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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
Hammer, Patricia Cahape; Hixson, Nate – West Virginia Department of Education, 2014
This is the first of three evaluation reports on the effectiveness of a regional train-the-trainer strategy to support classroom implementation of the Next Generation Content Standards and Objectives (NxGen CSOs). This report focuses on six regional Educator Enhancement Academies (EEAs) hosted by the eight regional education service agencies…
Descriptors: Trainers, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Teacher Educator Education
Ausburn, Jerry Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This descriptive study of the twenty regional Education Service Centers in Texas is an exploratory analysis of programs and services that promote school improvement. Data collected from each service center website enabled the researcher to determine which programs and services are available to school districts and also allowed the researcher to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change
Scott, Caitlin; McMurrer, Jennifer; McIntosh, Shelby – Center on Education Policy, 2012
Two schools in Idaho received ARRA SIG (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act School Improvement Grants) funds to enable them to implement improvement efforts. This paper describes the outcomes of these two ARRA SIG recipient schools: (1) Jefferson Middle School; and (2) Lakeside Elementary School. The experiences of this non-recipient school is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Elementary Schools
Scott, Caitlin; Dibner, Kenne – Center on Education Policy, 2012
Two schools in Michigan received ARRA SIG (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act School Improvement Grants) funds to enable them to implement their improvement efforts. This paper describes the outcomes of these two ARRA SIG recipient schools: (1) Phoenix Elementary-Middle School; and (2) Arthur Hill High School. The experiences of these…
Descriptors: Grants, High Schools, Elementary Schools, Case Studies
Nafukho, Fredrick M.; Graham, Carroll M.; Brooks, Kit – Online Submission, 2008
This study was designed to determine the degree of use, level of client satisfaction of professional development and educational services, and to identify suggestions for improving services. Results from a mixed methodology approach indicated moderate to high levels of satisfaction in two program areas and moderate to high levels of…
Descriptors: Participant Satisfaction, Professional Development, Human Resources, Technical Support
Casper, Paul N.; Roecks, Alan L. – 1980
The practical side of a program evaluation as performed at a Texas Education Service Center supporting and serving 50 school districts of 14 counties in South Texas is described. The role of the evaluators as perceived by the users of the evaluation and the procedures for evaluating programs several levels away from students who are to feel the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Education Service Centers, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Regional English Center (Singapore). – 1969
The regional seminar on the evaluation of the Teacher Education Program (TEP) tryout was held at the Regional English Language Center (RELC) in 1968. The seminar's purpose was to determine the usefulness of TEP in preparing teachers of English as a second language in the RELC member countries in Southeast Asia. This document is the seminar report.…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs, Institutes (Training Programs)
Minkler, Elton D. – 1971
During fiscal year 1971, the Oregon State Migrant Education Program, funded by the Title I Migrant Amendment, enrolled 6,099 students in grades K-12. Of these, 4,092 were enrolled in the regular school term and 2,007 were enrolled in summer programs. The Migrant Education Service Center expanded on its provision of diagnostic and prescriptive…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Community Involvement, Education Service Centers, Educational Programs
Kemis, Mari; Lively, Mandi – 1995
This report evaluates the activities from February 1, 1994 to May 31, 1995 of the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University. The center's purpose is to support training of elementary and secondary school foreign language teachers. Initiatives of the center focus on professional development in three areas: use of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Study Centers, Education Service Centers, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin.
Ten of the twenty Education Service Centers (ESC) that provide instructional and technical services to the local school districts in Texas were asked to participate in a project designed to demonstrate infusion and management techniques in career education. Activities were accomplished under the following objectives: (1) establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Proller, Norman L. – 1984
The 1983-84 Center for Urban/Minority Education (CUME) Project, funded by the Education Consolidation Improvement Act, (ECIA) Chapter II, was designed to address the needs of teachers, administrators, and parents of schools serving low-income/minority students in Dade County, Florida. However, the substantial reduction in funding from the amount…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
Fairfax County Schools, Baileys Crossroads, VA. Center for Effecting Educational Change. – 1968
In this final report, 17 special consultants view from the perspective of their own specialities the future of the Projects to Advance Creativity in Education (PACE) program funded under ESEA Title III. The 17 individually authored reports approach the problem of whether or not this innovative and creative program has been afflicted with loss of…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Education Service Centers