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Showalter, Brent; Gamboa-Turner, Valentina – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
While new teachers are often ill-equipped to address and discuss issues of race and culture, especially with students of color (Milner & Laughter, 2014), teacher preparation programs can provide candidates with safe spaces to explore these concepts. This study presents findings from student enrollees in redesigned teacher education courses at…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
Fatout, Brad – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
During the 2013-14 school year, I became involved in the National Center for Scaling Up Effective Schools (NCSU) project, a partnership of the Broward County Public School District with Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Florida State University, and Education Development Center. The purpose of NCSU is to help…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Educational Innovation, Social Development, Emotional Development
Allen, David F. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
Academic confidence cultivated within the context of learning communities may be an important key to student success. This study examined the structural relationships of four constructs on academic performance and persistence for summer bridge learning community (SBLC) and non-SBLC members. Constructs included (1) student background, (2) academic…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Freshmen, Student Educational Objectives, Intention