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Lieberman, Abbie – New America, 2019
In 2010, Illinois passed legislation making significant changes to its principal preparation and licensure policies. With the goal of improving student outcomes and closing achievement gaps, the state updated standards for principal preparation programs with a focus on instructional leadership. Illinois's reforms were ambitious, requiring all…
Descriptors: Principals, Management Development, Preschool Education, Administrator Qualifications
Lieberman, Abbie – New America, 2019
This paper explores Illinois's shift from a general administrative license, called a "Type 75" license, to a "PK-12 Principal Endorsement." It includes both a history of the reform efforts and a look at how implementation has fared nearly a decade after the legislation was signed into law. It also offers lessons and…
Descriptors: Principals, Management Development, Preschool Education, Administrator Qualifications
Gahungu, Athanase – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
Two years after the State of Illinois enacted an extensive non-exclusionary discipline reform in schools, 322 key discipline gatekeepers were surveyed about the extent and impact of the new state policy. The results showed that several core provisions of the reform had not been fully implemented or addressed through professional development.…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, Program Implementation, Faculty Development
Hunt, Erika L., Ed.; Hood, Lisa, Ed.; Haller, Alicia M., Ed.; Kincaid, Maureen, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2019
Providing an in-depth look at the processes, pitfalls, and successes that can emerge from major education reform efforts at the state level, this volume covers the full policy change cycle in the development and transformation of the Illinois principal preparation program. Offering perspectives from the major stakeholder groups involved in…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, State Policy, Educational Policy
Gahungu, Athanase – Online Submission, 2019
Two years after the State of Illinois enacted an extensive non-exclusionary discipline reform in schools, 322 key discipline gatekeepers in schools were surveyed about the extent and impact of its implementation. The results showed that a number of core provisions of the reform had not been fully implemented or addressed through professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Zero Tolerance Policy, Educational Change, Suspension
Tashanna Gillenwater-Catron – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Physical education (PE) programs provide learning experiences designed to fulfill developmental and behavioral needs of the whole child. In the state of Illinois and across the country, however, student-centered PE programs are being limited or eliminated. Illinois laws reduced the requirements of PE and gave school district administrators the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Knowledge Level, State Standards
Raben, Kasandra; Brogan, Justin; Dunham, Mardis; Bloomdahl, Susana Contreras – Exceptionality Education International, 2019
Response to intervention (RTI) is used as a prerequisite to referring children for special education eligibility for learning disabilities (LD). RTI provides schools with a framework for helping students with learning challenges. In the United States, while the number of students receiving services through RTI has remained consistent, the overall…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Eligibility, Special Education, Referral
Nugent, Sean M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
How educational leaders initiate and sustain change is often hotly debated by those inside and outside of the system. Given the many reform initiatives of the past 30 years, and the resulting changes public educators have made lurching from initiative to initiative, one must ask if public education has truly improved. The answer to why public…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Implementation, Consortia, Educational Change
Hackmann, Donald G.; Malin, Joel R.; Fuller Hamilton, Asia N.; O'Donnell, Laura – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2019
Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs), an effective strategy to promote students' college and career readiness, are increasingly used in US school systems as a mechanism to encourage students' career exploration and identification of career goals. After describing features of ILPs, we provide an example of the ILP process developed and implemented…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Individualized Instruction, Career Readiness, College Readiness
Dodson, Richard L. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2017
This research examines how public school principals in eight U.S. states perceive their teacher evaluation systems, which are based on Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching (FfT). States were selected to represent high, middle, and low scorers in the annual "Education Week" "Quality Counts" report (Education Week, 2016).…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Surveys
Stewart, Molly S.; Good, Annalee G. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Information and promotional marketing play central but complex roles in market-based educational programs. This in-depth qualitative study examines these complexities using the case of Supplemental Educational Services, a parental choice program providing federally funded tutoring to low-income students in K-12 public schools. Examining the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Public Schools, Focus Groups
Olson, Jennifer D.; Rao, Arthi B. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
The edTPA, a national performance assessment for teacher candidates, has seen rapid adoption across the country since its development in 2009. Against the national backdrop of high stakes testing and accountability, the edTPA was developed to be an indicator of teachers' readiness to teach. The varying perspectives and responses to edTPA in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, High Stakes Tests, Preservice Teachers
Mundschenk, Nancy A.; Fuchs, Wendy W. – SRATE Journal, 2016
Models of response to intervention (RtI) are being widely implemented in schools across the country in order to increase effective teaching and remove barriers to student learning. The implementation of RtI is greatly facilitated when teachers and staff see themselves as a professional learning community (PLC). This article begins with an…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Success, Sustainability, Response to Intervention
Early Learning Challenge Technical Assistance, 2016
This resource was prepared in response to a request from a Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) State for information about the Transformation Zones that 10 RTT-ELC States had included as key projects in their RTT-ELC plans. This information will be helpful to other States as they consider how to continue to increase the quality of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Spina, Nancy; Buckley, Phillip; Puchner, Laurel – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2014
This study examines the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of administrators and teachers in a Southwestern Illinois School District regarding the recent reforms in teacher performance evaluation. This study uses a qualitative approach and provides data from individual and focus group interviews to determine the extent to which the district is…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change