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Baum, Sandy; Harris, Douglas N.; Kelly, Andrew; Mitchell, Ted – Urban Institute, 2017
The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to chart the direction of the country's colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos highlighting the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Federal Government, Government Role
Brewer, Dominic J.; Shirley, Maurice – Urban Institute, 2017
The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Federal Programs, Educational Change
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Díaz, Josefina; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Gutiérrez-Cardenas, Sandra-Milena; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Morfín, María; Álvarez, Miguel; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The policy of reorganising schools in pedagogical cycles has been restored little by little in the state schools of the city of Bogota. This reform began in the year 2008 in Codema College, which faced a number of challenges, personal as much as institutional. The reform depended upon the participation and engagement of the educational community…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Tucker, Catlin R.; Wycoff, Tiffany; Green, Jason T. – Corwin, 2017
Blended learning has the power to reinvent education, but transitioning to a blended model is challenging. Blended learning requires a fundamentally new approach to learning as well as a new skillset for both teachers and school leaders. Loaded with research, examples, and resources, "Blended Learning in Action" demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
Lee, Sarah; Gean, Katherine – James Irvine Foundation, 2017
To stay relevant to changing communities, many arts organizations have been developing engagement programs--that is, programming designed to reach more and different people and involve them more actively in how art is made and experienced. While engagement efforts are often episodic or separate from an art organization's core programming, in late…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Change, Diversity
James Irvine Foundation, 2017
While engagement programs are often episodic or separate from an art organization's core programming, in late 2013 a group of 10 arts nonprofits across California set out to make engagement central to their work. They aimed to transform their programmatic, organizational, and business models in ways that would improve and sustain their reach and…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Change, Diversity
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Beddoes, Zack; Prusak, Keven; Beighle, Aaron; Pennington, Todd – Quest, 2021
Systems change literacy includes the willingness and ability to engage in collective action within and among system components, guided by long-term plans and measured by short-term, achievable "small wins." While potentially perceived as too "high level" or abstract, it can be helpful to consider that collective action occurs…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Systems Approach
Hegewisch, Ariane; Mefferd, Eve – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
Careers in the construction trades can provide high earnings and good benefits, often through a learn-while-you-earn apprenticeship. In 2020, more than 300,000 women worked in the trades--the largest number ever. Yet while their numbers are growing, women still make up fewer than one in twenty of workers in construction occupations. This report…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Females, Experience, Sexual Identity
Carolyn Wallace – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined how intentional change decisions impacted the organizational culture of a newly constructed and reconfigured elementary school in Central Massachusetts. District administration enacted seven intentional change decisions during the project to influence the culture of the new school. Semi-structured interviews were held with nine…
Descriptors: School Construction, Structural Elements (Construction), Change Strategies, Elementary Schools
Brian Thomas Uplinger – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), horizontal transitions can be anxiety-ridden and challenging, leading to undesirable behaviors (Chavez, 2018; Nuske et al., 2018). Few research studies focus on the transition needs of children diagnosed with ASD (Kuo et al., 2018; Nuske et al., 2019; Shattuck et al., 2018). This…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Students with Disabilities
Fernflores, Rachel – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2016
Success in social justice activism often hinges on judging when to employ the most effective strategy for action. Strategies for action include militancy, peaceful protest, and sometimes, engaging in a longer term program of "marginal gains." The militant feminism of many 19th century suffragettes, such as Emmeline Pankhurst, is a good…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Activism, Feminism, Social Action
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Hansen, Marie – Gender and Education, 2016
Despite the fact that feminism has recognised psychoanalysis to be a theory with direct application to the understanding of sexism for over 50 years, the application of psychoanalytic thinking to feminist activism has yet to be significantly realised. Using the work of Julia Kristeva, sexism is described as a symptom of an intolerable situation…
Descriptors: Feminism, Psychiatry, Social Change, Activism
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Annarino, Pauline – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2016
For more than a century, professionals, parents, deaf individuals, and students--who are involved in education have discussed the question: "How should deaf education change?" Today this question continues to dazzle and frustrate. All of us want deaf and hard of hearing students to have higher achievement across academic areas and to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Educational Methods, Educational Change
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Andrews, David M.; Bornais, Judy A. K.; Cramer, Ken M. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
We explore the advent and initiatives of teaching leadership chairs--modeled after the Canada Research Chair framework--to instill individuals or small groups of teaching leaders at various centres across the country to stimulate educational change. In its past, present, and future, we explore the grassroots of teaching leadership chairs and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Role
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Rivas, Michele; Hill, Nicole R. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2018
Transcendental phenomenology was used in this study to examine the lived experiences of counseling interns (N = 10) receiving multicultural training to assist clients with disabilities. Five essential themes were identified. Drawing on their findings, the authors recommend programmatic and curricular changes, including the infusion of personal…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Trainees, Disabilities, Phenomenology
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