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Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Woo, Ashley; Kaufman, Julia H. – RAND Corporation, 2023
This report uses data from the RAND Corporation's American Educator Panels to understand the state of infrastructure to support elementary social studies instruction during the 2021-2022 school year. The report is focused at the elementary (specifically, kindergarten through grade 5 [K-5]) level because the authors hypothesized that infrastructure…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Teacher Evaluation, Professional Development
Herman, Joan L.; Wang, Jia; La Torre, Deborah; Epstein, Scott; Leon, Seth – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2020
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) was created in 2009 to support schools' implementation of rigorous college and career ready standards for English language arts (ELA). Combining evidence-based principles of professional development with a systematic design process, LDC helps teachers to embed literacy skill development throughout their…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Urban Schools, Skill Development, Professional Development
Illingworth, Amy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
One district, South Bay Union School District, devises and executes a comprehensive strategy that includes training for district staff, teachers and coaches, including using PLCs and professional development in the implementation of Common Core English language arts standards.
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Language Arts, English Instruction, School Districts
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Pellegrino, Anthony; Zenkov, Kristien; Sell, Corey; Calamito, Nicholas – School-University Partnerships, 2014
The study of a middle school social studies project this article addresses occurred in the national capital region of the United States, where perceptions of ''patriotism'' and xenophobic immigration policies were the subjects of frequent media reports. With this examination the authors considered the overarching research question ''How do middle…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, College School Cooperation, Professional Development Schools, Citizenship Education
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Gerber, Hannah R.; Price, Debra P. – Educational Media International, 2013
This paper discusses how practicing teachers conceptualize commercial off the shelf (COTS) videogames within classroom-based English language arts instruction. Understanding how today's teachers perceive virtual worlds and videogames as an instructional tool for schema building within literacy development will help researchers better understand…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Professional Development, Video Games, Teaching Methods
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Roach, Audra K.; Beck, Jessica J. – Language Arts, 2012
And so a middle school language arts teacher begins her Saturday. Before coffee, Facebook. In this themed issue on professional development in an era of nick.com, the authors propose that teachers' new literacy learning is as close as their own screens. Teachers, too, live literate lives online in this new age of composition, with impulses to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Social Networks, Internet, Middle School Teachers
Conley, David T. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2014
This policy report provides an overview of the Common Core State Standards, how they were developed, the sources that were referenced in their development, the need for educational standards generally, what they entail, and what it will mean for educators to implement them. The report draws from research and reference material to outline the…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational Policy, Program Descriptions, Program Development
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Allbright, Taylor N.; Marsh, Julie A.; Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Kennedy, Kate E. – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Serving a working-class suburb of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Hawthorne School District (HSD) is a small district with 11 schools: seven elementary schools, three middle schools, and one dependent charter high school. HSD's students are predominantly from low-income families (87%). Most students (71%) are Latino/a and about fifth (21%)…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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Shymansky, James A.; Wang, Tzu-Ling; Annetta, Leonard A.; Yore, Larry D.; Everett, Susan A. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
This paper is a report of a study that examines the relationship between teacher participation in a multi-year, K-6 professional development effort and the "high stakes" science test scores of different student groups in 33 rural mid-west school districts in the USA. The professional development program involved 1,269 elementary school…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Primary Education, Language Arts, Teacher Participation
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Kramer-Vida, Louisa; Levitt, Roberta; Kelly, Susan P. – Language Arts, 2012
Standards can aid educators as they work to produce strong student writers who can create meaningful and skillfully crafted authentic pieces of writing. This once-a-month, yearlong professional development program, conducted during the school day, shifted a district's kindergarten writing program to a writing workshop model that enabled the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Writing Processes
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Kimbrell, Sinead – Schools: Studies in Education, 2011
The associate director of education at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago recounts her learning and teaching through managing the Movement as Partnership program. Included are detailed descriptions of encounters with teachers and students as they create choreography reflective of their inquiry into integrating dance and literacy arts curriculum in the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Movement Education, Partnerships in Education, Dance
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Colwell, Jamie; Hutchison, Amy; Reinking, David – Language Arts, 2012
This article describes a project that studied 15 preservice teachers' perceptions of and reactions to responding to children's and young adult literature using a Ning blog. These perceptions and reactions provided insight into various practical aspects of using a social networking blog to facilitate literature response in a teacher education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Adolescent Literature, Preservice Teachers, Web Sites
Deal, Tami Benham; Jenkins, Jayne M.; Deal, Laurence O.; Byra, Adelle – American Journal of Health Education, 2010
Background: Elementary classroom teachers must overcome a number of instructional barriers, including time constraints and professional preparation, if they are to deliver effective health education and enhance health literacy among youth. Purpose: This study examined the direct impact of a long-term professional development program on integrating…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Program Effectiveness, Literacy, Professional Development
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Perkins, J. Helen; Cooter, Kathleen – Reading Horizons, 2013
In order to systemically improve student achievement in elementary literacy, a large urban school district partnered with a local university to develop a model for high-quality professional development that hopefully would result in long-term changes in teachers' literacy instructional/practices. Schools were selected based on their Adequate…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Literacy, Literacy Education, Professional Development
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Masters, Jessica; de Kramer, Raquel Magidin; O'Dwyer, Laura M.; Dash, Sheralyn; Russell, Michael – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
Online professional development (OPD) has great potential to improve teacher quality by improving teachers' knowledge and instructional practices, with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement. There is a dearth of scientific research, however, on the effects of OPD. This article presents the results of a randomized control trial…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teacher Effectiveness, Language Arts, Grade 4
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