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Ciampa, Katia; Jagielo-Manion, Rosemarie; Gormley, Audrey; Quinn, Gwen; Fanelle, Suzanne – Elementary School Journal, 2023
A qualitative self-study was employed to describe the experiences of three literacy coaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to understand how these three literacy coaches coped with challenges inherent in their transition to remote or hybrid teaching as well as used such understanding to inform literacy instructional…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Coaching (Performance), Teacher Role
Hopkins, Megan; Spillane, James P.; Jakopovic, Paula; Heaton, Ruth M. – Elementary School Journal, 2013
Designing infrastructures to support instruction remains a challenge in educational reform. This article reports on a study of one school system's efforts to redesign its infrastructure for mathematics instruction by promoting teacher leadership. Using social network and interview data from 12 elementary schools, we explore how the district's…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Educational Change, Teacher Leadership
Stigler, James W.; Thompson, Belinda J. – Elementary School Journal, 2009
Many have proposed the creation of a practitioner knowledge base as a foundation for the continuous improvement of teaching. In this article, we discuss the promise, and the challenges, involved in the creation and use of such a knowledge base. We begin by reflecting on the difficulties of changing teaching, a cultural and contextual activity. We…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Constructivism (Learning)
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Frand, Jason L. – Elementary School Journal, 1977
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Education
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Pedersen, K. George; Fleming, Thomas – Elementary School Journal, 1977
Discusses implications of critical questions relating to change in elementary education with emphasis on: curriculum development, organization, teacher behavior, and community expectations for public schools. (BF/JH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Nontraditional Education
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Little, Judith Warren – Elementary School Journal, 1995
Employs the image of "contested ground" to characterize tensions surrounding the evolution of teacher leadership in order to illuminate the ways in which traditions of subject specialism shape assumptions about the exercise of leadership among secondary teachers. Challenges the stereotypes of the "subject-centered" teacher and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Administration, Educational Change
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Heller, Marjorie F.; Firestone, William A. – Elementary School Journal, 1995
Identifies a set of change leadership functions including sustaining a vision for change, encouraging staff, modifying standard operating procedures, and monitoring progress. Suggests that these functions do contribute to change, but are also performed redundantly by persons in a variety of overlapping roles, including central office personnel,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Administration, Educational Change
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Mitman, Alexis L.; Lambert, Vicki – Elementary School Journal, 1993
Examined the instructional reform process in 17 middle schools. Reforms included heterogeneous grouping, cooperative learning, active learning, and interdisciplinary instruction. All reforms relied on teachers' willingness to change daily instructional content or strategies. Heterogenous grouping and interdisciplinary instruction posed the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development
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Smyth, John – Elementary School Journal, 2000
Argues that contemporary society is increasingly experiencing a loss of social capital. Maintains that this loss takes expression in the increasing tendency, as reflected in school reforms and restructuring, of regarding teachers' work in technical terms. Advocates regarding teaching as a social practice in which there is greater emphasis on…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Democracy, Educational Change, Educational Objectives