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Improving Literacy and Content Learning across the Curriculum? How Teachers Relate Literacy Teaching to School Subjects in Cross-Curricular Professional Development
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Kirsten, Nils – Education Inquiry, 2019
This study examined how teachers relate literacy teaching to their ordinary subject teaching in professional development settings. The study is conducted within the large Swedish professional development program the Literacy Boost (in Swedish "Läslyftet"), which can be viewed as an example of an international focus on reading ability…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Aesthetic Encounters and Learning in the Museum
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Bell, David Raymond – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
This article discusses how museum settings can provide opportunities for sensory and aesthetic encounters and learning. It draws on research into museum education programmes that included examinations of curatorial construction and display, observations of teaching and open-ended interviews with museum educators. The examples selected here focus…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Aesthetic Education, Museums, Program Descriptions
A Blended Summer School Experience for English Learners
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Koeppen, Olga Maritza – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study analyzes Achieve3000, Lexia Core 5, and Imagine Learning software programs designed to increase student literacy levels in a six-week summer school program. The Brainology program was also used with 4th to 6th grade students to determine if there was an increase in growth mindset. Three elementary schools with the highest percentages of…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
The Achievement Progress of English Learner Students in Arizona. REL 2015-098
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Haas, Eric; Tran, Loan; Huang, Min; Yu, Airong – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2015
The purpose of this study was to understand the learning trajectories of the growing numbers of English learner students in Arizona, especially those who struggle to pass state English language arts and math content tests. This study followed three cohorts of English learner students in Arizona (kindergarten, grade 3, and grade 6) over six school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
In the Works: A Compendium of Projects from across the Country
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Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2009
The Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) has created this Compendium to capture a snapshot of the variety of projects currently taking place across the country. The information about each project has been supplied by the lead organization. The projects have been grouped under "themes" rather than by location, timelines or start dates. It…
Descriptors: Literacy, Professional Development, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
The Early Literacy Support Programme (ELS) and the Blend and Clash of National Educational Policy Ideologies in England
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Soler, Janet; Paige-Smith, Alice – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2005
In this article we consider the development of key policy issues in England, related to the area of literacy learning and children who are considered to have difficulties in literacy in their early years. We trace the tensions which have arisen since the 1980s between different policies and practices in these areas. These tensions include…
Descriptors: Ideology, Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Educational Policy