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Morales-Almazan, Pedro – PRIMUS, 2022
This article explores the parallels between improvisational theater, commonly known as improv, and active teaching. Specifically, it focuses in the impact of improv techniques on instructor and teaching assistant professional development. The implementation of an active teaching seminar is analyzed, where improv techniques were used in developing…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Drama, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Vanourek, Gregg – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2020
Last spring, the Covid-19 pandemic upended routines for over 56 million students and challenged more than 3.7 million teachers in over 130,000 schools nationwide to continue educating kids in an online format. This transition to "virtual learning" was understandably trying for all educators, schools, and districts, but some managed to do…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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McLean, Mandy; Nation, Jasmine M.; Spina, Alexis; Susko, Tyler; Harlow, Danielle; Bianchini, Julie – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2020
Research suggests that, to narrow the gender gap in engineering, we should focus on helping young girls identify with engineering both because gendered attitudes emerge around kindergarten and because identity is more predictive than performance on persistence in the field. This qualitative study sought to understand the impact of collaborative…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education
Gallagher, H. Alix; Gong, Angela; Hough, Heather J.; Kennedy, Kate; Allbright, Taylor; Daramola, Eupha Jeanne – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
California's shift towards continuous improvement in education makes understanding how districts and schools can learn to improve a more pressing question than ever. The CORE Improvement Community (CIC), a network of California school districts engaged in learning about improvement together, is an important testing ground to learn about what this…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Districts, Mathematics Achievement, African American Students
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Wong, Wang-chan – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D) is the cornerstone course of a traditional information system curriculum. Conventionally, it is a sequence of two courses with the second course dedicated to the completion of a project. However, it has recently become more common to reduce the two-course sequence into one, especially for IS departments that…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Design, Blended Learning, Entrepreneurship
Grantee Submission, 2015
The Schools to Watch: School Transformation Network Project is a whole school reform model designed to improve the educational practices, experiences, and outcomes of low-performing middle-grades schools. Developed by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, the four-year project was funded in 2010 by a U.S. Department of Education…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Quasiexperimental Design, Program Effectiveness
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Nguyen, Thuy; Hughes, Margaret – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2012
This study examined the perspectives of professionals and parents on part-time inclusive preschool Head Start programs that included both children with and without disabilities. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine parent and teacher perspectives of inclusion on the developmental outcomes of all children and (b) to investigate…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities, Inclusion
Guerrero, Frank C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Since the inception of a "Nation at Risk" (1983) and the gradual growth of the school reform movement over the following several decades, the social and political milieu that exist today under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) can be best described as an era in which public education is fending itself from extinction and takeover, often from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Teamwork, Program Effectiveness
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Milton, John G.; Radunskaya, Ami E.; Lee, Arthur H.; de Pillis, Lisette G.; Bartlett, Diana F. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
The success of interdisciplinary research teams depends largely upon skills related to team performance. We evaluated student and team performance for undergraduate biology and mathematics students who participated in summer research projects conducted in off-campus laboratories. The student teams were composed of a student with a mathematics…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Biology, Mathematics, Student Research
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Ruby, Susan F.; Crosby-Cooper, Tricia; Vanderwood, Michael L. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2011
With national attention on scaling up the implementation of Response to Intervention, problem solving teams remain one of the central components for development, implementation, and monitoring of school-based interventions. Studies have shown that problem solving teams evidence a sound theoretical base and demonstrated efficacy; however, limited…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Problem Solving
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Walsh, David S.; Ozaeta, Jimmy; Wright, Paul M. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2010
Background: The Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model (TPSR) has been used throughout the USA and in several other countries to integrate systematically life skill development within physical activity-based programs. While TPSR is widely used in practice and has a growing empirical base, few studies have examined the degree of…
Descriptors: Models, Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Objectives
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Lundblad, Heidemarie; Wilson, Barbara A. – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
The Department of Accounting at California State University Northridge (CSUN) has developed a unique sequence of courses designed to ensure that accounting students are trained not only in technical accounting, but also acquire critical thinking, research and communication skills. The courses have proven effective and have embedded assessment…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Critical Thinking, Accounting
Route-Chatmon, LaShawn – Horace, 2007
The Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) has been working to build the capacity of people to transform the educational experiences and outcomes of underserved students in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area for more than 15 years. BayCES supports people in urban districts and schools undergoing reform efforts to improve their…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Small Schools, Equal Education, Colleges
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Caring School Community[TM]" ("CSC") is a modified version of a program formerly known as the "Child Development Project." The program aims to promote core values, prosocial behavior, and a schoolwide feeling of community. The program consists of four elements originally developed for the "Child Development…
Descriptors: Values, Quasiexperimental Design, Prosocial Behavior, Child Development
Bonney, Lewis A. – 1972
The development and implementation of a humanistic educational management system in a large urban school district has been associated with demonstrable changes in organizational climate. The management system is humanistic in that teachers and principals select their educational priorities based on student needs and mutually agree with supervisors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Decision Making
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