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Cummings, Marlon I.; Olson, Jennifer D. – Improving Schools, 2020
In today's era of increased accountability and standards-based reforms within the United States educational system, Community Partner Organizations (CPOs) can offer essential support to teachers, schools, and districts. CPOs have the potential to have a positive impact in urban schools in particular, where high-stakes testing and accountability…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Urban Schools, High Stakes Tests, Accountability
Buchanan, Karen; Buchanan, Thomas – Improving Schools, 2017
While the importance of a professional teacher's collaboration with diverse families is clearly highlighted in the US Department of Education's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and in US teaching standards, research consistently reports that teachers feel unprepared to do this aspect of their work. The failure of the teaching profession to grow…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Family School Relationship, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Tran, Yune – Improving Schools, 2014
One instrumental step in promoting overall children's academic success across the trajectory of early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary grades is purposefully establishing positive linkages for families and schools through a shared partnership. By facilitating an ongoing collaborative approach to sustain family engagement practices…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Family School Relationship, Success, Academic Achievement
Doyle, Sean – Improving Schools, 2009
This article explores the potential of a residential Continuing Professional Development (CPD) model to promote sustained constructive dialogue between science educators, both on knowledge and pedagogy, and impact on teaching practice in a wide geographical area. It is based on a science education initiative shared by the local authorities in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
Thomson, Pat; McGregor, Jane; Sanders, Ethel; Alexiadou, Nafsika – Improving Schools, 2009
Creative Partnerships aims to change the ways in which children learn and teachers teach, and to support whole school change. Our research examines how schools take up the "cultural offer" made by Creative Partnerships. In this article, drawing on data from snapshot visits to 40 English schools, we suggest that it has made a difference…
Descriptors: School Culture, Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Partnerships in Education
Lewis, Marian – Improving Schools, 2008
Many of our schools are situated in communities characterized by high levels of disadvantage, presenting a range of challenges. One possible response is to acknowledge this disadvantage and to try to address some of the problems it raises for students. Another is for the school to be proactive, recognizing the challenges faced by the community and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Instructional Leadership