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Berg, Juliette; Silander, Megan; Bowdon, Jill; O'Dwyer, Laura; Dunn-Grandpre, Hannah – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Chicago Public Schools is working to improve early literacy outcomes through a multiyear professional development initiative for preK-2 teachers. The P-2 Balanced Literacy Initiative aims to improve literacy instruction by training teachers to implement effective early literacy instruction balancing systematic foundational skills instruction with…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Chicago Public Schools is working to improve early literacy outcomes through a multiyear professional development initiative for preK-2 teachers. This initiative--the P-2 Balanced Literacy Initiative--aims to improve literacy instruction by training teachers to balance systematic foundational skills instruction with reading and writing instruction…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Berg, J.; Silander, M.; Bowdon, J.; O'Dwyer, L.; Dunn-Grandpre, H. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Chicago Public Schools is working to improve early literacy outcomes through a multiyear professional development initiative for preK-2 teachers. The P-2 Balanced Literacy Initiative aims to improve literacy instruction by training teachers to implement effective early literacy instruction balancing systematic foundational skills instruction with…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Chicago Public Schools is working to improve early literacy outcomes through a multiyear professional development initiative for preK-2 teachers. This initiative--the P-2 Balanced Literacy Initiative--aims to improve literacy instruction by training teachers to balance systematic foundational skills instruction with reading and writing instruction…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Zhang, Xin; Admiraal, Wilfried; Saab, Nadira – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
Teachers' motivation to participate in professional learning is a significant factor in explaining the effectiveness of continuous professional development programmes. The present study investigated how factors at teachers' personal and school levels are related to their motivation to participate in professional learning activities. A…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Professional Development
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Ke, Zheng; Yin, Hongbiao; Huang, Shenghua – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
Although Chinese teachers commonly participate in school-based professional development activities, there is a remarkable scarcity of large-scale quantitative research into the effectiveness of teacher professional development in China, which is characterised as an institutionalised practice. Based on a conceptual framework applying recent…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
Weaver, D'Andre Jovan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As a result of the national shift to a more standards-based model for education, principals across the country are leading organizational change in all aspects of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership for student learning. One reform initiative, entitled standards-based grading (SBG), attempts to reimagine the way schools measure and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Grading, Standards
Novak, Renata Pessoa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This applied dissertation was designed to verify the effectiveness of professional learning communities (PLC), as it relates to the participation of administrators and teachers. Prior studies have emphasized the importance of continuing learning experiences for school administrators while working. Chiptin (2013) pointed out the importance of a…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Interprofessional Relationship, Communities of Practice, Mixed Methods Research
Phillips, Andrea; Kaufman, Julia H.; Pane, John F.; Lee, Emma; Bogart, Andy – RAND Corporation, 2019
This report presents findings from RAND's evaluation of the Appalachian Renaissance Initiative (ARI) in 17 districts totaling 99 kindergarten-12th grade schools within the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC). The initiative took place from the 2014-2015 through 2017-2018 academic years. The evaluation examined various aspects of ARI…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Odili, John Nwanibeze; Ebisine, Sele Sylvester; Ajuar, Helen Nwakaife – Online Submission, 2011
The study investigated teachers' involvement in implementing the basic science and technology curriculum in primary schools in WSLGA (Warri South Local Government Area) of Delta State. It sought to identify the availability of the document in primary schools and teachers' knowledge of the objectives and activities specified in the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Technology Education, Science Education
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Benoliel, Pascale; Somech, Anit – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: This study seeks to explore the moderating role of teachers' personality traits from the Big Five typology on the relationship between participative management and teacher outcomes with respect to performance, satisfaction and strain. The study suggests that participative management may produce different results depending on teachers'…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teacher Participation, School Organization, Personality
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Sartoris, Mary; Bickel, Donna DiPrima; Garnier, Helen E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: This study investigated the relationship between principal leadership and variation in teachers' participation in a new literacy coaching program: Content-Focused Coaching[R] (CFC). Research design: Twenty-nine schools were randomly assigned to participate in the CFC program or to serve as a comparison. Interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Coaching (Performance), Literacy
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Chikoko, Vitallis – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Debates about decentralisation, involving questions such as who should make decisions about public schooling and who should pay for it [Caillods, F., 1999. Preface. In: McGinn, N., Welsh, T. (Eds.), Decentralization of Education: Why, When, What and How? UNESCO, Paris] have permeated and affected educational planning in the last 20 or so years.…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Finance, Principals, Administrator Role
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Margolis, Jason – Teaching Education, 2008
This article explores the social and professional dynamics "when teachers face teachers" seeking to impact colleagues' instructional practices to improve student learning. Specifically, it examines a group of 40 teachers leading staff development sessions at their schools in an effort to bring more literacy strategies into the pedagogies of…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Peer Influence, Teaching Styles, Teaching Methods
Marx, Gary E. – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2007
The No Child Left Behind emphasis on teacher quality and its relationship to student achievement has made teacher evaluation an area of increased concern for today's high school principal. Numerous problems associated with the evaluation of teachers have been cited in the literature, including lack of agreement on what constitutes good teaching,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Principals, Feedback (Response)
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