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Designing and Scaling Highly Effective Interventions That Produce BIG Improvement: "Counter-Intuitive Lessons from the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Project." Conference Paper
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Pogrow, Stanley – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
There is little discussion in the Design-Based Research (DBR) literature on how to design an intervention that has the potential to be highly effective. The act of designing is usually viewed as engineering something from theory or research on best practices. This paper challenges that universal belief and presents successful design as an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Design, Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking
A Case Study of Secondary District-Level Literacy Coaches' Beliefs about How to Teach Reading
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Crawford, Pamela Sharp – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This was a qualitative case study that compared data across six district-level literacy coaches' epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading. All six coaches were working as a cohort of literacy coaches on the development and implementation of a secondary reading intervention program for seventh-grade struggling readers.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods, Vignettes
State of Arizona Career Exploration Model.
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. – 1979
This career exploration model gives a framework for use by schools in planning, developing, and implementing a career exploration program for grades 7 and 8 within a complete career education program. The recommended plan for use of the two-phase model is to use phase 1 at the seventh-grade level and phase 2 at the eighth-grade level. The major…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration
Continuous Development and Dissemination, 1980-81. Phase III, Commonwealth Studies Project.
Boraks, Nancy; Schumacher, Sally – 1981
The third and final phase of a three-year project to develop state-studies materials for Virginia is described in this report. The third phase involved continued pilot testing of fourth-grade materials, development of drafts of seventh-grade materials, and exploration of plans for dissemination. The report comprises six chapters. Chapter 1 reviews…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Competency Based Curriculum Guide. Career Education. Grades 7-8.
Fountain Valley School District, CA. – 1976
Designed as a resource for junior high teachers (7-8), this curriculum activities guide is third in a set of four based on an articulated (K-12) career education competency curriculum model designed to infuse career education into the curriculum on a districtwide basis. Materials for each of the four program components are arranged under the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
A Developmental Assessment Program for Special Needs Students in Junior High School. Guidance Project. Final Report.
Rader, Martha S. – 1986
A project was designed to provide career development activities for selected educationally at-risk seventh graders in two target junior high schools in the Roanoke City Public School System, Virginia. The assumption was that career development activities that provide students with increased self-understanding, coupled with strategies involving the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Exploration