Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
Academic Achievement | 42 |
Program Descriptions | 42 |
Staff Development | 42 |
Program Evaluation | 24 |
Program Effectiveness | 22 |
English (Second Language) | 16 |
Parent Participation | 15 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 14 |
Bilingual Education | 13 |
Bilingual Education Programs | 13 |
Curriculum Development | 11 |
More ▼ |
Source
Educational Leadership | 2 |
Equity and Choice | 1 |
Journal of Education Finance | 1 |
Online Submission | 1 |
Principal | 1 |
Principal Leadership | 1 |
Author
Lynch, Joanne | 3 |
Choonoo, John | 2 |
Musante, Patricia | 2 |
Slavin, Robert E. | 2 |
Agado, Gloria Ale | 1 |
Berney, Tomi D. | 1 |
Blackadar, Ann Riley | 1 |
Cervenka, Edward J. | 1 |
Clarke, Candice | 1 |
Cox, William N. | 1 |
Crowther, Sandee | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
High Schools | 1 |
Audience
Practitioners | 3 |
Administrators | 1 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
District of Columbia | 4 |
New York (New York) | 3 |
California | 1 |
Colorado | 1 |
Iowa | 1 |
North Carolina | 1 |
Pennsylvania | 1 |
Texas | 1 |
Texas (Austin) | 1 |
Virginia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Washington, Wanda – Online Submission, 2008
This interim report summarizes NCLB Title I Part A funded services that support eligible students and staff at participating private non-profit schools in the Austin Independent School District's (AISD) attendance zone between 2004 and 2006. AISD as the fiscal agent of Title I funds is responsible for oversight and management of these funds as…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Private Schools

Crowther, Sandee – Educational Leadership, 1998
Lawrence (Kansas) Public Schools has discovered that four components--clear expectations, focus on results, effective support systems, and good modeling--have substantially helped staff keep pace with constant societal and educational changes. The program's success may be attributed to six components: a professional development council,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Program Descriptions
Agado, Gloria Ale; Ovando, Martha N. – 1998
This paper describes how staff development contributed to the effectiveness of four elementary schools along the south-Texas border. It attempts to determine the use of the strategies and techniques developed during staff development, the types of assistance teachers received to enable them to apply new techniques, and the differences teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Manatt, Richard P.; Kemis, Mari – Principal, 1997
The School Improvement Model launched by the Iowa State University College of Education in 1964 uses a total-system approach to measure and report teacher performance. SIM focuses on student achievement and emphasizes validity, reliability, discrimination, and 360-degree feedback from principals, other teachers, parents, and students. A Wyoming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Feedback
Cervenka, Edward J.; Rodriguez-Munoz, Juan – 1979
The Rafael Cordero Bilingual School (RCBS) provides a basic program in bilingual education for junior high school students. During the 1978-1979 school year, approximately 20% of enrolled students were English-dominant and 80% were Spanish-dominant. The program serves its major educational function as a way-station for bilingual students coming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Junior High Schools
McCarthy, Ellen H. – Principal Leadership, 2005
School administrators, eager to raise student achievement levels to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, are increasingly looking to staff development as a means to enhance student achievement. In this article, the author describes how Mountain View Alternative High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, an alternative high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Staff Development, Focus Groups, Program Descriptions
Fox, Louise W.; Fox, David J. – 1979
The primary goals of the Program for Achievement in Chinese and English and Spanish was to provide for the special linguistic, academic, and cultural needs of Chinese and Spanish speaking students in grades seven, eight, and nine. Program activities capitalized on students' native language proficiency while they developed competency in English.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Chinese, English (Second Language)

Cummings, Carol; Haggerty, Kevin P. – Educational Leadership, 1997
Notes that teaching social and emotional skills can have a long-term positive effect on academic achievement. The University of Washington's Raising Healthy Children Project tries to reduce children's risk of developing problems in adolescence by providing interventions that bond students to family and school. The program features staff…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Benefits, Elementary Education, Family Programs
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
The Minigrant Program for the Academically Gifted was established to provide the necessary support and instructional challenges to disadvantaged minority students capable of superior academic performance. During the 1979-1980 school year, 500 gifted or talented elementary and junior high school students were served. Additional program components…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Cox, William N. – 1982
High quality instructional supervision can be provided when educational objectives have been stated clearly and a strong staff development program has been instituted. The success of the staff development program used in the Newport News (Virginia) Public Schools is dependent on several prerequisites: the existence of clearly established district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Education and Human Resources. – 1993
This packet of materials describes the Partnerships for Minority Achievement (PMSA) Project of the National Science Foundation (NSF). PMSA is a comprehensive precollege program that builds on the NSF strategy of forging alliances and partnerships for systemic reform. The partnerships identify successful models in the public and private sectors to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Minority Groups
Choonoo, John – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the Bilingual Readiness for Achieving through Valued Opportunities (Project BRAVO), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its first year of operation at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn (New York) and Louis D. Brandeis High School in Manhattan (New York). Participating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
During the 1979-1980 school year, 16 severely emotionally disturbed secondary school students participated in the Youth in Psychoeducational Services (YIPS) program. The program provided intensive academic and behavioral treatment, family counseling, and staff development activities. YIPS was evaluated using a model that required the comparison of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Matthews, Tom; Fong, Susan – 1981
This is a descriptive summary of the characteristics of bilingual students and programs in Seattle, Washington for 1976-1980. The first section presents information on Seattle's students from non-English language backgrounds in regard to their English fluency, language group membership, family income, residential patterns, and by their attrition…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Cultural and Humanistic Educational Systems and Services, Inc., Diamond Bar, CA. – 1979
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII program instituted by the public schools of the District of Columbia serves approximately 1600 students in 14 elementary school sites and includes both Spanish/English and Chinese/English components. This evaluation report details the progress of Title VII bilingual education towards meeting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Chinese, Elementary Education