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Van-Kim Lin; Silvana Esposito Hackett; Dale Richards; Carlise King; Meg Bredeson – Child Trends, 2023
The System Transformation for Equitable Preschools (STEP Forward with Data) Framework was developed to help preschool systems leaders understand where in the preschool system there may be inequities in how children and families are accessing, being supported by, and experiencing the system. The Framework offers preschool systems leaders a pathway…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Equal Education, Educational Change, Systems Approach
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Binbin Jiang; Jeffrey Robinson; Nicholas Clegorne; Tak Cheung Chan – Educational Planning, 2025
This article explores the unique structure and challenges faced by Southeast State University's Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) and Tier II Leadership Certification programs. It highlights the effective strategies implemented to address these challenges and their positive effects on program quality and student success. The findings indicate…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Certification, Educational Change
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Young, Dallin George; Keup, Jennifer R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter draws from national data to explore unique attributes of first-year seminars in community college contexts as well as high-impact practices that are often connected to them. Findings point to areas of opportunity for practice and directions for future research to better understand how community colleges can be poised to meet the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Educational Practices
Jenkins, Davis; Lahr, Hana; Fink, John; Ganga, Elizabeth; Kopko, Elizabeth; Brown, Amy E.; Patterson, Porshèa – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
Guided pathways reforms require colleges to rethink how they teach and support students. The case studies in Part 2 of this practitioner packet examine how colleges at the forefront of these reforms are transforming their programs and support services by implementing three key guided pathways practices: (1) meta-majors (clusters of programs in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Academic Support Services, College Programs
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Siskin, Leslie Santee – Teachers College Record, 2016
Building on an expanded concept of mutual adaptation, this chapter explores a distinctive and successful aspect of International Baccalaureate's effort to scale up, as they moved to expand their programs and support services in Title I schools. Based on a three-year, mixed-methods study, it offers a case where we see not only local adaptations…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Program Improvement, Educational Change, Media Adaptation
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West, Chad; Clauhs, Matthew – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This article examines ways in which music education advocacy efforts have become disconnected from the unified visions and declarations of music educators espoused in the Tanglewood and Housewright declarations and are thus reifying the disconnect between what we value and what we say we value. We first analyze the policies posited by the recently…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Advocacy, Program Improvement
Orr, Betsy – Online Submission, 2013
A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis of a teacher education program, or any program, can be the driving force for implementing change. A SWOT analysis is used to assist faculty in initiating meaningful change in a program and to use the data for program improvement. This tool is useful in any undergraduate or degree…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Educational Change, Improvement Programs
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David, Kevin M.; Sivadon, Angela D.; Wood, Donna G.; Stecher, Sarah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
In 2007, Tulsa Community College (TCC) joined the national Achieving the Dream (ATD) network, which is dedicated to developing data-informed interventions to increase persistence and completion among community college students. TCC's participation in the national initiative set it down a path for positive institutional change, but it was the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Program Improvement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Jenkins, Davis; Lahr, Hana; Fink, John; Ganga, Elizabeth – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
Guided pathways reforms can take several years to implement at scale because they require a thoroughgoing redesign of a college's major functions, including: (1) organizing programs into career-focused meta-majors to enhance student recruitment and exploration and program improvement; (2) mapping clear paths to degrees, employment, and further…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Administration, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Howard Adelman; Linda Taylor – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2024
In this brief, we discuss embedding and framing the evolving literatures related to improvement and implementation sciences into a general intervention perspective. From that perspective, we sketch out some basic considerations related to improvement and implementation research, practice, and policy.
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Research and Development, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Thomas, Jerry R. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
This commentary provides a review of changes in data reporting in "Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport" from Volumes 49 and 59 to 84. Improvements were noted in that all articles reported means, standard deviations, and sample sizes, while most (87%) articles reported an estimate of effect size ("ES"). Additional…
Descriptors: Data, Research Reports, Technical Writing, Educational Change
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Eaton, Carrie Diaz; Highlander, Hannah Callender – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Calculus is one of the primary avenues for initial quantitative training of students in all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, but life science students have been found to underperform in the traditional calculus setting. As a result, and because of perceived lack of its contribution to the understanding of biology, calculus…
Descriptors: Calculus, Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Design
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Doolittle, Sarah – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2014
This feature has told stories of high school physical educators who have refused to accept the status quo of high school physical education programs. They have identified problems, initiated innovations in their own classes, implemented changes beyond their classes, and moved toward institutionalizing improvements throughout their programs and…
Descriptors: Profiles, High Schools, Educational Improvement, Physical Education
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Chuchalin, Alexander; Malmqvist, Johan; Tayurskaya, Marina – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
The paper presents the approach to complex training of managers and faculty staff for system modernisation of Russian engineering education. As a methodological basis of design and implementation of the faculty development programme, the CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) Approach was chosen due to compliance of its concept to the purposes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Development, Faculty Development
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Brian, Ali; Ward, Phillip; Goodway, Jacqueline D.; Sutherland, Sue – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2014
Softball is taught in many physical education programs throughout the United States. This article describes modifications that maximize learning outcomes and that address the National Standards and safety recommendations. The modifications focus on tasks and equipment, developmentally appropriate motor-skill acquisition, increasing number of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Team Sports, National Standards, Safety
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