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Ola M. Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In an effort to meet the requirements of the many reform efforts facing schools, professional learning communities (PLCs) have been created and implemented by many schools as a valuable strategy to increase student achievement. The main focus of most PLCs is on the cultivation of learning, which includes teachers and administrators working…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience
Richard DuFour; Rebecca DuFour; Robert Eaker; Thomas W. Many; Mike Mattos; Anthony Muhammad – Solution Tree, 2024
25 years on, the PLC at Work® process continues to produce results across the United States and worldwide. In this fourth edition of the bestseller "Learning by Doing," the authors use updated research and time-tested knowledge to address current education challenges, from learning gaps exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic to the need to…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary Secondary Education, Teamwork, Coaching (Performance)
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Brooke Penny; Sarah Kosel Agnihotri; Victoria Tutag Lehr – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This study examined a change in delivery (in-person and virtual) for a pharmacy student-learning community within the context of ongoing program assessment during 2019-2023. First and second-year pharmacy students (n=145) reported their perceptions of the learning community's impact on academic success, professional development, and social…
Descriptors: Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education, Communities of Practice, Program Evaluation
Joshua Sinclair – Online Submission, 2025
This non-experimental, quantitative correlation study aimed to see if a correlation existed among variables of years of teaching experience and teacher leadership styles, burnout, school culture, and teachers' perception of school leadership. Transformational leadership provided the theoretical framework for this study. This study was significant…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Burnout, School Culture
Ward, Nichole Antwynette – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Few researchers have investigated what occurs inside charter schools with respect to teaching and learning. To address this gap in the literature, the researcher conducted a descriptive, single-case study to examine how teachers at charter schools use research-based instructional methods to increase student achievement. The site for this study is…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Charter Schools, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
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Jennifer Ahn – Learning Professional, 2024
Since professional learning is about shifting adult mindsets and behavior, it is work that frequently challenges assumptions, expectations, beliefs, instructional practices, and long-standing habits. To have meaningful and productive conversations about evaluation and data, educators must be equipped with effective practices and tools that allow…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Psychological Patterns, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness
Donald D. Rolle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to describe the perceptions of high school principals and teachers related to how inequitable distribution of federal and state educational funds between low- and high-income schools resulted in disparities in educational outcomes in two low socioeconomic status high schools in the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Principals, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Walker, Tamar – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students With Disabilities (SWD) typically underperform compared to their non-disabled peers; these gaps are often widened by poverty, race or ethnicity, and English language proficiency. Principals are often unprepared to meet their learning needs. This mixed methods study took place in the Westford Central School District, a pseudonym, a high…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Principals, Central Office Administrators, Minority Group Students
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Eroglu, Mehmet; Özbek, Ramazan – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The aim of the study is to develop a scale that measures teachers' perceptions about school characteristics that support professional development (PD). The 40-item pool was created for the scale to be developed by examining similar measurement tools and literature. According to expert opinions, a 32-item trial form was created to conduct. The data…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Participation, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development
DeWalt, Lora; Mayberry, Tammy – Educational Leadership, 2019
Realizing their coaching program was not having desired effects for teachers or for students' achievement, leaders in the Manor School District in Texas revamped the district's coaching program. They created two "communities" encompassing all coaches in the district (since district schools were each doing their own thing with regard to…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), School Districts, Program Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness
Usher, Beverly Lily – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research study used a qualitative descriptive design. Its purpose was to analyze high school teachers' descriptions of their experiences with metacognitive awareness, metacognitive regulation, one-on-one communication with students about classroom assessment and pedagogy. American psychologist John Flavell framed the theory of metacognition:…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Experience, Metacognition, Teacher Student Relationship
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Bengtson, Ed; Lasater, Kara; Albiladi, Waheeb – Education Leadership Review, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine administrators' use of data, their perceptions of data, and what their expectations were in terms of teacher use of data. In conjunction with this examination will be a closer look at the new Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) to determine the connections as well as the disconnections to…
Descriptors: Data Use, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Attitudes, Expectation
Herman, Joan L.; Wang, Jia; La Torre, Deborah; Epstein, Scott; Leon, Seth – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2020
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) was created in 2009 to support schools' implementation of rigorous college and career ready standards for English language arts (ELA). Combining evidence-based principles of professional development with a systematic design process, LDC helps teachers to embed literacy skill development throughout their…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Urban Schools, Skill Development, Professional Development
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Hudson, Marcia; Childs, Lauren; Carver, Cynthia L. – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
In this article the authors share their experience of Teacher Lab, a job-embedded form of professional learning that has been a critical addition to professional learning practice for nearly a decade in the Avondale School District in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Using a full-day released time format, Teacher Lab combines preobservation dialogue and…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Professional Development, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Surveys
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Ambler, Trudy Belinda – Professional Development in Education, 2016
Teachers are an important influence on students' learning, and therefore the opportunity for teachers to learn and develop is something of interest to educators internationally. This article reports on a research project involving six primary school teachers who participated in one-on-one and small group interviews to explore the opportunities for…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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