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Jennifer Lin Russell; Anthony S. Bryk; Donald J. Peurach; Jennifer Zoltners Sherer; Megan Duff; David Sherer; Chris Matthis – Peabody Journal of Education, 2025
Improvement networks are a novel organizational form designed to support collaborative, interorganizational learning and improvement aimed at solving complex, interdependent problems spanning classrooms, schools, systems, and their broader contexts. These networks aim to develop and augment local capabilities for innovation and improvement by…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Improvement Programs, Networks, Social Organizations
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Tansey, Timothy; Bezyak, Jill; Kang, Hyun-Ju; Yan, Min-Chi; Chan, Fong – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Background: The hiring of persons with disabilities continues to lag relative to the employment outcomes of persons without disabilities. Objective: The goal of this descriptive study was to examine human resources (HR) professionals' perceived needs and development considerations related to the use of a community of practice (CoP) to improve the…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Professional Personnel, Employment Practices, Communities of Practice
Lichtwark, Irene; Drysdale, Jen – Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2020
Good practice notes offer practical advice and examples of good practice to guide operations in regard to specific, higher education issues. The good practice notes are intended to support and promote the quality assurance approaches of providers. This Good Practice Note is intended to support higher education providers to better understand,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment
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Koonce, Glenn L.; Kreassig, Kurt; Hanes, John – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Universities are seeking ways to measure seemingly subjective experiences of faith, "objectively." This study focuses on the measurement of student perceptions of attributes of their Christian leadership development in a university in the mid-eastern part of the United States. Pre-program and post-program survey responses were collected…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Administrator Education, Principals, Christianity
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Fan, Chung-Hau; Gallup, Jennifer L.; Wu, I-Chen; Ford, Jeremy W. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
With the increasing visibility of state school psychology consultants (SSPCs) across the nation, there is a pressing need to understand their roles and functions relative to serving their stakeholders. In addition, it is unclear whether current SSPC job responsibilities are aligned with the National Association of School Psychologists' (NASP)…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Consultants, State Officials, Agency Role
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Dickinson, Amber R. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
When approached about working with colleagues to develop a new course revolving around the inner-workings of a political campaign, one thing was obvious to me: We had to give the course the unique element of making it as closely mimic real-world campaign activities as possible. If we were going to attempt to actually prepare students for work on a…
Descriptors: Political Campaigns, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Program Development
Merrill, Lisa; McGuinness, Sophie; Lafayette, Camille – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2018
The Student Success Network (SSN) consists of about 60 youth development organizations and schools in New York City that are dedicated to improving students' social and emotional learning (SEL) and academic and career success. For organizations to systematically practice continuous improvement, SSN thought perhaps they needed a champion who could…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Change Agents, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Nyland, Rob; Croft, Benjamin; Jung, Eulho – Online Learning, 2021
Learning analytics is a recent innovation that holds promise for improving retention in fully online programs. However, only a few case studies exist to show models for and outcomes of the implementation of learning analytics systems. This paper reports on a learning analytics implementation in a fully online, multidisciplinary program designed…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Learning Analytics, Intervention, Barriers
Allison Layland; Julie Corbett – National Comprehensive Center, 2021
Districts and schools are receiving once in a life-time funding through the American Recovery Plan (ARP) to address the learning needs of students over the next few years, especially those who have been most impacted by a year of remote or hybrid learning. State education agencies (SEAs) including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, outlying…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Acceleration (Education), Distance Education, Blended Learning
Michael Chapman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Public schools follow school improvement guidelines to improve outcomes for students. This study utilized a quantitative method with a correlational design to discern any relationship between the NCStar School Improvement Program Indicators and student proficiency scores. The population for the study was 636 public high schools implementing the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Program Evaluation, Public Schools
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Bennett, Troy – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2016
Academic researchers dedicated to contributing to quality improvement in professional practice need to find more effective ways to bridge the gap between research and practice. Bridging the gap requires understanding what encourages the use of research findings by practitioners and what discourages it, as well as understanding how practitioners…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Program Improvement, After School Programs, Recreational Activities
MDRC, 2016
Many social policy and education programs start from the assumption that people act in their best interest. But behavioral science shows that people often weigh intuition over reason, make inconsistent choices, and put off big decisions. The individuals and families who need services and the staff who provide them are no exception. From city…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Change Strategies, Program Improvement
Huang, Melrose; Hoang, Hai; Yesilyurt, Suleyman; Thorn, Chris – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2016
The Community College Pathways initiative is composed of two pathways, Statway® and Quantway® that provide post-secondary students with accelerated means to complete developmental mathematics sequences and attain college-level mathematics credit. Since its inception in 2011, the Pathways initiative has made tremendous strides toward reclaiming…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Research Reports, Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics
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Kaplan, Carolyn Shemwell; Brownstein, Erica M.; Graham-Day, Kristall J. – SAGE Open, 2017
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards requires educator preparation programs (EPPs) to ensure instruments used to assess their candidates are both valid and reliable. Due to size and limited financial resources, this task may be challenging for some EPPs. In an effort to address CAEP's expectations, 26 EPPs in…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards, Teacher Education Programs
Kinlow, Cheryl L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The focus of the descriptive study utilizing a sequential explanatory design was to develop a comprehensive examination of ongoing development and improvement of an Administrative Professional Program at "Midwest College," a vocational-technical college in the Midwest. A Career Pathway (CP) is a logical, expressed grouping of dynamic…
Descriptors: Colleges, Technical Education, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship
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