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Heather Anne Piperato – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Since 2001, U.S. states have mandated that principals in unsuccessful schools author a school improvement plan (SIP) using the rational model of planning. Research on their efficacy is sparse and evidence suggests that principals satisfice on these SIPs, producing work that is "good enough" to meet concerns for external legitimacy over…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, Principals, Educational Improvement
Angela M. Frabasilio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adaptive reasoning is one of five components students use to develop mathematical expertise and become mathematically proficient. When students adapt their reasoning they are logically thinking about the mathematical relationships between concepts and adapting their thinking to solve problems. Three Act Math Tasks are popular math problems used in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Abstract Reasoning, Freehand Drawing, Cooperative Learning
Tendetnik, Pavel G. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study contributes to U.S. foreign assistance policy by demonstrating education's relationship to nation-state fragility. It surveys the efficacy of current U.S. foreign assistance policy and state-building efforts as related to education and provides empirical analysis of available data regarding the effects of school enrollment levels on…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Enrollment, Elementary Education, Secondary Education
Wallace, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative critical multi-case study examines the nature of resistance as it emerges within the work of two urban secondary teachers acting as teacher educators, each teaching a secondary teacher preparation course within their own respective school context. Both research sites are discursively and functionally similar in terms of their…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Educators
McCarthy, Yvonne Green – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative, practitioner research study, conducted by a school leader-as-researcher, was designed to gain insight into instructional leadership and teacher learning through the perceptions of high school teachers participating in a voluntary, school-based, self-organized, self-directed, cross-curricular teacher learning group within a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Qualitative Research, Volunteers, Teacher Leadership
Marsh, Rose M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Schools have gone through educational reforms having various focuses on curriculum changes, consolidation, open classrooms, mastery learning, decentralization, shared decisionmaking, legislative mandates and controls, high expectations, integrated thematic instruction, professional development, technology integration, and standards with…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Virtual Classrooms
Comstock, Sharon L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is a dual-site ethnographic case study of the lived information literacy experiences of students in their junior year of high school relative to their school library and librarians. What began as an investigation of an apparent gap in understanding between the views of teens and school librarians regarding "information…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Junior High School Students, Information Literacy, Student Experience