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Walsh, Mary E.; Adams, Shauna M.; Ferguson, Susan; Hearst, Mary O.; Jones, Jo-Viviane; Wall, Shavaun; Petsagourakis, Despina; Chung, Agnes; Shannon, Una; Theodorakakis, Maria – Journal of Education, 2021
University-community partnerships (UCPs) are increasingly utilized to address issues in education. In this article, we present reflections on best practices for child- and family-focused UCPs. These reflections emerged before, during, and after a convening that brought together representatives from five UCPs in the United States that emphasized…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Universities, Best Practices
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Weaver, Gabriela C.; Austin, Ann E.; Greenhoot, Andrea Follmer; Finkelstein, Noah D. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
Effective teaching practice focused on encouraging deep engagement helps all students learn and succeed. Considerable work by researchers and change agents, encouraged by national organizations such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Research Council, has promoted greater use of evidence-based educational practices, such as…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Institutional Cooperation
Chapin, Gary; Gagnon, Laurie; Hammonds, Virgel – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
In an examination of the conditions required for the successful implementation of performance assessment, the authors draw on a range of personal experience and other insights to guide practitioners and policymakers. Building on the authentic assessment work of the Boston Pilot Schools (CCE 2004), in 2008 the Center for Collaborative Education…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Performance Based Assessment, Scaling, Educational Objectives
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2018
Partnering with Commonwealth schools and districts focused on continuous learning and improving student outcomes has had a profound impact on how the Rennie Center thinks about effective and sustainable change. This knowledge has guided the creation of Rennie's Change Management Framework, a rigorous, structured approach to planning and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
Hassel, Bryan C.; Brooks, Veronica; Perry, Oliver – Education Cities, 2017
This report documents how education "quarterbacks" (formerly known as harbormasters) have supported governance reform in three cities, and why and how they were effective. This exploration of why districts need governance reform and how to catalyze and implement it focuses on the following questions: (1) Why did the education…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Governance, School Administration, Urban Schools
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Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M.; Parsons, Arianna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Though scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to be content-focused, active, collaborative, coherent, and sustained, the application of this framework has yielded mixed results. In this qualitative study, we employed…
Descriptors: Professional Development, School Districts, Educational Policy, Academic Standards
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
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Peske, Heather; Losee, Liz; Comb, Meagan – State Education Standard, 2015
One of the core priorities of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), articulated in its most recent strategic plan, focuses on educator capacity. In 2012, BESE passed new program approval standards for educator preparation programs across the state. The standards ushered in new expectations for the 80 sponsoring…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Board of Education Policy, Educational Policy
Torres, Aubrey Scheopner; Brett, Jessica; Cox, Joshua – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine how competency-based learning (CBL) is defined across states in the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands region and gain insight into barriers and facilitators to implementation of this reform. Many states in the region have started to consider and implement competency-based learning as a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Definitions, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Nielson, Kate – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2014
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 English language arts/literacy and mathematics, released in 2010, have been adopted by 49 states and territories; the District of Columbia; and the U.S. Department of Defense schools, which serve the children of U.S. service members around the world. The widespread adoption of the CCSS is a major…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, State Policy, State Programs, Program Implementation
Brown, Catherine; Partelow, Lisette; Konoske-Graf, Annette – Center for American Progress, 2016
There has been a sea change in teacher evaluation over the past eight years. Inspired in part by President Barack Obama's policies, schools have instituted teacher evaluation systems that include multiple measures of teacher impact. Model systems are aligned to systems of continuous improvement, helping teachers identify areas of weakness in their…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Case Studies, Teacher Improvement, State Policy
Jacques, Catherine – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2013
States in the midst of implementing evaluation reforms face a common dilemma: how to ensure that all your districts are implementing quality educator evaluation systems while still providing them with the flexibility to design systems best suited to their own unique needs. One answer is to create an equivalency process (also known as an approval…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Change
Sears, Victoria – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
The Common Core is at a critical juncture. While many surveys show that support for the standards themselves remains strong, implementation has not been without major challenges. "State Accountability in the Transition to Common Core," a new policy brief from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, provides cautionary advice about what key…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Alignment (Education), Core Curriculum
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Vian, Taryn; Ashigbie, Paul G. – Journal of Health Education Teaching, 2015
Purpose: The environment of public health practice is rapidly changing, creating the need to adapt graduate education and accelerate educational innovation. Formative peer review is a strategy designed to promote critical reflection on teaching and to develop faculty as teachers. Through case study methods, we explore how peer review of teaching…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Masters Programs, Public Health, Peer Evaluation
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Belmont, Christopher – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence of how an integrated high school health, physical education, and wellness program can be implemented. In addition to describing the process used to develop and maintain this wellness curriculum, the article describes the content of the curriculum and how the teachers were able to capture and hold…
Descriptors: Wellness, Integrated Curriculum, Program Implementation, High Schools
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