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Lord, Deborah Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A Master of Educational Leadership prepares a graduate to serve as a school principal. The United States faces a crisis due to the demand for qualified principals. This study examines the complex role of the principal and the resistance of qualified candidates to apply for a principalship. This study also serves as a program evaluation for the…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Instructional Leadership, College Graduates, Principals
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Kauffman, James M.; Anastasiou, Dimitris; Badar, Jeanmarie; Travers, Jason C.; Wiley, Andrew L. – Advances in Special Education, 2016
Change is not synonymous with improvement. Improvement of special education requires better instruction of individuals with disabilities. Although LRE and inclusion are important issues, they are not the primary legal or practical issues in improving special education. Federal law (IDEA) requires a continuum of alternative placements, not…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Student Placement, Students with Disabilities
Stevenson, Bradley – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2016
Data-based decision making refers to collecting, analyzing, and reporting data to drive school improvement. This can apply to any level of the school from individual students to the entire system. When applied to the field of secondary transition, it refers to using data to drive decisions to improve the in-school and post-school success of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Use, Decision Making, Educational Improvement
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Lassila, Erkki T.; Ahn, Ruth – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2022
This case study examines four Japanese pre-service teachers' (PST's) experience of learning Bob Moses' student-centered pedagogical framework (Moses & Cobb, 2001) in the context of teaching English as a foreign language, a subject arguably the most difficult for both Japanese students and teachers. The framework is most effective when used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods
Byon, Anna Hyunah; Elliott, Kayla C. – Education Trust, 2022
Universal approaches have not sufficiently improved higher education outcomes for Black, Latino, and Indigenous students, and students from low-income backgrounds because these broad interventions are not targeted toward specific populations. Student voices and interests must be centered in policy and practice, and higher education leaders and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Partnerships in Education, Technical Assistance, Higher Education
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Kitto, Simon C.; Grant, Rachel E.; Peller, Jennifer; Moulton, Carol-Anne; Gallinger, Steven – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
In 2007 the Cancer Care Ontario Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic (HPB) Community of Practice was formed during the wake of provincial regionalization of HPB services in Ontario, Canada. Despite being conceptualized within the literature as an educational intervention, communities of practice (CoP) are increasingly being adopted in healthcare as quality…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Conflict, Cancer, Surgery
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Skourdoumbis, Andrew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This paper explores two Australian school education policy documents and the inputs they describe to boost student achievement. The paper suggests that current reform efforts in schooling like others previously configure student achievement in input-output terms confining school education policy to predictable inputs that sideline broader…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Educational Improvement
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Alzahrani, Sultan – World Journal of Education, 2018
This modified narrative study is an exploration of the perceptions of two special educators who experienced the dramatic changes in the New Orleans public school system as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The participants in this study will consist of two special education professionals (See Table 1). From their perspectives, the reader shall gain a…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Public Schools, Pretests Posttests, Natural Disasters
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Manning, Rory J. – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2018
It is well documented that classroom observation reports are used by school leaders as just one piece of the clinical supervision process of teachers (Cohen and Goldhaber, 2016). While the frequency of classroom observations might vary between school districts, recent regulations on Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) have added more…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Observation, Qualitative Research, Computer Software
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Gu, Qing; Sammons, Pam; Chen, Junjun – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
This article investigates, from the perspective of senior and middle leaders, how secondary principals in England lead their schools to achieve sustainable performance despite policy shifts. Empirical data were drawn from structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses of a questionnaire survey from 309 effective and improved secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Principals, Middle Management, Educational Improvement, Secondary Schools
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Ben-Peretz, Miriam; Craig, Cheryl J. – Educational Studies, 2018
This curriculum inquiry explores scholarly influence by examining how Joseph J. Schwab's ideas travelled over time and how his research was disseminated. The study begins with Schwab's biography and a literature review, followed by descriptions of the research method and sources of evidence. Data analysis centre on (1) The influence of Schwab's…
Descriptors: Biographies, Scholarship, Curriculum, Educational Research
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Johnston, Jenny; George, Stephanie – Teacher Development, 2018
This paper reports on qualitative research from an Australian, K-6, faith-based school about teachers' experience of a job-embedded professional learning initiative (the "Whole-School Benchmarking of Writing," WSBoW) that was designed to improve teachers' capacity to apply data-driven decision-making to achieve improvements in student…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Religious Education
Richmond, Tom; Maher, Jo; Peate, Annie; Crook, Jeremy; Tregelles, Jan; Gale, Mark; Easton, Carole; Hutchings, Dexter; Kinross, Ben; Dromey, Joe; Nugent, Julie – Learning and Work Institute, 2018
An essay collection with leading experts sets out ways to improve the quality of apprenticeships and ensure fair access to training. Despite the United Kingdom's recent apprenticeship reforms, the number of apprenticeship starts is down 25%, leaving the government increasingly off target for its aim of three million starts by 2020. The essays also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2018
The recommendations in this brief create a framework for using data effectively to make instructional decisions. The availability of student-level data for educators has pushed forward the movement to strengthen the role of data to guide instruction and improve student learning. While improvements in technology and assessments, as well as recent…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Information Utilization, Data Collection, Data Analysis
DeGrow, Ben; Klingler, Ronald – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2018
This report represents the third in a series designed to measure the academic performance of Michigan elementary and middle schools, and the first of the series to use results from the M-STEP assessment. Similar report cards were published in 2013 (ED560064) and 2015 (ED568656), based on different but overlapping years of scores on the defunct…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Educational Quality, Public Schools
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