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Bird, Jennifer Lynne – Childhood Education, 2007
As a high school English teacher in Ohio and later as a college professor of future teachers in Florida, the author, who loved choreographing dance routines, viewed teaching as consisting of both artistic and technical elements. Like dance which is a combination of artistic and technical skills, teaching also requires the combination of both…
Descriptors: Dance, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Learning Activities
Using Technology to Engage Students and Build Learning Communities to Inform Instructional Decisions
Todd, Carol; Anyikwa, Victoria; Ryan, Nancy; Tobin, Patricia; Wood, Nancy – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
Saint Leo University is a liberal arts university located in southwest Florida. University campus is a residential campus that teaches the traditional aged student. The campus population is 1,800 students who are mostly Florida residents, with international students representing 18 different countries. Twenty-one centers located in seven states…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Liberal Arts, Universities, Technology Integration
Nikita M. McCaskill – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This applied dissertation study was designed to assess a high-performing high school's dropout prevention program that increased graduation rates and decreased dropout rates among high school students. The high-performing high school was chosen because the target site achieved a 90% or higher graduation rate over 5 school years. Four of 19 high…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Programs
Montgomery, Corey Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The interpretive nature of this dissertation study was grounded in the field of qualitative research. The purpose of the study was to qualitatively define successful inclusion instruction and/or programming. The units of analysis were three schools at each academic level within the Broward County School District which made Adequate Yearly Progress…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Structured Interviews
Shuzhan Li – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Demographic, economic, and immigration patterns have shifted in rural areas in the United States in recent years. This shift has brought to the increased number of emergent bilingual students (referred to as English language learners [ELLs] in this dissertation) in rural schools. With unique challenges, strengths, and realities in rural schools…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, English Language Learners, Ethics, Psychological Patterns
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2010
In fall 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to test new approaches to measuring effective teaching. The goal of the MET project is to improve the quality of information about teaching effectiveness available to education professionals within states and districts--information that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Parise, Leigh M.; Finkelstein, Carla; Alterman, Emma – MDRC, 2015
Through the Innovative Professional Development (iPD) Challenge, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in helping school districts and networks redesign their professional development systems to serve educators better and improve student performance. MDRC's evaluation of the iPD Challenge involves case studies and multiple rounds of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Case Studies, Program Evaluation, Interviews
West, Elizabeth A.; Jones, Phyllis; Chambers, Dianne; Whitehurst, Teresa – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2012
The purpose of this multi-perspective collaborative research activity was to analyze moments of teacher learning as perceived by a group of teachers who educate students with the label of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The researchers in this project acknowledge the value of hearing teachers' perspectives on what works for them in their…
Descriptors: Autism, Foreign Countries, Residential Schools, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Levin, Stephanie; Duffy, Mark; Dever, Kelly – Research for Action, 2012
Math experts developed Formative Assessment Lessons that teachers can incorporate throughout the year's curriculum. Both tools target the "instructional core." A study by Research for Action (RFA) examining the first year of piloting the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and Math Design Collaborative (MDC) tools (2010-11) found…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Comparative Analysis, Leadership, Educational Change
Warner, Anna J.; Myers, Brian E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
In spite of national initiatives such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, American students continue to be struggling readers. Research on content area reading strategies (CARS) has shown that such strategies increase students' ability to read and comprehend text. The purpose of this research was to assess agricultural educators'…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Content Area Reading, Reading Strategies, Questionnaires
Pringle, Rose M.; Carrier Martin, Sarah – Research in Science Education, 2005
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education in the United States issued a report called "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform." This report and other policy initiatives such as the No Child Left Behind Legislation recommended that the individual states institute assessments to hold schools accountable.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Testing Programs, Teacher Attitudes
Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
Morris, Don – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2008
The importance of the beliefs and attitudes of teachers and building-level administrators in achieving school reform has come to be widely acknowledged. As University of Wisconsin professor Kent Peterson put it: "You can implement a good-quality improvement plan and knowledgeable, data-driven decision making, but if the [staff] doesn't…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Decision Making, Educational Change
Taylor, Rosemarye T.; Watson, Rebecca – Principal Leadership, 2013
Increasing the rigor of learning tasks to align with the expectations in the Common Core State Standards presents challenges for many educators, particularly for middle and high school teachers of nonproficient readers. In this article, the authors describe a number of these challenges and identify four steps that together, create a systematic…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Difficulty Level, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
Girard, Beverly Lawler – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study determined attitudes of kindergarten through fifth grade teachers about school nutrition environments, their perceived influence on school nutrition environments, and self-reported classroom behaviors. Specific objectives were to: (a) identify perceived factors that influence the school nutrition environment, according to teachers…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Nutrition, Teacher Surveys, Food