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Kara J. Beckman; Angeline Gacad; Barbara McMorris – Grantee Submission, 2023
Schools are increasingly turning towards restorative practices as a pathway to building schools with stronger relationships, justice, and equity. While effectiveness studies are increasing, too little attention is focused on evaluating implementation. This resources is for audiences who evaluate implementation of whole school restorative practices…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Discipline, Justice
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Kelly H. Summers; Todd D. Reeves; David A. Walker; J. Schwartz – School Leadership Review, 2015
Training school leaders in the key areas of policy and state laws, basic statistical literacy, assessment types and purposes, and value-added models is particularly important because ideas shaping teacher performance evaluation are being considered at the national, state, and local levels. The authors argue that providing school leaders with this…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
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Stabler-Havener, Michelle L. – Working Papers in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2018
Assessment literacy (AL) empowers teachers (Grabowski & Dakin, 2014) by helping them make better decisions about the development, administration, and use of assessments (Harding & Kremmel, 2016; Popham, 2009). This is crucial because when teachers make erroneous interpretations, which lead to incorrect decisions, students can suffer…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Student Evaluation, Testing
Gibbons, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Public schools and districts in Nebraska are required to be accredited. The Nebraska Department of Education allows two methods to reach accreditation, the Nebraska Frameworks model and AdvancED Accreditation model. This study examined the factors that drive accreditation activities in Nebraska public schools and districts. It sought to answer…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Public Schools, School Districts, Evaluation Methods
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Harder, Amy; Hodges, Alan; Zelaya, Priscilla – Journal of Extension, 2017
Return on investment (ROI) is a commonly used metric for organizations concerned with demonstrating the value of their investments; it can be used to determine whether funds spent providing professional development programs for Extension professionals are good investments. This article presents a method for calculating ROI for an onboarding…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Professional Development, Value Judgment, Value Added Models
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2019
Rhode Island educators believe that implementing a fair, accurate, and meaningful educator evaluation and support system will help improve teaching, learning, and school leadership. The primary purpose of the Rhode Island Model Building Administrator Evaluation and Support System (Rhode Island Model) is to help all building administrators improve.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Models
American Association of School Librarians, 2018
AASL's new integrated standards are designed to empower leaders to transform teaching and learning. The new "National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries" reflect an evolution of AASL Standards, building on philosophical foundations and familiar elements of previous standards while featuring the…
Descriptors: National Standards, School Libraries, Educational Environment, Best Practices
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2018
Rhode Island educators believe that implementing a fair, accurate, and meaningful educator evaluation and support system will help improve teaching, learning, and school leadership. The primary purpose of the Rhode Island Model Building Administrator Evaluation and Support System (Rhode Island Model) is to help all building administrators improve.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Models
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Michele Walsh; Deborah John; Nicole Peritore; Andrea Morris; Carolyn Bird; Marion Ceraso; Sarah Eichberger; Rachel Novotny; Laura Stephenson; Suzanne Stluka; Roberta Riportella – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2018
A Health in All Policies approach engages cross-sector stakeholders to collaboratively improve systems that drive population health. We, the members of the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP)'s Health in All Policies Action Team, propose that adopting a Health in All Policies approach within the national Cooperative Extension…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Extension Education, Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Family and Consumer Sciences
Salvesen, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
With the passing of Act 82, the state of Pennsylvania has provided school districts with Danielson's Framework as a tool for principals to evaluate teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived professional development needs of Pennsylvania principals as they implemented the new educator effectiveness system. Three hundred…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Needs Assessment, Personnel Needs
Daugherty, Lindsay; Herman, Rebecca; Unlu, Fatih – RAND Corporation, 2017
The reauthorization of the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, referred to as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes evidence-based initiatives while providing new flexibilities to states and districts with regard to the use of federal funds, including funds to promote effective school leadership. In response, state and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Principals, Leadership Responsibility
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2019
Rhode Island is committed to ensuring that all educators receive fair, accurate, and meaningful educator evaluations that provide information that can help all support professionals improve and refine their practice. Currently, local education agencies (LEAs) in Rhode Island may submit a district-designed model for approval that complies with the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Objectives, School Personnel, School Nurses
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Corn, Jenifer O.; Byrom, Elizabeth; Knestis, Kirk; Matzen, Nita; Thrift, Beth – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Schools, districts, and state-level educational organizations are experiencing a great shift in the way they do the business of education. This shift focuses on accountability, specifically through the expectation of the effective utilization of evaluative-focused efforts to guide and support decisions about educational program implementation. In…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evaluators, Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation
Marker, Kathryn Christner – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Because data access may be perceived by principals as overwhelming or irrelevant rather than helpful (Wayman, Spikes, & Volonnino, 2013), data access does not guarantee effective data use. The data-based decision making literature has largely focused on teacher use of data, considering less often data-based organizational improvements for the…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Decision Making
Sargent, Michael Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to identify if a relationship existed between the implementation of professional evaluation processes and the use of research-based teaching practices, factoring in both perceptions of principals and practicing teachers. The variables of professional development on the evaluation model and the principal's years of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Administrator Attitudes, Principals
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