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Aryal, Bhushan; Bluemel, Brody; Nurse, A. Myrna – Composition Forum, 2022
This approach article describes the structure of the new Composition and Speech Program at Delaware State University, particularly in light of the use of discourse-based interview (DBI) methodology in the development process of the program. The program includes a 4-course sequence--three 2-credit hour composition courses and one 3-credit hour…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Improvement, Interviews, Professional Development
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Robinson, Maureen – Education as Change, 2016
Twenty years into democracy, South Africa is still struggling to improve the quality of its education system. The identification of schools that can work closely with universities to mentor student teachers has been suggested as one way in which teacher education can contribute to an improved education system. The article outlines research that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
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Thompson, Charles L.; Henry, Gary; Preston, Courtney – Teachers College Record, 2016
Between 2006 and 2010, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction intervened in 128 low-performing schools, combining approaches consistent with school restructuring and transformation. In improved schools, local educators reconstructed key school functions, a distinctly nonlinear process more like the work of skilled craftsmen than that…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Low Achievement, Interviews, High Schools
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Riley, Tasha; Webster, Amanda – Teaching Education, 2016
In 2011 to 2012, 48 schools in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland participated in the Principals as Literacy Leaders with Indigenous Communities (PALLIC) project. Central to this project was the establishment of positive working relationships between school principals and Indigenous community leaders in order to improve…
Descriptors: Principals, Indigenous Populations, Literacy, School Community Relationship
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McKenzie, William – Education Next, 2014
This article presents an interview with Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Texas's largest district. Before taking this post, he had been a principal or superintendent for most of three decades and remains a reformer five years into his leadership. Grier has maintained his passion for improving schools…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Interviews, Profiles, Superintendents
Raynor, Alethea Frazier; Potochnik, Tracie; Thompson, Joanne; Dowcett, Kathleen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2015
In 2009, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) was on the brink of state takeover, with low academic performance, significant achievement gaps, and a number of schools failing to meet performance targets under No Child Left Behind. Additionally, over the past decade, significant demographic shifts in Nashville have resulted in MNPS becoming…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Raynor, Alethea Frazier; Potochnik, Tracie; Thompson, Joanne; Dowcett Kathleen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2015
Pioneering research on effective schools more than thirty-five years ago revealed that school leadership is second only to teachers in its impact on student achievement. Underscoring this research, a new study from Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) found that building school administrators' leadership capacity has played a critical role…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2016
Minnesotans value education. Education is the largest financial investment in the state budget, and those investments place Minnesota students among the top performers in the nation. Still, substantial gaps in opportunity and performance persist. The three purposes of the needs assessment were to: (1) Describe infrastructure, capacity, and costs…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Needs Assessment, Information Utilization, Program Evaluation
Travis, Timothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Instructional rounds are an emerging network structure with processes and protocols designed to develop superintendents' knowledge and skills in leading large-scale improvement, to enable superintendents to build an infrastructure that supports the work of improvement, to assist superintendents in distributing leadership throughout their district,…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level, Educational Improvement
Sherrod, Ginnie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Effective professional development programs have been linked with rigorous state standards and district school improvement goals. Despite efforts of local districts to meet state standards and district school improvement goals, there has been limited research at the local level that has compared administrators' and teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Administrators, Program Effectiveness
Strand, Matt – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This is a study of teachers' authentic professional learning at a public school in Poudre School District in northern Colorado. At Polaris Expeditionary Learning School, teachers and administrators have developed a form of school-based instructional rounds referred to herein as PLC rounds (professional learning community rounds). In PLC rounds,…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Education, Teacher Improvement
Stiles, Katherine; Mundry, Susan; DiRanna, Kathy – WestEd, 2017
In response to the need to develop leaders to guide the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Carnegie Corporation of New York provided funding to WestEd to develop a framework that defines the leadership knowledge and actions needed to effectively implement the NGSS. The development of the framework entailed…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Instruction, Standard Setting, Science Education
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Yuen, Lai Ha – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2011
Emphasis on continuing professional development is seen as an important aspect of educational reform at all levels of education. In recent years, a number of colleges and universities have established partnerships for the professional development of teachers at the elementary and secondary levels. However, there have been few partnerships within…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Wahlstrom, Kyla L.; York-Barr, Jennifer – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
The critical role that leadership plays in student learning is documented in a six-year research study funded by The Wallace Foundation that examined the effect of leadership on learning. From that research, professional development emerges as a primary vehicle for authentic and sustainable school improvement. The voices in interviews of nearly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Professional Development, Leadership
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Lai, Edith; Cheung, Derek – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This paper attempts to identify leadership practices and qualities of school teachers as they engaged in effecting change initiated by a curriculum reform in Hong Kong. Based on interview data of teachers from nine schools, this paper shows how teacher leadership manifested itself in schools. Three approaches to teacher leadership were identified,…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Role, Change Agents
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