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Direct linkLori W. Silver – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research in the area of organizational learning has focused upon division leaders and the contexts that drive policy, reform, and professional learning in the area of literacy. The purpose of this case study was to examine the ways and means through which district leaders perceived their experiences within an organizational learning context of a…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Literacy, School Districts, Leaders
Peer reviewedMichael Giamellaro; Benjamin Ewing; Deborah Siegel – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
School change is difficult and is both leveraged and hindered by interactive influences within complex systems of social practice. Whole-school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is a growing trend with unique aspects of change required of educators. A qualitative case study was used to analyze educator perspectives of the…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Program Implementation, Student Projects
Niu Gao; Saayili Budhiraja; Tianyi Dong; Yoony Lee; Emmanuel Prunty – Grantee Submission, 2024
California schools received over $60 billion from federal and state stimulus funding to help students recover from the pandemic. This infographic summarizes the major programs districts have implemented during the 2022-23 school year. Most districts extended learning time and hired instructional supports, but few provided high-dosage tutoring.…
Descriptors: School Districts, COVID-19, Pandemics, Program Implementation
Mikaela Moore; Phoebe Balascio; Tausha Bonner-Johnson; José Garth; Britney Brinkman; Ashley V. Hill – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Comprehensive sex and sexuality education (CSE) is an evidence-based intervention associated with improved sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Currently, there are no standardized requirements for sex and sexuality education in the United States, despite expert recommendations. Contributions to Theory: In the United States, a…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation, School Districts
Ashley McLain Westmoreland – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to conduct a program evaluation case study on the impact of standards-based grading in a North Carolina school district. The implementation procedures and end products of grading reform were assessed using the CIPP model. Data from teacher questionnaires, principal implementation checklists, interviews, and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Case Studies, Academic Standards, Grading
A. Chris Torres; Sandy Frost Waldron; Jason Burns – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
This mixed-method study examines Michigan's Partnership policy for school turnaround, which positions the district and superintendents as key policy implementation actors. We first interviewed 21 of 35 Partnership superintendents/leaders across Michigan and surveyed teachers to understand the initial response to the turnaround policy and the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Superintendents, School Districts, School Turnaround
Barrett-Tatum, Jennifer; Ashworth, Kristen – Journal of Educational Change, 2021
What happens when a state's literacy reform policy allows for ownership and individualized diversification of the policy's instructional mandates at the level of district and school? How do systems and individuals experience the change in reform and respond to both the power and the pressures of having to design and implement their own literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Accountability, School Districts
Genvieve Dorsey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research was a descriptive study in which the researcher explored the beginning phases of Ethnic Studies implementation in a Kindergarten through Eighth grade (K-8) school district in Northern California. Using a social justice lens, and through a review of Ethnic Studies, Collective Efficacy, Critical Consciousness, and School Culture…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Program Implementation, School Districts, Elementary Schools
Reigeluth, Charles M.; Karnopp, Jennifer R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Systemic change is far more difficult than piecemeal reforms because it requires far more interrelated and interdependent sets of changes to occur. Systemic change has two potential areas of failure: (1) the change process (action) may never reach full implementation of the new system, and (2) the new system (vision) may not be well designed. This…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Systems Approach, Program Development, Program Implementation
Wong, Lok-Sze – American Journal of Education, 2023
Purpose: System reforms ask educators within and across organizational levels to interlace their individual practices into a collective practice so they can enact a different, more equitable schooling system for students. System reforms require educators to coordinate their work with their colleagues in ways they are not trained, incentivized, or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes, Schemata (Cognition)
Robert Shand; Stephen M. Leach; Fiona M. Hollands; Bo Yan; Dena Dossett; Florence Chang; Yilin Pan – Grantee Submission, 2024
This research-practice partnership (RPP) focused on developing and testing metrics and tools to foster improved evidence-based budgetary decision-making. The expectation was that research findings would directly influence decisions about program expansion, contraction, or elimination. Instead, unexpected findings led to unexpected uses: changes in…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Budgets, Decision Making
Robert Shand; Stephen M. Leach; Fiona M. Hollands; Bo Yan; Dena Dossett; Florence Chang; Yilin Pan – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Our research-practice partnership (RPP) focused on developing and testing metrics and tools to foster improved evidence-based budgetary decision-making. We expected our research findings to directly influence decisions about program expansion, contraction, or elimination. Instead, unexpected findings led to unexpected uses: changes in program…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Budgets, Decision Making
Download full textContann Dabney, Contributor; Terry Hofer, Contributor; Beth Jackson, Contributor; Smriti Jacob, Contributor; Jeannine Medvedich, Contributor; Andrew Morrill, Contributor; Shakinna Patterson, Contributor; Joe Sassone, Contributor; Giselle Sherry-Marsh, Contributor; Andrew Swanson, Contributor; Ashleigh Tillman, Contributor; Susan Villani, Contributor; Melinda Wallace, Contributor; Noel White, Contributor – WestEd, 2025
This guide was developed for district leaders and leadership teams to use as a supplement to the "Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework" and its related survey system. The Four Domains framework, from WestEd's Center for School Turnaround and Improvement, was created to assist states, districts, and schools as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, School Districts
Brian Jones; Julie Cassie; Caryn Ward – State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center, 2024
Context matters in implementation. The Lenawee ISD (LISD) in Michigan navigated implementation through major changes in its school district's administration and the COVID-19 pandemic. The district highlighted in the impact story experienced leadership change in the District Superintendent position and three school principal positions. The district…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Program Implementation, School Districts
Akiba, Motoko; Howard, Cassandra – Educational Policy, 2023
The Race to the Top (RTTT) program incentivized states to use innovation for systemwide improvement of student outcomes, but little is known about how RTTT-funded innovation was sustained after the RTTT program ended. This mixed-methods study examined state and district approaches to sustaining an international innovation called "lesson…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
