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Core Requirements, Structured Flexibility, and Local Judgment: Balancing Adherence and Adaptation in the Design and Implementation of District-Wide Professional Development
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Julie Cohen; Arielle Boguslav; James Wyckoff; Veronica Katz; Katherine Sadowski; Emily A. Wiseman – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Professional development (PD) for teachers is a ubiquitous feature of the American educational landscape. Yet we know little about how districts navigate the variation in teacher learning needs when designing and implementing district-wide PD programs. In this paper, we describe how the District of Columbia Public Schools implemented an ambitious…
Descriptors: School Districts, Faculty Development, Program Design, Program Implementation
Examining Implementation Fidelity in America's Choice Schools: A Longitudinal Analysis of Changes in Professional Development Associated with Changes in Teacher Practice
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Kisa, Zahid; Correnti, Richard – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
The research on professional development (PD) consists mostly of studies utilizing cross-sectional data. We examined effects of change in school-level PD on change in teachers' practice longitudinally. Using survey reports from 1,722 teachers in 31 schools implementing a popular comprehensive school reform (America's Choice), we found that…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Longitudinal Studies, Fidelity