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Jocelyn Pickford; Kate Poteet – State Education Standard, 2024
The policy landscape around curriculum selection and implementation is thorny: the federal government cannot mandate any state or local curricula, state policy varies widely, and local schools and districts often lack the capacity to support and sustain detailed reviews of materials and ongoing teacher training in quality curricula. Cultural and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
Kelly, Kathy; Marshall, Nicole; Baker-Sheridan, Amy – Learning Professional, 2022
State education leaders and entities play vital, if not always highly visible, roles in establishing high-quality professional learning. Through legislation and regulations, resource allocation, leadership support, and more, they establish a vision of professional learning and support its implementation in districts and schools. In particular,…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Standards, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
Aryal, Bhushan; Bluemel, Brody; Nurse, A. Myrna – Composition Forum, 2022
This approach article describes the structure of the new Composition and Speech Program at Delaware State University, particularly in light of the use of discourse-based interview (DBI) methodology in the development process of the program. The program includes a 4-course sequence--three 2-credit hour composition courses and one 3-credit hour…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Improvement, Interviews, Professional Development
Nidal Saleh Abuasi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) addresses efforts and activities aimed at implementing standards-based grading (SBG) at the Islamic Academy of Delaware (IAD). In the year 2018-2019, the school began efforts to transition to standards-based learning (SBL) through changes of curricula, delivering SBL professional development, introducing…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Schools, Educational Change, Technology Integration
Monica Shire – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) addresses the issue related to children's screen time and indoor sedentary behavior. Research shows that young children need to have time outside in nature to ensure holistic development in the twenty-first century. The overarching goal of this work is to reduce the extent of children's indoor sedentary…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Universities
Hughes, Katherine L.; Miller, Trey; Reese, Kelly – Grantee Submission, 2021
This report from the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Research Network Lead team provides final results from an evaluability assessment of CTE programs that feasibly could be evaluated using a rigorous experimental design. Evaluability assessments (also called feasibility studies) are used in education and other fields, such as international…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Vocational Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Research
Stauffer, Christina; Kimmel, Dillon – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2019
Successful implementation of a Residential Curriculum Model is dependent on the preparedness and investment of professional staff to design the learning experiences taking place in residence halls. Recent literature urges student affairs educators to embrace approaches which contribute to student learning beyond the classroom. This concept has…
Descriptors: College Housing, Resident Advisers, College Students, Curriculum Development
Hellman, Daniel S. – Music Educators Journal, 2020
Policy capacity in music education can be enhanced through understanding the policy-making process and state governmental policy. Three examples of engagement in state-level policy action are used to explore agency, negotiation, and visioning as important dispositions for advancing music education policy goals. First, influencing state-level…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, State Policy
Michael Valenti – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study addresses the inadequacies of the traditional ninth-grade science curriculum at The Charter School of Wilmington (CSW) and proposes a focused initiative to enhance the curriculum's relevance and effectiveness. The current Integrated Science & Research curriculum lacks socioscientific inquiry, neglecting to incorporate social issues…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, High School Teachers, Grade 9
Darlene F. Winnington – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This mixed methods study at Delaware Technical Community College documented a turbulent time in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Student pass rates in the spring 2019 and spring 2020 semesters were analyzed using a paired t-test. The null hypothesis, P1 = P2, was rejected, at [alpha] = 0.05 level of significance. Pass rates were…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, COVID-19, Pandemics
Dwyer, Patricia M. – Liberal Education, 2017
It is notoriously difficult to change a core curriculum. As credit hours and course requirements are revised, politics quickly come into play and turf battles arise to create obstacles. The author writes that, in her experience, there are two default approaches to curricular change. The first is simply to "tweak" an existing…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Kaufman, Julia H.; Doan, Sy; Fernandez, Maria-Paz – RAND Corporation, 2021
Much research has noted the misalignment between kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) academic standards and curriculum materials used in classrooms. Many states and education organizations have been pushing for greater use of standards-aligned curriculum, especially during the past several years. In this report, the authors share results…
Descriptors: Standards, Alignment (Education), Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
Steven Keyser Skolfield – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Saint Edmond's Academy is a small, independent, Catholic school in Wilmington, Delaware. Students in Grades 4 to 7 are falling below their peers in other independent schools on standardized tests in mathematics, specifically the Educational Advisory Company Comprehensive Testing Program assessment. Within the scope of this work, my goal was to…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Small Schools, Grade 4
Scanlon Maramante, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this Executive Position Paper project was to develop educational resources to support the teaching of nature of science topics to undergraduate students at Delaware Technical Community College. The investigation was driven by two exploratory projects and a review of the literature. The first exploratory project examined the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Two Year College Students, Textbooks
Grusenmeyer, Linda Huey – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines the personal and curricular resources available to Delaware's elementary teachers during a time of innovative curriculum change, i.e., their knowledge, goals and beliefs regarding elementary engineering curriculum and the pedagogical support to teach two Science and Engineering Practices provided by science teaching materials.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Curriculum Development