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Padilla, Jennifer Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have gained attention as an effective practice for supporting teachers and developing students since their inception in the early 1990s yet there is still work to be done in developing a blueprint for effective implementation in a pervasive culture of isolation and resistance, especially in secondary…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Secondary Schools, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology
From-Friesen, Bendta S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) Identify and describe principal and teacher perceptions of the effectiveness of Kotter's strategies used to facilitate change in instructional delivery to improve student success in Algebra 1; (b) identify and describe which strategies used by principals and teachers were perceived as most…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Elementary School Teachers, Administrator Attitudes
Polhemus, Constance E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to describe to what extent seven collaborative behaviors were demonstrated by general education teachers assigned students with disabilities, special education Resource Specialists, and the principals in selected California elementary schools that met their 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 English language arts annual…
Descriptors: General Education, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Vision