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West Virginia Department of Education, 2024
The Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program is a formula grant program maintained by the Office of Academic Improvement within the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the United States Department of Education (USED) to support the "creation of community learning centers that provide academic…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Literacy, Numeracy, Interpersonal Competence
Hammer, Patricia Cahape; Hixson, Nate – West Virginia Department of Education, 2015
As the final stage of West Virginia's rollout of the Next Generation Content Standards and Objectives (NxGen CSOs), the regional education service agencies (RESAs) conducted six train-the-trainer events in the spring of 2013 to prepare educators--mostly teachers--to provide professional development back in their home schools and districts. These…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Stohr, Amber – West Virginia Department of Education, 2013
The Special Education Technology Integration Specialist (SETIS) program was created through an expansion of the Technology Integration Specialist (TIS) program. The original TIS program was designed to provide and coordinate professional development activities for all teachers and administrators on a school-level basis to assist them in becoming…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Hammer, Patricia Cahape – West Virginia Department of Education, 2014
This evaluation study examined the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of the statewide master plan for professional development (PD Master Plan) by investigating seven questions. With regard to effectiveness, (1) What was the level of implementation for the PD Master Plan, overall and by individual providers? (2) What were the impediments, if…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Staff Development, Program Implementation, Professional Personnel
Whisman, Andy – West Virginia Department of Education, 2013
The 4-year federal Safe and Supportive Schools (S3) program supports targeted interventions to improve and measure conditions for learning at the high school level. For 2011-2012 (Year 2), two evaluation questions were investigated: (EQ1) To what extent do participating schools implement the program with fidelity relative to the WV Model for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Improvement, High Schools, Educational Environment
Hammer, Patricia Cahape – West Virginia Department of Education, 2014
In this evaluation, as in previous years, four main aspects of the implementation of the West Virginia Board of Education's Master Plan for Statewide Professional Development were examined: (a) basic information reported by providers about the size and scope of the effort, including attendance, and adherence to the newly adopted standards for…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Statewide Planning, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Hixson, Nate – West Virginia Department of Education, 2012
We conducted an evaluation study of the Middle School Algebra Readiness Initiative, a middle school mathematics intervention that was implemented in two West Virginia school districts during the 2011-2012 school year. In participating middle schools, the Carnegie Learning MATHia® software intervention and accompanying classroom curriculum were…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Algebra, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction