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Joe Anistranski; Karen Harper; Stephanie Zeiger – Learning Professional, 2024
Educators and researchers often think of program design and program evaluation as separate endeavors, even intentionally creating a firewall between them. But what if designers and evaluators worked together, combining their insights to strengthen both the program and the study of it? In the work of evaluating a statewide professional learning…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Evaluation, Professional Development, State Legislation
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Doreen L. Mazzye; Joan Gujarati – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2024
Purpose: Research in this field is becoming increasingly clear that a teacher residency program (TRP) has a strong potential for developing effective teachers in a teacher preparation context. There are specific features of a TRP that yield results in the development of teachers. However, there are often barriers to full implementation of a TRP…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence
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Erica Gilbertson; Amy Murphy; Sonia Janis; Kathy Thompson; Michael Harris – School-University Partnerships, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this action research study was to design, implement and evaluate interventions that enhanced the induction program for new teachers in a P-12 school district. At the outset, we hoped the study would provide new teacher support resulting in improved teaching practices, increased job satisfaction and/or increased teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
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Coffield, Julie A.; Choi, Jasmine; Choi, Ikseon; Walker, Brandy B.; Walters, Katherine; Hill, Janette R.; Kim, Sejin; Rechtman, Janet E.; Carmichael, K. Paige; Pidaparti, Ramana; Welch-Devine, Meredith – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
The fast-paced advances in technology and scientific knowledge in the 21st century call for learners to possess professional skills that complement their technical skills to make meaningful contributions in communities. This article introduces a cross-disciplinary leadership training program, Graduate Scholars Leadership, Engagement, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Leadership Training, Professional Development, Problem Solving
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McKeown, Janet K. L.; Rich, Kyle – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
Many recreation and leisure professionals are looking for opportunities to upgrade their skills and knowledge in the context of their work. For some professionals that involves returning to post-secondary education. Yet, most undergraduate degree programs are designed in formats for students who are assumed to have little prior professional…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Leisure Education
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Cormier, Dwayne Ray – School-University Partnerships, 2021
In this article, the author summarizes his efforts to design the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol (CPCDP), a tool purposed to assess and codify educators' cultural competence. The design and development of the CPCDP took place within four school-university partnerships (e.g., Professional Development School and Hybrid Partnership).…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Cultural Awareness, Student Diversity, Partnerships in Education
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Kalir, Jeremiah Holden – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is threefold--to describe the equity-oriented design of a publicly accessible and openly networked computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) initiative that has supported educator discussion about equity topics; to identify design principles for equity-oriented design in open education; and to propose a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Shared Resources and Services, Networks, Cooperative Learning
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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Sanchez, Jafeth E.; Burnham, Melissa M.; Zaki, Salwa – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2019
In order to better serve our nation's youth, educational leadership preparation programs must be willing to transform current preparation practices. This paper emphasizes the need to develop high quality school leaders to successfully create and sustain necessary changes in schools. The dynamic transformation of a principal preparation program,…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Administrator Education, College School Cooperation, School Districts
Sugarman, Julie – Migration Policy Institute, 2017
Immigrant and refugee youth who enter the United States during their secondary school years face a daunting set of challenges. In addition to learning a new language and adjusting to U.S. classroom norms, they must quickly fill gaps in their subject-matter knowledge and pass the courses required to graduate high school before aging out of the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, High School Students, Immigrants, Refugees
St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE) is a national effort to improve STEM education and workforce development by transforming how the next generation of scientists and engineers teach and mentor. Housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ISEE is the legacy of the educational side of the Center for Adaptive Optics…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Course Improvement Projects, Labor Force Development, Professional Development
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Heafner, Tina; McIntyre, Ellen; Spooner, Melba – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
Responding to the challenge of more rigorous and outcome-oriented program evaluation criteria of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), authors take a critical look at the intersection of two standards: Clinical Partnerships and Practice (Standard 2) and Program Impact (Standard 4). Illustrating one aspect of a secondary…
Descriptors: Standards, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Research, Program Effectiveness
St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is a program that seeks to develop a skilled local STEM workforce to meet the needs of Hawai'i's growing high-tech industry. Launched as an internship program in 2002, AWI is the result of a long-term collaboration among the University of California Santa Cruz's Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Descriptions, Educational Development, Labor Force Development
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Cawthon, Stephanie W.; Dawson, Kathryn M.; Judd-Glossy, Laura; Ihorn, Shasta – Teacher Development, 2012
Drama for Schools (DFS) is an arts integration professional development program rooted in critical pedagogy and constructivism that emphasizes partnerships between school districts and a major research university. As a part of the research initiative embedded in this professional development program, DFS began an Arts integration Research Teacher…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Critical Theory, Participatory Research, Program Effectiveness
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Totterdell, Michael; Hathaway, Tanya; la Velle, Linda – Professional Development in Education, 2011
The design and early implementation of a major national design initiative in England, the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), is described in this paper. This novel hybrid master's degree seeks to span the traditional academic-practitioner divide, reconstitute the theory-practice dynamic as reciprocal and co-construct an authentic signature…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Program Design, Foreign Countries, Career Development
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