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Joseph Manko – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The community school strategy was first introduced in Baltimore City in 2012. Community schools are public elementary or secondary schools that provide comprehensive academic, social, and health services for students, families, and community members (U.S. Department of Education, 2023). In 2021, the state of Maryland made a substantial commitment…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Program Effectiveness
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Christian Clark; Alice Steimle; Bethany LaValley – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Solar eclipses are a rare phenomenon that everyone should have the opportunity to explore in depth. This article describes two programs developed by a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach center with the goal of bringing the excitement of eclipses to all learners. The STEM outreach center collaborated with local…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Elementary Secondary Education, College School Cooperation, School Community Relationship
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
A key component of comprehensive school and higher ed emergency operations plans (EOPs) is an exercise program that includes the five types of exercises: (1) orientations, (2) tabletop exercises, (3) drills, (4) functional exercises, and (5) full-scale exercises. The exercise program can be developed during Step 5 of the six-step planning process…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Emergency Programs, Drills (Practice)
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Hamza Malik; Rachel L. Stronach; Stephen B. Witzig – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Partnerships between schools and out-of-school organizations (museums, zoos, nature centers, etc.) have been shown to improve the educational experiences for both students and teachers. In this article, we report on the experiences we have documented as a nature center through our active involvement in school partnerships. Our partnerships with…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Amaya Garcia of New America talks with Kappan about grow-your-own programs, in which school districts partner with teacher preparation programs to recruit and prepare community members, often current students or school staff, to teach in local schools. A recent 50-state scan shows that there is a great deal of variety in how these programs are…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Education Programs, Partnerships in Education, Program Design
Erica Lynn Gilbertson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
New teachers are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. To retain them, school systems need comprehensive supports and collaborative school cultures that help teachers navigate the complexity of learning to teach. This action research study investigated the problem of new teacher turnover within a school-university partnership context. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, School Community Relationship, Teacher Persistence, Action Research
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2024
High-quality dual language immersion (DLI) programs can be a key lever to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism. The Dual Language Immersion Playbooks (DLI Playbooks) provide a roadmap for the creation, design and adoption of policies, processes, programs, and practices that state educational agencies (SEAs), local educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Paulina Yourupi-Sandy; Joyminda George – Region 18 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education (FSM NDOE) requested support from the Region 18 Comprehensive Center (R18CC) to build National and State-level knowledge of effective practices in bilingual and multilingual education. This scan offers an overview of evidence-based practices for implementing and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Effectiveness
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Jones, Emily; Eberline, Andrew; Knipe, Robert – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2020
As novel approaches to post-graduate education emerge and professional learning concepts evolve, there is a need for additional research investigating the processes by which physical education teacher education (PETE) faculty and administrators conceptualise and launch non-traditional graduate programming. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teacher Education, Physical Education, Masters Degrees
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2020
This comprehensive strategic plan lays out a vision for an education system that offers every Rhode Island student the opportunity to be a lifelong learner. While this plan is informed by the events of the pandemic, it looks beyond to address the root issues that impede students from thriving at every level of their education. It lays out…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Strategic Planning, Equal Education
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Wolf, Rebecca; Sands, Janelle – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
California recently overhauled its K-12 public education finance system. Enacted in 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) replaced California's 40-year-old funding formula. The LCFF increases district officials' fiscal flexibility; provides more resources to districts serving larger proportions of low-income, English learner (EL), and…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Scott, Caitlin; Ostler, Nora – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2016
The five states in the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest Region have many rural schools that have been designated as in need of improvement. And all five states had rural schools in the first cohort of federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) recipients. To address school improvement, the majority of those schools implemented the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Grants
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Scott, Caitlin; Ostler, Nora – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2016
This brief summarizes the findings from a study that surveyed principals of rural schools nationwide that were designated as in need of improvement and that used the transformation model under the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. It provides information about the use of SIG funds in rural areas and is designed to help state leaders…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Grants
Cronin, Jodi Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
School reform and turnaround efforts have been in the public eye since the signing of the Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965. Research has been focused on the School Improvement Grant, as well as the essential components that improve performance of schools. This qualitative case examines one…
Descriptors: Case Studies, School Turnaround, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Kelly, Dianne; Fearing, Erik – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
While Massachusetts has received accolades for its high scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) and Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, absolute results from standardized tests tend to correlate strongly with family income and parental education. The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education…
Descriptors: Consortia, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Partnerships in Education
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