This research examines teachers' perspectives of a summer research experience for urban science teachers at an urban university with an ongoing commitment to support under-resourced schools. The program is a collaboration between the Colleges of Engineering and Education, and was developed to support urban science teachers' understanding of…

This is an historical and comparative paper that examines the importance of women's educational organizations across time and space and the deliberative attempts of individual members to advocate for the expansion of their professional knowledge, expertise and reach. Specifically, the historical spotlight is turned on the International Federation…

This descriptive study investigated the challenges related to implementing gifted education services in preschool centers. Participants completed a researcher-created survey to examine the perceived challenges of providing preschool gifted education services. Ninety-five percent of the centers had no formal policies or practices, and eighty-six…

There has been a growing emphasis among education policymakers on coaching as an important aspect of professional learning for school leaders. This paper describes a qualitative study of long-term leadership coaching for school principals. The study aims to fill the gap in the literature on coaching for experienced leaders and, reflecting the 2019…

Although the contributions of mentoring to leadership development have been documented, recent literature has advocated for the more proactive strategy of "sponsorship." Hewlett (2013) describes sponsorship as being transactional, with both parties fully invested in the professional success of the other. In this paper we will report on…

Evaluators have opportunities to advance equity within evaluations, yet little research has examined whether and how evaluators center equity in evaluation practice. This paper explores whether and how evaluators in New England address inequities and advance equity throughout evaluation phases. The study uses a complementarity, sequential mixed…

This study investigated how teachers' professional learning is influenced by their implicit goals and beliefs. A path model that attempts to explain variation in teachers' professional learning was tested. A new variable, teacher mindset, was developed to operationalize teachers' conceptions about teaching ability. The model explores how teacher…

Most teachers participate in professional development of some kind at some point in their careers, yet many teachers report that professional development neither supports their practice nor improves learning. Thus, more work needs to be done on how professional development can meet those needs. In this study, a group of educators created a…

Teachers learn about technology integration through formal, informal, and independent modes, forming their systems of practice for professional learning. Within the context of a technology leadership intervention study, we used multiple linear regressions to investigate relationships between teachers' frequency of participation in each learning…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of adaptive leadership on pre-service teacher's efficacious beliefs in the learning organizations of professional development schools during the internship practicum. Teacher efficacy was based upon Tschannen-Moran and Hoy's (2001) Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale which included three sub-scales:…

I investigated my role as a mentor co-teaching with an intern in a Professional Development School (PDS) context through the use of self-study. This ten-month study illustrated my co-teaching experience with my intern to determine what conditions I found necessary to foster a successful partnership and whether I experienced transformations in my…

Research over the past 35 years consistently reveals that principals spend minimal amounts of time on instructional leadership activities. Similarly, we know very little about how principals might be trained to change their time allocation to focus more on instructional leadership tasks. The paper describes the implementation and the time use of…

This case study is an examination of the impact of writing professional development at an urban K-5 public elementary school in a large Southern city. The purpose of this study was to investigate how university faculty can initiate and cultivate a writing community in partnership with a local urban elementary faculty, examining beliefs,…

The Math for All (MFA) qualitative research team approached the randomized control trial (RCT) mixed methods investigation from a "pragmatic" perspective (Cresswell and Plano-Clark, 2011), that is, the belief that multiple realities can exist and that neither a qualitative nor quantitative approach is valued over the other. Further, the…

Instructional coaching initiatives, primarily aimed at enhancing teachers' professional development, have become a popular avenue of school reform in districts across the United States. However, the precise role that instructional coaches should play in these reforms has largely remained ambiguous and unspecified. Further, not much is known about…