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Richa Gupta – Childhood Education, 2024
Children living in poverty face numerous challenges that negatively affect their wellbeing and thus their ability to learn. The consequences of poverty that interfere with students' learning include inattentiveness, demotivation, and feelings of powerlessness, shame, and anger. To reach these children, with the goal of helping them become healthy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Well Being, Poverty
Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Amaya Garcia of New America talks with Kappan about grow-your-own programs, in which school districts partner with teacher preparation programs to recruit and prepare community members, often current students or school staff, to teach in local schools. A recent 50-state scan shows that there is a great deal of variety in how these programs are…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Education Programs, Partnerships in Education, Program Design
Bender, Stacy L.; Daniels, Brian; Ryan, Kristen – Communique, 2021
In a collaborative partnership between a public school district in the northeast United States and university faculty, social-emotional/behavioral (SEB) screening was implemented across the district at three elementary schools serving students in kindergarten through second grade. Although both parents and teachers served as informants in SEB…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Screening Tests, Partnerships in Education, School Districts
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Johnson, Kelly Gomez – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2016
Instructional coaching is a reality in many schools today, yet administrators often lack experience or background on how to utilize this professional development model effectively. Instructional coaching can help administrators balance the managerial and instructional leadership responsibilities required of their role. As districts adopt the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Elementary Secondary Education, Administrators, Partnerships in Education
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Wilson, Terri S. – National Education Policy Center, 2017
"Better Evidence, Better Choices, Better Schools," a recent report from the Center for American Progress and the Knowledge Alliance, focuses on the evidence-based research provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA provisions ask districts and schools to consider various sources of evidence, make judgments about the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation
Kelly, Dianne; Fearing, Erik – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
While Massachusetts has received accolades for its high scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) and Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, absolute results from standardized tests tend to correlate strongly with family income and parental education. The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education…
Descriptors: Consortia, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Partnerships in Education
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Wheeler, Keith A.; Hesselink, Frits; Goldstein, Wendy – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
A network of volunteers, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), present some reflections on their contributions towards the field of education for sustainability from 1992 to the present. Many CEC members have been thought leaders to this multidimensional field, and advocates for a more…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Educational Practices, Reflection
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Weinberger, JoAnn – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2015
St. Clair (EJ1072357) provides a summary and lays out some of the important issues inherent in the broad strategies articulated in "Making Skills Everyone's Business: A Call to Transform Adult Learning in the United States" (MSEB) (United States Department of Education [USDoE], 2015) (see ED558793). In this commentary, JoAnn Weinberger…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Strategies
Martin, A. John – School Administrator, 1995
Many share Linda Page's concerns ("A Conservative Christian View on Values," this issue) about our country's crisis of character. Schools must embrace historical moral standards. Page's proposed strategies are inadequate, since release time and Bible clubs reach only a small part of a community's population. A school committed to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Development, Partnerships in Education, Program Implementation
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Mansoor, Inaam – Adult Learning, 1994
Good workplace education partnerships begin with honest assessment of the problems to be addressed, building of a vision or common mission, commitment to shared responsibility, identification of resources, and the decision to act in concert toward achieving common goals. Models include basic two-partner collaborations and multiple-industry or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Models, Needs Assessment, Partnerships in Education
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Koch, Christopher A. – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 1995
Summarizes the role of education-and-business linkages in implementing school-to-work policies at state and local levels and emphasizes the importance of educator and employer partnerships in systemic reform. Identifies barriers to implementation and suggests strategies to overcome them. (JOW)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Partnerships in Education, Program Implementation
Eastin, Delaine; Hatamiya, Lon; Johnson, Grantland; Nussbaum, Thomas J. – 2000
Provides public and system policy recommendations to state and local elected officials, governing bodies, and administrators responsible for the changes needed to create an integrated, comprehensive workforce development system that will sustain California's economic growth. Public policy recommendations include: workforce development services…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Employment
Law, Song Seng; Low, Sock Hwee – 1997
Based on a literature review of factors that affect the provision of learning opportunities for adults and the experiences of Singapore's Institute of Technical Education (ITE), this paper proposes an empirical framework for developing and implementing lifelong learning systems. Following an introduction, the theoretical foundation for the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Planning, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries
Howard Community Coll., Columbia, MD. – 1999
This is a report from a task force formed by Howard Community College (Maryland) to examine existing and future markets. The task force also explored ways to use marketing strategies to attract potential customers to the college. The task force recommends that the college use its strengths to attract customers, such as its commitment to open…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Pfeifer, Gary C.; Carlson, Charles E. – 1993
Since 1987, Dutchess Community College (DCC), in New York, and IBM Corporation have been forging a partnership which revolves around the Manufacturing Technical Training School (MTTS), a program designed to enhance the skills and education of IBM's production workforce. MTTS's three-phase curriculum has evolved to include the changing training…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
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