NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards1
Showing 1,051 to 1,065 of 4,469 results Save | Export
Orlando, Nik – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This action research study examined the effectiveness of the process implemented by Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) Schools Charter Management Organization to develop their school leader evaluation system in collaboration with current PUC school leaders. The development of the leadership evaluation system included the collective voices of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Partnerships in Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McHenry-Sorber, Erin; Provinzano, Kathleen – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2017
Hydraulic fracturing has altered the face of rural communities across the United States, creating new demands for educational leaders. This in-depth qualitative study explores how rural educational leaders in a heavily drilled community experience and respond to these challenges with a focus on increased local student transiency, homelessness, and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Community Development, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sundberg, Kristina; Josephson, Anna; Reeves, Scott; Nordquist, Jonas – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
A key role for educational leaders within undergraduate medical education is to continually improve the quality of education; global quality health care is the goal. This paper reports the findings from a study employing a power model to highlight how educational leaders influence the development of undergraduate medical curricula and the…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Undergraduate Study
Henry, Wesley L. C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Rural America is rapidly becoming more diverse, yet rural communities remain different from their urban and suburban counterparts. Despite several decades of economic hardship in rural areas, rural schools are under researched by scholars and under prioritized by policymakers. Therefore, this study was designed to better understand how school and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Public Agencies, School Districts, Regional Cooperation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kladifko, Robert E. – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2013
School leaders must have knowledge and understanding of the various external and internal entities in their school community. Partnerships, with a focus on communication and interaction with diverse community leaders and professionals, are essential for school success. In this article, the author discusses successful practical experiences and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Community Involvement, Principals
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Laura B. Holyoke, Editor; Audrey Ayers, Editor; Trenton Ferro, Editor; Adam L. McClain, Editor; Kyle Znamenak, Editor – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This year's conference theme, "Creating New Trajectories for Adult Education," provided opportunities for presenters to peruse many avenues available for investigating and engaging the field and practice of adult learning. The following proceedings contain valuable information and tools to equip education professionals further as they…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Womens Education, Educational History, Sense of Belonging
Waite, Chelsea – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2021
Among the lessons to take away from COVID-19 in the K-12 sector, one is this: we can never again say that schools haven't changed in a hundred years. After a year in which all schools upended the status quo to support students' learning and wellbeing during a pandemic, the most vocal critics of outdated school systems must acknowledge that even…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Innovation
Trump, Kenneth S. – Educational Leadership, 2015
Kenneth Trump, a school safety expert who consults with districts on how to respond to school safety crises, explains how the new prevalence of threats of violence being delivered over digital and social media creates for administrators a "communication crisis" that unfolds alongside the real or perceived crisis of school safety being…
Descriptors: School Safety, Risk Assessment, Emergency Programs, Information Security
Palmer, Erik – Educational Leadership, 2015
"I was planning on doing a lot of work today during your presentation, but I couldn't get anything done. I just had to pay attention!" The author received this unexpected feedback from a teacher at the end of a presentation he gave, and although he considered it a compliment, it made him reflect on the dire state of presentations in…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Audience Analysis, Communication Skills, Communication Strategies
Hess, Frederick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The author lays out guidelines and suggestions for how teachers can actually become policy leaders, taken from his book, "The Cage-Busting Teacher" (Harvard Education Press, 2015). Teachers serious about leadership can get the ear of policy makers by leveraging their positional and moral authority--though they may need to be persistent…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Employment, Teacher Participation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Freire, Carla; Fernandes, António – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
The purpose of this study is to analyse how the access to structures of empowerment by teachers in primary and secondary education impacts on their trust of the headmaster of the school management board. Using the theoretical framework of empowerment and trust in the context of companies, one adapted the constructs of these scales to the reality…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Principals, Trust (Psychology)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kwauk, Christina Ting – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 12 months of field research, this paper contributes to the growing body of literature on sport for development (SFD) by giving voice to alternative constructions of the educative potential of SFD. It does this by exploring the social attitudes of youth, educators, community leaders and government…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Sport Psychology, Physical Education, Ethnography
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Fisher, Scott R. – Environmental Education Research, 2016
This article draws from a study investigating the life trajectories of 17 youth climate activists from 14 countries through semi-structured, life memory interviews using Internet-based methods. The interpretations of the interviews focus on the ways in which participants constructed the meanings and functions of experiences and how they…
Descriptors: Activism, Youth Opportunities, Youth Leaders, Climate
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dragoo, Amie; Barrows, Richard – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
The number of competency-based education (CBE) degree programs has increased rapidly over the past five years, yet there is little research on CBE program development. This study utilized conceptual models of higher education change and a qualitative methodology to analyze the strategies and challenges in implementing CBE business degree programs…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  ...  |  298