiatives. These challenges tend to be rooted in incoherent design and use of data systems for continuous improvement. As we aim to support SEAs in…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Data Collection, State Departments of Education, School Districts
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Vespia, Kristin M.; Naufel, Karen Z.; Rudmann, Jerry; Van Kirk, Jaye F.; Briihl, Deborah; Young, Jason – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
The Summit on the National Assessment of Psychology was held on June 2016 to chart a path for assessing student achievement of the goals of the undergraduate psychology major. Our subcommittee was charged with identifying evaluation strategies and tools for students' professional development, which included applying psychology to various careers;…
Descriptors: Psychology, Majors (Students), Employment Opportunities, Undergraduate Students
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
Most districts help teachers use data to improve student learning, often supporting this effort with federal funds. But many teachers feel unprepared to use student data to inform their instruction -- referred to as data-driven instruction (DDI) -- and there is little evidence of whether it improves student achievement. One hundred and two…
Descriptors: Data Use, Instruction, Academic Achievement, Professional Development
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Tran, Henry; Smith, Douglas A. – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
This paper presents an empirically grounded conceptual model that positions the principal as the talent developer, who when provided mentorship on how to strategically scaffold their teachers, will improve their own self-efficacy and competencies to provide better administrative support. Not only will this mentorship decrease their feelings of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Campoli, Ayana K.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Preparation and professional development can help principals be more effective leaders, but little research has examined what specific approaches are most useful. A study of 462 California principals and the teachers and students in their schools shows that high-quality preservice preparation for principals is associated with stronger teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Education
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