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Stevenson, Olivia – Grantee Submission, 2021
EMPOWER was an Investing in Innovation (i3) development grant awarded to Cabarrus County Schools by the Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. EMPOWER provided social-emotional, academic, and non-cognitive supports in magnet school settings to students from low-income families. Family engagement and teacher…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Low Income Students, Literacy, Mathematics Achievement
Scanlan, Martin, Ed.; Hunter, Cristina, Ed.; Howard, Elizabeth R., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
"Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education" provides a much-needed blueprint for how school leaders can leverage the power of collaborative learning to create more culturally and linguistically responsive schools. The book describes an innovative network of twenty preK-8 schools located across the United States striving to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Second Language Learning, Networks, Preschool Education
Stojakovic, Zoran; Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2014
These maps provide an overview of existing dual language programs in the district for the 2011-2012 school year and the distribution of English language learners.
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Bilingual Education, High Schools, Middle Schools
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Martin, Peter Clyde – Current Issues in Education, 2015
The article discusses how instead of being parts of a concerted educational reform effort, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the development of charter schools are in fact contradictory initiatives. Basing itself on a theoretical framework that brings together issues inherent to outcome-based school reform and arguments supporting and criticizing…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Charter Schools
Brunner, Josie; Stojakovic, Zoran – Online Submission, 2013
This report suggests potential program sites for the middle school dual language program based on student needs, campus capacity, and parental and staff interest.
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners
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Wesely, Pamela M.; Baig, Fatima – Bilingual Research Journal, 2012
This qualitative study explores how parents decide to enroll their children in one-way immersion programs and how the decision is made to continue in those programs at the middle/junior high school level. A total of 131 parents responded to a survey with open-ended questions about these two decisions. Analyzed thematically and within a conceptual…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Opportunities, Self Efficacy, Immersion Programs
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Lyster, Roy; Ballinger, Susan – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article serves as the introduction to this special issue of "Language Teaching Research" on content-based language teaching (CBLT). The article first provides an illustrative overview of the myriad contexts in which CBLT has been implemented and then homes in on the five studies comprising the special issue, each conducted in a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Wang, Kathleen – Learning Languages, 2009
This article describes the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School (PVCICS), a regional public charter school in western Massachusetts, which opened in 2007 and the only Chinese immersion school in New England. The school draws students from over twenty-five towns and cities in a predominantly rural area of Massachusetts that includes the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Activities, Immersion Programs, Rural Areas
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Gullickson, Janice – Learning Languages, 2009
Six years ago Project Starship MIR, the Russian language "shuttle," launched at Turnagain Elementary, one of the Anchorage School District's 65 elementary schools. The MIR "peace" mission originated with encouragement from the local business community to prepare students for Alaska's future economic, social and political ties…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Business, Second Languages, Foreign Countries