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Colwell, Melissa Kate Winstead – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the quantitative, descriptive, correlational study was to determine the influence of the first-year teacher induction program on the retention of teachers within the first five years of their careers. The study was conducted by surveying 70 teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in a large school district in the upstate…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Elementary Secondary Education
Alex Cortez; Michaela Gaziano; Alexandria Smith – Bellwether, 2024
In the United States, people often feel like they need to choose between pursuing a conventional four-year college degree or working, leaving millions of people with no opportunity to achieve the professional and economic advancement that comes with a bachelor's degree. What if this is a false choice? Apprenticeship Degrees offer a hybrid option…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, On the Job Training, Bachelors Degrees, Teacher Education Programs
Andrew M. Camp; J. Cameron Anglum; Cory Koedel; Se Woong Lee; Tuan D. Nguyen – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2025
School districts across the United States are increasingly adopting the four-day school week, often in the hope of addressing teacher staffing challenges. We examine the effects of the four-day week on teacher recruitment and retention in Missouri, where three in ten districts currently use it. After presenting qualitative data showing that school…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Program Effectiveness
Matthew H. Lee; John Thompson; Eric Wearne – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Hybrid school enrollments are trending up and many parents express a diverse range of reasons for enrolling their children in hybrid schools. Yet little is known about the pedagogical goals pursued by hybrid schools. We aim to help close this gap in the literature with a stated preferences experiment of hybrid school leaders' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blended Learning, Evaluation Methods, Program Effectiveness
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Research has shown that school leaders can substantially influence student outcomes, including student achievement, and that some school leaders improve student outcomes at a much faster rate than others do. The strong influence of school leaders on student outcomes has led to the creation of student outcome-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Principals, Program Effectiveness
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Research has shown that school leaders can substantially influence student outcomes, including student achievement, and that some school leaders improve student outcomes at a much faster rate than others do. The strong influence of school leaders on student outcomes has led to the creation of student outcome-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Principals, Program Effectiveness
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Research has shown that school leaders can substantially influence student outcomes, including student achievement, and that some school leaders improve student outcomes at a much faster rate than others do. The strong influence of school leaders on student outcomes has led to the creation of student outcome-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Principals, Program Effectiveness
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
IIEP-UNESCO Dakar and the IFEF have carried out a joint study on contextualizing and adapting the competency-based approach (CBA) in seven African countries: South Africa, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, and Senegal. This study has identified good practices and their use for making the CBA more effective in TVET systems, as well as the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Pham, Lam D.; Henry, Gary T.; Kho, Adam; Zimmer, Ron – AERA Open, 2020
Recent evaluations of reforms to improve low-performing schools have almost exclusively focused on shorter term effects. In this study, we extend the literature by examining the sustainability and maturation of two turnaround models in Tennessee: the state-led Achievement School District (ASD) and district-led local Innovation Zones (iZones).…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Sustainability, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Pearson, 2021
While young people are generally better educated today than ever before, recent graduates tend to lack practical skills -- especially digital skills. Certification programs offer one effective way to address this digital skills gap. They give learners a way to gain the skills they need to compete, and also to demonstrate credibly that they possess…
Descriptors: Student Certification, Educational Certificates, Technological Literacy, Computer Software
Mezera, Danielle; Suffren, Quentin – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2018
In its first Career and Technical Education (CTE) playbook, "Putting Career and Technical Education to Work for Students" (see ED609912), ExcelinEd examined the need and rationale for strengthening statewide CTE programs and provided a process that state policymakers can undertake to do just that. Serious efforts to develop and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Partnerships in Education, Business
Leugers, Lucinda – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this research study was to examine the effects of K-12 early career teacher participation in a mentoring or induction program as well as personal resiliency on intention to teach next year and still be teaching in five years. Teacher retention has been an issue for over 50 years and is one of the least understood issues in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
Steinberg, Matthew P.; Yang, Haisheng – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Principals shape the academic setting of schools. Yet, there is limited evidence on whether principal professional development improves schooling outcomes. Beginning in 2008-09, Pennsylvania's Inspired Leadership (PIL) induction program required that newly hired principals complete targeted in-service professional development tied to newly…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Beginning Principals, Program Effectiveness
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Mann, Anthony; Rehill, Jordan; Kashefpakdel, Elnaz T. – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This study, commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is designed to review current evidence on the most effective ways in which employers can support schools to improve pupil educational and economic outcomes. It is a study in three parts. It aims, first, to conceptualise employer engagement in education as a strategic tool,…
Descriptors: Employers, School Business Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2021
This study examines the impact of a federal Teacher Incentive Fund grant award that expanded a partnership between Cross County School District and the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) to create systems that support ongoing, continuous improvement for teachers. Through the implementation of the TAP System for Teacher and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Rural Schools, Barriers, Teacher Persistence
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