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Sharon Stein – About Campus, 2024
Many students have expressed that they feel highly distressed by the state of the world they are inheriting. Extreme weather and wildfires around the globe, and increasingly sobering assessments about projected futures by researchers, activists, and global leaders have led to a growing consensus that the world is at a turning point when it comes…
Descriptors: Climate, College Students, Universities, Environmental Education
Henning, Gavin – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2018
In many ways, higher education has not changed in the nearly 1,000 years since the first university was founded in Bologna, Italy in 1088. Many courses still have professors or "masters" lecturing in front of students, with exams being reproduction of facts learned in lectures. But in other ways, higher education changes daily. A brief…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Osborne, Mark – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2021
Over recent years, innovative learning environments (ILEs) have become the default style of new-build educational architecture in New Zealand. While offering potential benefits, the implementation of ILEs represents a departure from established practice in most schools and therefore requires significant change leadership support in order to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
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Ailie McDowall; Dianna Hardy; Vincent Backhaus; Kyly Mills; Felecia Watkin Lui – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2023
Indigenous studies has come a long way. In this paper, we share some bold steps we have taken to develop a learning process that situates Indigenous people as a people of place, a people of knowledge and a people of science. This teaching disengages students from learning about Indigenous people as remnants of the past. We extend earlier…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Disciplines, Learning Processes, Indigenous Populations
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Kelley, Bruce – To Improve the Academy, 2018
We have been asked to describe One Thing that guides us as educational developers. For me, this is the strategic planning process described in Jim Collins' Good to Great (2001). Collins provides a model that helps leaders navigate through change to build effective and influential centers. This framework has allowed me to develop a successful…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Strategic Planning, Models, Change Strategies
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Rinkinen, Aija – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2018
Aija Riniken, senior ministerial advisor, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, shares her perspective on the future of basic education. She writes that her perspective is mainly from Finland's point of view because she has worked on many different levels of education in Finland and has witnessed many changes throughout the years. Here…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Alignment (Education), National Curriculum
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Brown, Narren J.; Hewitt, Gordon J.; Lin, Wei-Fang; Vater, Ruth – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This concluding chapter discusses the main challenges currently facing institutional research at small- and medium-sized colleges and describes how the field may evolve.
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Faculty Development, Educational Development, Educational Trends
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Díaz, Josefina; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Gutiérrez-Cardenas, Sandra-Milena; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Morfín, María; Álvarez, Miguel; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The policy of reorganising schools in pedagogical cycles has been restored little by little in the state schools of the city of Bogota. This reform began in the year 2008 in Codema College, which faced a number of challenges, personal as much as institutional. The reform depended upon the participation and engagement of the educational community…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
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Roper, Larry D. – Journal of College and Character, 2016
Higher education reform is a prominent topic among state and federal governments. However, the discussions regarding higher education are narrowly focused and not always inclusive of the voices of postsecondary leaders. Higher education officials must find approaches to ensure their voices are appropriately represented in these crucial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Educational Development, Educational Change
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Teagarden, Jim; Zabel, Robert; Kaff, Marilyn – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Dr. Carl Smith shares his reflections on a varied career that included many different roles and responsibilities but shared a focus on children with behavior disorders. Dr. Smith also provides insight into where he believes the field is heading and offers his advice to those just entering the field. Perhaps the lasting advice to all is to focus on…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Problems, Career Development, Special Education Teachers
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Kent, Daniel C. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2017
Today Singapore is the top or among the top performers in the world on a number of educational metrics. The country boasts the number one ranking in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the highly visible and regarded international assessment conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Chitiyo, Morgan; Muwana, Florence C. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2018
Formal special education in many southern African countries can be traced back to the early Christian missionary activities in the region. Like elsewhere in the world, the development of special education in this region has been marked with both challenges and accomplishments. The challenges and barriers to the development of special education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Educational Development, Success
Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2016
The Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) began an intensive examination of the U.S. Virgin Islands' education future and VIDE's role relative to the two school districts and communities in shaping that future. The Commissioner, Dr. Sharon Ann McCollum, and selected leaders representing VIDE, both districts, and several schools met for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Planning, Agency Role, Educational Development
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Paul Campbell – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2020
Purpose: This paper explores the role of professional collaboration and agency during the global COVID-19 pandemic and possible lessons for the future from the perspective of a teacher, leader and postgraduate researcher. Design/methodology/approach: This essay explores the complex role of collaboration and agency in responding to the challenges…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Barriers, Communities of Practice, COVID-19
Doyle, Daniela; Kim, Juli – Public Impact, 2019
The first IDEA Public Schools' campus opened in 2000, just miles from the US-Mexico border in Donna, Texas. Fast-forward nearly two decades, and 79 IDEA public charter schools serve approximately 45,000 students across six regions, and those students consistently outperform their peers statewide on a range of metrics from proficiency to graduation…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Development, School Districts
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