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Lac, Van T.; Diaz, Christina – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This study examines the experiences of three aspiring Latina school leaders in a principal preparation program with a social justice emphasis. Employing theoretical perspectives grounded in a community-based educational leadership framework and transformational resistance theory, this study documents how coursework informed the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Disadvantaged
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Bennett, Michael B.; Hinko, Kathleen A.; Izadi, Dena – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted every aspect of academic activity, including the informal education and public engagement efforts of physics departments and institutions. As part of a large-scale national survey of the landscape of informal physics education programs, we have conducted a series of short interviews with directors and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Physics, Science Instruction, COVID-19
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Lemos, Monica; Liberali, Fernanda – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore a formative intervention project that was developed for the Municipal Secretariat of Education in São Paulo, Brazil for the broad development of all levels of educational management (teacher educators, coordinators, principals, teachers and students). Thus, the creative chain of activities is a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Intervention, Meetings
Moss, G.; Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Duncan, S.; Levy, R. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
The COVID pandemic has led to a prolonged period of educational disruption with few precedents from the recent past to guide recovery. The Institute of Education's project, "Learning Through Disruption," set out to explore the knowledge schools have acquired from working with children and families during the crisis. The authors found…
Descriptors: School Districts, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Methods
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2020
Located in East Oakland, Bridges Academy serves nearly 430 students, the majority of whom are Spanish speakers. Students who are considered socio-economically disadvantaged comprise 98% of the population and English Learners make up 83%. The school also hosts one of Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) bilingual programs. In 2016, Bridges…
Descriptors: School Districts, Spanish Speaking, Low Income Groups, Student Centered Learning
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Lieberman, Devorah – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
The concept of and approach to service-learning across higher education has changed dramatically over the last two and a half decades. Historically, one of the primary goals of service-learning was to prepare undergraduate students to become engaged citizens and to introduce them to the challenges experienced by individuals from marginalized or…
Descriptors: Service Learning, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Colmenero, Manuel Jacinto Roblizo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The paper presents a successful educational practice that, inspired by the "dialogic learning" methodological principles, is implemented through a "learning community." Theoretical bases are introduced, along with some defining traits of didactic practice. The focus is on the 'La Paz' "learning community" case, as a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Communities of Practice, Poverty, Neighborhoods
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Beckett, Linnea; Glass, Ronald David; Moreno, Ana Paulina – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
Where dominant models of urban school reform often regard immigrant communities as obstacles that must be managed or reduced, the two projects analyzed in this study ("Alianza" and the Project) regard the community as a powerful source of knowledge and as partners working towards educational improvement (Nygreen, 2009). This paper…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Popular Education, Empowerment, Educational Improvement
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Facer, Keri; Thomas, Louise – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This paper uses Fraser's (1999) concept of social justice as comprising both redistribution and recognition as a frame to interrogate two "Area-Based Curriculum" projects running since 2008 in Manchester and Peterborough schools. It argues that historic concerns about working with "the local" in cross-curricular activities has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Change, Social Networks
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Curry-Stevens, Ann – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2011
The past year of a five-year campus-community research project marked the release of a substantive report that details broad and deep racial disparities stretching across institutional practices and outcomes, service access, and economic and social conditions. The report has catalyzed an abundance of advocacy opportunities, as the release has…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, School Community Relationship, Racial Differences
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France, Thaddeus J.; Moosbrugger, Michelle; Brockmeyer, Gretchen – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2011
Many of the numerous innovations in physical education have the potential to enhance the status of physical education and physical educators. For example, curriculum models such as experiential education and sport education have reshaped content, learning outcomes, and assessment in physical education. In addition, these models are redefining how…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Value Judgment, Status
Lowenstein, Ethan; Martusewicz, Rebecca; Voelker, Lisa – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
In the summer of 2009, a group of teachers, community activists, and university professors came together in a Summer Institute on EcoJustice Education and Community-Based Learning held by the Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalitions at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). A series of workshops were organized to help participants examine the…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Workshops, Summer Programs, Educational Change
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Austin, Theresa; Willett, Jerri; Gebhard, Margaret; Montes, Agustin Lao – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010
This article reports on a teacher education program's preparation of bilingual paraeducators during a period of conflicting educational reform of structured English immersion in Massachusetts. Drawing on nexus analysis of discourses (R. Scollon & S. W. Scollon, 2004), we discuss factors faced by Latino educators. These include competing…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Bilingualism
Blank, Martin J.; Jacobson, Reuben; Melaville, Atelia – Center for American Progress, 2012
A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development. The community school strategy is central to efforts…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Social Services, Unions, Community Development
Astbury, Janice; Huddart, Stephen; Theoret, Pauline – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2009
This is a story about how a national Canadian environmental education program (Green Street) evolved in unpredictable ways and about the particular twist in the road that led program stakeholders to focus on scaling up in different ways than originally imagined. The "twist" occurred when the program reached the initially perceived…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Citizenship, Environmental Education, Educational Change
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