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Stoetzel, Lindsay; Taylor-Marshall, Sandra – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2022
Purpose: Across K-12 settings, instructional coaching continues to flourish as an approach to teacher professional development intended to address long-standing inequities in student achievement. Yet, coaching models differ in how to conceptualize change or transformation as a result of coaching efforts. Design/methodology/approach: This case…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Change, Professional Development, Beliefs
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Poortman, Cindy L.; Brown, Chris; Schildkamp, Kim – Educational Research, 2022
Background: Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) of educators represent a promising approach to achieving continuous school improvement. At the same time, a range of studies in this area, including several systematic reviews and meta-analyses, report multiple conceptual and methodological challenges, or, at best, mixed results. Purpose and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Professional Development, Educational Improvement, Communities of Practice
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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Kudenko, Irina; Hoyle, Pauline; Dunn, Ben – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
This chapter investigates the impact and relative advantages of two engagement models for delivering science-specific PD: school-led partnerships and external-led PD delivered by STEM experts. Traditionally professional development (PD) led by professional education experts has been used to improve the quality of science teaching and learning in…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Role, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Larson, Mindy; Burzio, Catherine – National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2017
Youth service professionals in various settings across the United States are responsible for preparing youth and youth adults, ages 12 to 25, to be successful in employment, postsecondary education, and adult life. Whether they work in the public workforce development system or other public agencies (e.g., child welfare, juvenile justice, mental…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Youth Programs, Labor Force Development, Program Design
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Adams, Julie; Duncan Grand, DeAnna – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Historically, deep learning opportunities have occurred in schools attended by this country's most advantaged students, and there have been few successful efforts to systemically create the structures and policies necessary to ensure every student has access to this type of learning. The New Tech Network, a network of more than 200 elementary,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Projects, Public Schools, 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
National Science Foundation, 2016
Graduate education plays a central role in advancing the Nation's science and engineering research enterprise. It is also increasingly the means by which the Nation develops a diverse and highly technical Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) professional workforce. The view that graduate education in STEM disciplines is an…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Graduate Study, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation
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Jones, Griff; Dana, Thomas; LaFramenta, Joanne; Adams, Thomasenia Lott; Arnold, Jason Dean – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The STEM TIPS mobile-ready support platform gives institutions or school districts the ability to provide immediate and customized mentoring to teachers through multiple tiers of web-based support and resources. Using the results of a needs assessment, STEM TIPS was created and launched in partnership with 18 Florida school districts. Further…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mentors
Travers, Jonathan; Catallo, Courtney – Education Resource Strategies, 2015
More and more districts--and several states--are adopting funding models like student-based budgeting (also called weighted student funding or fair student funding) to increase equity and promote principal autonomy. Giving school leaders new resources and new flexibility is a good first step, but it doesn't automatically lead to improved student…
Descriptors: School Districts, Budgets, Financial Support, Resource Allocation
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Lampi, Jodi P.; Dimino, Renee K.; Taylor, Judi Salsburg – Journal of Developmental Education, 2015
The authors write here that they fundamentally believe that developmental education is about social justice. Professionals in this field are not only responsible to implement evidence-based best practices but also to ensure access to higher education. To meet this need, it is imperative that practitioners turn, as a supportive team, to…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Professional Development, Models, Theory Practice Relationship
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Mayotte, Gail; Wei, Dan; Lamphier, Sarah; Doyle, Thomas – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2013
Professional development provides a means to build capacity among school personnel when it is delivered as part of a systematic, long-term approach to school and teacher improvement. This research examines a sustained, diocesan-wide professional development model, called the ACE Collaborative for Academic Excellence, that aims to build capacity…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Change, Catholic Schools, Teacher Improvement
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Moroney, Peter; Boeck, Deena – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2012
This article, based on a presentation at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association Annual Conference, March 29, 2012, provides concepts, terminology, and financial models for establishing and maintaining successful institutional partnerships. The authors offer it as a contribution to developing a wider understanding of the…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Higher Education
Thum, Y. M.; Tarasawa, B.; Hegedus, A.; Yun, X.; Bowe, B. – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2015
In partnership with Joint School District 2 in Meridian, Idaho, this theory-driven study assessed the impact of Keeping Learning on Track® (KLT™), a professional development program pioneered by Dylan Wiliam and his colleagues at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). A team of Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) researchers surveyed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement, School Districts
Rieckhoff, Barbara Stacy; Larsen, Catherine – School-University Partnerships, 2012
Principals are expected to create a vision for their schools with clearly articulated goals for sustainable change. The 2008 Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards provide a strong framework for leadership knowledge, behavior and dispositions. ISLLC Standards 1 and 2 outline the school leader's responsibility in…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Professional Development, Leadership, Principals
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