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Jillian C. Ford; Misty D. Lambert – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
SAE for All was adopted by the National Council for Ag Education in 2015 and North Carolina launched the model through statewide professional development in 2019. As part of a larger study on implementation, this 2022 qualitative study sought to understand the barriers teachers were facing in implementing the SAE for All model and sought to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Program Implementation, Barriers, Middle School Teachers
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Kleinschmit, Adam J.; Rosenwald, Anne; Ryder, Elizabeth F.; Donovan, Sam; Murdoch, Barbara; Grandgenett, Nealy F.; Pauley, Mark; Triplett, Eric; Tapprich, William; Morgan, William – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
The preparation of future scientists, the technical workforce, and informed citizens will require continued transformation to the ways we approach STEM teaching and learning. Undergraduate STEM education is rapidly emerging as a focus of faculty scholarship, but new models for reform need to be developed and tested to accelerate changes in…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), STEM Education, Educational Change, Communities of Practice
Charmaine Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Since 2008, the Ministry of Education in Grenada, where this study took place, started curriculum reform with the implementation of the HighScope curriculum in preschools. The problem is that many teachers faced challenges implementing the HighScope curriculum. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of early…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Curriculum Implementation, Foreign Countries
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Kimber L. Wilkerson; Rebekka Olsen; Melinda M. Leko; Andrea Ruppar; Rui Dai – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2025
The article describes a promising new, fully virtual, multicomponent professional development intervention to support special education teachers in rural U.S. schools who enter the profession without full state licensure. The intervention seeks to strengthen special educators' self-efficacy in relation to classroom and behavior management, and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers
World Bank, 2021
This summary is based on the accompanying "Monitoring and Evaluation for In-Service Teacher Professional Development Programs: A Technical Guidance Note." The guidance note provides details on these highlights and sets out how to navigate some of the challenges that governments and other organizations may face when designing and…
Descriptors: Program Design, Educational Resources, Faculty Development, Progress Monitoring
Melinda Wallace; Maria Paredes; Faith Burtamekh, Contributor; Kenwyn Derby, Contributor – WestEd, 2024
Developed for school and district leaders, Family and Communication Engagement (FACE) departments, educators, and all departments charged with engaging families, this playbook offers evidence-based strategies to enhance family engagement in middle schools. It is a comprehensive resource for those seeking to implement broad-based improvements and…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Family Involvement, Evidence Based Practice, Middle Schools
Laura Brandt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reported rates of anxiety, depression, and lack of attention in adolescents have been on the rise for the past decade. The Centers for Disease Control reported that one in five high school students meets the criteria for a mental health disorder. School leaders are trying to address the growing challenge by providing students with tools they can…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Attention Control
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Roney, Michelle; Daftary, Ashley – School Social Work Journal, 2020
Over the past three decades, the restorative approach (RA) has been increasingly used as an alternative to exclusionary methods of discipline in the K-12 education system. Although the body of scholarship investigating the effectiveness of RA has grown, there remains a deficit in the literature that specifically explores barriers to effective and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Barriers, Restorative Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Amanda Colleen Picard – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the "Phonics First"® program within one district to inform district level curriculum team decisions and program planning moving forward. As a level 4 Directed State Support district, the studied district was looking for ways to close the achievement gap and raise overall…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Phonics, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
National Comprehensive Center, 2022
The Accelerated Learning Work Group's introductory Guide to Accelerated Learning offers descriptions, resources, and examples of state education agencies implementing Accelerated Learning into their programs. It also answers questions, such as: (1) How should Accelerated Learning be implemented?; (2) How are educators best supported during…
Descriptors: Guides, Acceleration (Education), Student Needs, Student Diversity
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Jackie E. Relyea; Dennis S. Davis; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Courtney Samuelson – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3-5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
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Reitz, Diane; Hall, Gene E. – Learning Professional, 2017
Challenges inherent to increasing student literacy are well-documented particularly in under performing schools. Those challenges increase in schools experiencing high staff turnover, high populations of English language learners, and greater poverty. In order to improve student learning in these communities there needs to be a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Literacy, Program Improvement, Coaching (Performance), Elementary Secondary Education
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Bipath, Keshni; Tebekana, Jongiwe; Venketsamy, Roy – Education Sciences, 2021
Leadership plays a central role in improving and sustaining quality in Early Childhood Development (ECD) settings in the South African context. This article explored the leadership of the Inclusive Education Policy (IEP) and the challenges experienced by ECD centre managers and teachers. Children with disabilities are most vulnerable,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Allensworth, Elaine M.; Cashdollar, Sarah; Cassata, Amy; Gwynne, Julia A. – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2022
The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS-M) were released in 2010 with a goal to improve critical thinking skills and prepare all students to thrive in college, careers, and as informed citizens. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) followed in 2013. Using districtwide surveys of students in grades 6-8, conducted annually from…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Instruction, Critical Thinking, Standards
Hu, Rong – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The research aimed to provide a complete understanding of characteristics, facilitators, and challenges in implementing professional learning communities in multi-age schools. This study utilized a mixed-methods multiple case study design. Participants in this study were teachers from two private K-8 multi-age schools. The characteristics of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Private Schools, Communities of Practice, Mixed Age Grouping
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