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Sharon Greenberg; Anthony S. Bryk – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Districts are struggling to accelerate students' learning, support their health and wellness, and close the achievement gap. Labeled "worst" in 1987, by 2017 Chicago Public Schools was among the nation's most improved school systems. Chicago's story embeds many lessons about system change. Sharon Greenberg and Anthony S. Bryk illustrate…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Capacity Building
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Walker, Virginia L.; Douglas, Karen H.; Douglas, Sarah N.; D'Agostino, Sophia R. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The purpose of this systematic literature review was to summarize single-case intervention studies involving paraprofessional-implemented systematic instruction for students with disabilities. In the 19 reviewed studies, 60 paraprofessionals received training to implement systematic instruction with most learning naturalistic language strategies,…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Students with Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness
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Attard Tonna, Michelle; Bugeja, Gaetano – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This paper explores the experience of educators who participated in a Train the Trainer programme with the aim of supporting teachers in the implementation of the Learning Outcomes Framework (LOF). Empirical data collected through interviews and narratives from a number of LOF Trainers, are analysed through a grounded theory approach. The insights…
Descriptors: Trainers, Teacher Educator Education, Teacher Education Programs, Faculty Development
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2017
Six years ago the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) took the unprecedented step of launching an effort to study and scale high-quality, evidence-based academic, social, and emotional learning in eight of the largest and most complex school systems in the country: Anchorage, Austin, Chicago, Cleveland, Nashville,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Social Development, Emotional Development, Superintendents
Bulgakov-Cooke, Dina; Singh, Malkeet – Wake County Public School System, 2018
The Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework, which uses a systems approach to promote school improvement and support all students in improving academics and behavior using data-based problem-solving, is a key part of the Wake County Public Schools System (WCPSS) Strategic Plan. As of 2017-18, MTSS schools were at the initial stages of MTSS…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
Reedy, Kristen; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie – WestEd, 2015
States, school districts, and schools across the country are increasingly implementing multi-tier systems of support (MTSS) to improve outcomes for all students. Kansas is no exception. The Kansas MTSS is designed to improve outcomes for all students by instituting system-level change across the classroom, school, district, and state. Such…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Change
Manna, Paul – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2010
During President Barack Obama's first two years in office, the administration's signature education initiative has been the Race to the Top (RTT) fund, a small part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that was passed to stimulate the nation's ailing economy. While celebrations and criticisms of RTT abound, serious attempts to…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Competition, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement
Education Funders Research Initiative, 2013
Education Funders Research Initiative (EdFunders), a project of Philanthropy New York, is supported by a group of diverse funding organizations that have pursued an array of education reform strategies. EdFunders have come together to engage New Yorkers and focus leaders on new research into how to best prepare students for college and…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Financial Support, Educational Change, College Preparation
Zuckerman, David W. – 1993
Evaluations of school restructuring, particularly school-based management (SBM) and shared decision making (SDM), have tended to focus on problems of implementation and on its consequent failure to fulfill its promises. Inadequate resources, unclear responsibilities, inhibiting regulations, and institutional resistance have all been cited as…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Program Effectiveness, Public Schools
Fitzsimmons, Mary K. – 1998
This digest reviews and summarizes what is known about effective school-wide behavioral management systems. Emphasis in such systems is on consistency throughout the building and across classrooms with the entire staff, both professional and nonprofessional, uniformly implementing common strategies. Common features of school-wide behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Mattson, Beverly; McCaul, Ed – 1999
This review examined the evaluation components from 10 awarded state improvement grants designed to improve systems providing services for students with disabilities. The review examined the following aspects of the evaluation components: purposes, conceptual framework for the evaluation and systems reform, evaluation design and approaches,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Development Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1988
This resource guide outlines procedures for efficiently and effectively planning and implementing transition programming for at-risk students. Based on a review and synthesis of needs assessment systems in transition programs, a flow chart is presented showing step-by-step procedures recommended for local transition needs assessments. Steps in the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Data Collection, Disabilities
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Hernandez, Mario; Hodges, Sharon – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2003
Rethinking and expanding the theory of change underlying systems of care are recommended to support development of the knowledge base for understanding what systems of care can be expected to accomplish. Three domains of knowledge are presented as necessary to understanding the relationship between systems-level change and services. (Contains…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Skiba, Russell; And Others – 1996
This monograph offers an introduction to providing an interagency "system of care" for meeting the needs of children and youth with emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD). This approach focuses on meeting the individual needs of children with E/BD in their home communities and supporting family members as allies in the treatment process. Strategies…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2005
This handbook provides P-16 council leaders with a toolkit of background information and proposed procedures for structuring and guiding implementation of Business-Higher Education Forum's (BHEF) proposed action plan. Specifically, it details a four-part nationwide action plan to improve overall pre-kindergarten through high school (P-12)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Business
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