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Thompson, Jessica; Richards, Jennifer; Shim, Soo-Yean; Lohwasser, Karin; Von Esch, Kerry Soo; Chew, Christine; Sjoberg, Bethany; Morris, Ann – AERA Open, 2019
One of the major challenges in educational reform is supporting teachers and the profession in the continual improvement of instruction. Research-practice partnerships and particularly networked improvement communities are well-suited for such knowledge-building work. This article examines how a networked improvement community with eight…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communities of Practice, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Borda, Emily; Warren, Shannon; Coskie, Tracy L.; Larson, Bruce E.; Hanley, Dan; Cohen, Jessica – School-University Partnerships, 2018
The Whole School Success Partnership (TWSSP) worked to develop practices and cultures that emphasized student success in five middle and high schools. Because this project took place in secondary schools where teachers have disciplinary specializations, the whole school approach came with unique opportunities and challenges. Here we describe how…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Change, Secondary Schools, Partnerships in Education
Impact of Sustained Professional Development in STEM on Outcome Measures in a Diverse Urban District
Capraro, Robert M.; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Scheurich, James Joseph; Jones, Meredith; Morgan, Jim; Huggins, Kristin Shawn; Corlu, M. Sencer; Younes, Rayya; Han, Sunyoung – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Sustained professional development can support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) reform. The authors describe a 3-year study of sustained professional development for 3 diverse urban schools across the salient factors of fidelity of implementation of project-based learning, development of professional learning communities,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, STEM Education, Urban Schools, School Districts
Dallas, Fern – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2006
This study describes the influences that one professional learning community had on teacher resilience, teacher retention, and school reform initiatives. Teachers at a low performing, urban middle school in the Southeastern United States implemented professional learning communities as a reform initiative to assist with staff development. This…
Descriptors: Observation, Language Arts, Teacher Persistence, Educational Change
Robinson, Jennifer B. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In the study reported here, I explored the notion of teacher leadership as described by individuals participating in a district-wide school reform initiative, the Accelerating Student Achievement Project. Through the district-wide project, teacher leaders were identified at each of the middle and high schools to further develop the schools'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Leadership, Leadership, Teaching Methods
Tonso, Karen L.; Jung, Maura Lobos; Colombo, Marie – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2006
Considered a successful university-operated, urban middle school serving an overwhelmingly African American student body, "Charter" Middle School was dechartered suddenly, then merged a year later with students from a neighborhood school to become "Choice" Middle School, a school of choice in the urban district. Using a situated learning framework…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, School Restructuring, Neighborhood Schools, Middle Schools