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Garira, Elizabeth – SAGE Open, 2020
Quality of education in schools requires accurate descriptions of all its components to judge its realization and plan for its improvement. However, it can be difficult to obtain such descriptions in an effective manner. This article aims to propose a unified conceptual framework for quality of education in schools to facilitate an understanding…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Schools, Systems Approach, Models
Digital Promise, 2021
The Powerful Learning with Computational Thinking report explains how the Digital Promise team works with districts, schools, and teachers to make computational thinking ideas more concrete to practitioners for teaching, design, and assessment. We describe three powerful ways of using computers that integrate well with academic subject matter and…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection
Sands, Sara R. – Educational Policy, 2023
The research on education philanthropy typically characterizes foundations as practicing either "traditional" or "strategic" philanthropy. These labels are used to indicate divergent ways of thinking about the impact of grants and approaches to grantmaking between the two models. Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Grants, Sociology
Da'as, Rima'a; 'Ali, Nohad – London Review of Education, 2021
This article discusses the implications of sociopolitical and cultural challenges and complexity on educational leaders' use of strategic thinking skills in divided societies, using the case of Israel, a deeply divided society with a hegemonic Jewish ethno-national state and Bedouins -- a subculture of the minority Arabs. In the suggested model,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Thinking Skills, Principals, Migrants
Larson, Tiffany R. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
National and state-based assessments have been a common practice for the past several decades. These assessments often come with high-stake consequences for students and schools, which tends towards the creation of a test-centric environment where educators prioritize test-based instruction to prepare students to be successful on those…
Descriptors: Models, School Districts, High Stakes Tests, Test Preparation
Gurr, David; Drysdale, Lawrie; Goode, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: Through description and consideration of 12 models developed as part of the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP), a new model of successful school leadership is developed. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is necessarily descriptive in nature. For the first time, 12 ISSPP models are described together, and…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Feedback (Response)
Noorani, Amjad, Ed.; Hussain, Nadeem, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2021
"Agents of Change" is a compilation of thought-provoking insights, opinions, personal stories, and suggested actions for change in the K-12 education system in Pakistan. It validates how good schooling can alleviate poverty and advance societal development through equitable opportunity for quality education. Clear and precise proposals…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Poverty
Adams, Julie; Duncan Grand, DeAnna – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Historically, deep learning opportunities have occurred in schools attended by this country's most advantaged students, and there have been few successful efforts to systemically create the structures and policies necessary to ensure every student has access to this type of learning. The New Tech Network, a network of more than 200 elementary,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Projects, Public Schools, Models
Hooper, Lisa M.; Britnell, Heather Brandt – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
The authors discuss the challenges that researchers from university and community systems face in gaining access to and partnering with K-12 school systems to conduct research. Borrowing from Szapocznik, Hervis, and Schwartz's (2003) brief strategic family theory and therapy and Bronfenbrenner's (1979, 1986) ecological systems theory, the authors…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Health Services, Mental Health, Elementary Secondary Education
Dougherty, Chrys; Rutherford, Jean – National Center for Educational Achievement, 2009
What fundamental ideas from higher performing schools underlie a coherent approach to educational improvement? First, only a system-wide approach to improving teaching and learning can make it possible for students to receive good teaching, year after year, across different subjects. Given the difficulty of the task, isolated and uncoordinated…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Models, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts
Kopcha, Theodore J. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
The purpose of this article is to present a systems-based mentoring model of technology integration that follows a research-based path. The model moves teachers through four specific stages of technology adoption toward using technology to support learning in more student-centered ways. The model describes how a mentor can negotiate the interplay…
Descriptors: Mentors, Elementary Secondary Education, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2010
In light of recent data showing that educational attainment rates in the United States have stagnated, the Obama administration and others have called for renewed efforts to bolster higher education outcomes. Strengthening the role of community colleges is undoubtedly an important component of any plan to dramatically increase the number of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Elementary Secondary Education, Industry, Educational Attainment
US Department of Education, 2012
The Department has developed a Race to the Top program review process that not only addresses the Department's responsibilities for fiscal and programmatic oversight, but is designed to identify areas to differentiate support based on individual State needs, as well as certain topics where States can leverage work with each other and with experts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Gains
US Department of Education, 2012
This State-specific summary report serves as an assessment of the District of Columbia's Year 1 Race to the Top implementation, highlighting successes and accomplishments, identifying challenges, and providing lessons learned from implementation to date. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) manages the District of Columbia…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Gains
US Department of Education, 2012
This State-specific summary report serves as an assessment of Delaware's Year 1 Race to the Top implementation, highlighting successes and accomplishments, identifying challenges, and providing lessons learned from implementation to date. Delaware created new structures at the State level to support both State and LEA (local education agency) Race…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Gains