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Fabillar, Eliza – Education Development Center, Inc., 2018
Education Development Center's (EDC) systemic equity review framework helps education leaders take a deeper look at inequities in order to understand the complex systems that affect student performance. While equity audits have historically played a role in curriculum assessments and state accountability systems, achievement gaps by race and class…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Audits (Verification)
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Jacobson, Linda – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
Susana Velasco always thought she designed lessons for her kindergarten students to help them meet the academic standards for their grade. But now she feels better equipped to adapt instruction to meet the needs of all the children in her class--a skill she has developed through her school's participation in the Literacy Design Collaborative…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Models, Alignment (Education), Academic Standards
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Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Cannata, Marisa; Rutledge, Stacey A.; Socol, Allison Rose – Teachers College Record, 2016
This chapter describes a model for continuous improvement that guides the work of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, or NCSU. NCSU is a research and development center funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, the research arm of the United States Department of Education. At the core of the Center's work is an innovative…
Descriptors: High Schools, Total Quality Management, Educational Research, Educational Innovation
Choi, Jeong Hoon; Meisenheimer, Jessica M.; McCart, Amy B.; Sailor, Wayne – Remedial and Special Education, 2017
The present investigation examines the schoolwide applications model (SAM) as a potentially effective school reform model for increasing equity-based inclusive education practices while enhancing student reading and math achievement for all students. A 3-year quasi-experimental comparison group analysis using latent growth modeling (LGM) was used…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Educational Change, Reading Achievement
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Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2014
Scott Hamilton is the Forrest Gump of education reform, although with a lot more IQ points and fewer chocolates. He worked for Bill Bennett in the U.S. Department of Education and for Benno Schmidt at the Edison Project. He authorized charter schools in Massachusetts, co-founded the KIPP network, quadrupled the size of Teach For America (TFA), and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Kantrov, Ilene – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The Academy of Information Technology and Robotics (AITR) in the Volusia County (Florida) Schools district is leading students to stronger academic gains and better preparation for college and career. AITR is a beefed-up version of the career academy model that began in Philadelphia in 1969. The strengths of AITR exemplify the features of career…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Practices, Improvement Programs, Career Academies
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Al-Fuqaha, Isam Najib – Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
This paper is an endeavor to develop a customised and computerized matrix of Quality Function Deployment paradigm (QFD) that has been applied in industry, with the aim of probing quality assurance and enhancement in Universities. Results of testing the new matrix proved that, it is efficient and time-saving while compared with a detailed field…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, College Administration, Quality Assurance, Models
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Mayotte, Gail; Wei, Dan; Lamphier, Sarah; Doyle, Thomas – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2013
Professional development provides a means to build capacity among school personnel when it is delivered as part of a systematic, long-term approach to school and teacher improvement. This research examines a sustained, diocesan-wide professional development model, called the ACE Collaborative for Academic Excellence, that aims to build capacity…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Change, Catholic Schools, Teacher Improvement
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Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This paper argues that the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be used to establish stronger links between educational effectiveness research (EER) and school improvement. It provides research evidence to support the validity of the model. Thus, the importance of using the dynamic model to establish an evidence-based and theory-driven…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Educational Improvement
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Green, Joanne; Matthews, Susan; Carter, Emilie; Fabrizio, John; Hoover, Jane; Schoenfeld, Naomi A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2013
Recent years have brought many changes to the ways in which schools in the United States address learning disabilities in their students. In an attempt to provide all students with appropriate reading instruction and to identify struggling students in a more timely manner, the 2004 revision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Response to Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Special Education
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Colby, Ira C. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
The foundation year and specialization year of study are the accepted framework for graduate social work education. A common belief among educators is that accreditation standards are prescriptive by design, resulting in a rigidity that neither encourages nor supports curricular innovation. This article outlines a newly developed curriculum model…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Social Work, Instructional Innovation
Sahlberg, Pasi – American Educator, 2012
International indicators show that Finland has one of the most educated citizenries in the world, provides educational opportunities in an egalitarian manner, and makes efficient use of resources. But at the beginning of the 1990s, education in Finland was nothing special in international terms. The performance of Finnish students on international…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities
Habegger, Shelly; Hodanbosi, Philip – Principal Leadership, 2011
How are administrators leveraging the expertise and passion in their buildings? How do they inspire enthusiasm in their teachers and improve student achievement? How do they act as an agent for change? Those are the tasks the authors are given as instructional coaches. In the beginning, they were unsure how to tackle those tasks--or even if it was…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Best Practices, Coaching (Performance), Improvement Programs
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Scanlan, Martin; Zisselsberger, Margarita – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students comprise the most rapidly expanding, and among the most educationally marginalized, group in the United States. CLD students' opportunities to learn are often diminished through service delivery models that are deficit-oriented, viewing linguistic diversity as a challenge to overcome, not a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Partnerships in Education, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students
McLester, Susan – District Administration, 2012
The term "talent development" has historically been associated only with gifted education in the K12 education world. But for the past 30 years, husband and wife team Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis have been steadily increasing the pool of educators trained to apply talent development practices to mainstream instruction through the Renzulli…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Interests
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