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Cohen, Jefna M. – Learning Professional, 2023
How does one overcome the challenges to finding time for meaningful professional learning? The authors asked seven experts in the field, and these practitioners offer powerful strategies for making better use of educator time. An example from Illinois centers student data in school systems as an essential component of a school's overall commitment…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Data Use
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Changhee Lee; Eric M. Camburn; James Sebastian – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2025
This study examines what forms of data school leaders use, how they matter for students' learning, and which school contexts matter for such leadership practices to succeed. Utilizing hierarchical linear modeling, we analyzed survey responses from 1,381 school leaders and administrative data from 269 Florida schools. We find that although school…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Unal, Aslihan; Unal, Zafer – Journal of Research in Education, 2021
While teacher education programs are required to place preservice teachers in diverse schools/classrooms, the conceptualization and measurement of diversity remains a challenge. One of the primary methods for developing teachers so that they can capably work with diverse student populations is to provide field experiences that place teacher…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Student Placement, Student Teachers, Data Use
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Brower, Rebecca L.; Mokher, Christine G.; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Cox, Bradley E.; Hu, Shouping – AERA Open, 2020
This multiple case study examines the extent and ways in which leaders and administrators in Florida College System (FCS) institutions engage in distributed leadership through data sharing with frontline staff. Based on focus groups and individual interviews with administrators, faculty, and staff (659 participants) from 21 state colleges, we…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Participative Decision Making, Data Use
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Mokher, Christine G.; Spencer, Hayley; Park, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
We explore institutional change and organizational learning in higher education in the context of a large-scale reform of developmental education in Florida. We use statewide survey data to examine administrators' perceptions of the use and effectiveness of accountability metrics, methods to identify solutions to improve student outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Higher Education, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Mokher, Christine G.; Spencer, Hayley; Park, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
We explore institutional change and organizational learning in higher education in the context of a large-scale reform of developmental education in Florida. We use statewide survey data to examine administrators' perceptions of the use and effectiveness of accountability metrics, methods to identify solutions to improve student outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Higher Education, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes
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Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca A. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2020
In this study on K-12 schools in the U.S. Florida Heartland, I take a QuantCrit approach to uncover how processes of data transformation, which I call 'racial re-formation', shape the utilization and reporting of racial and ethnic representations of students. To understand actual data use at schools, I apply QuantCrit's principles on how numbers…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Demography, Race, Ethnicity
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Leytham, Patrick A.; Nguyen, Nghia; Rago, David – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
The purpose of this article is to assist general and special educators in identifying and implementing effective academic programming in the general education environment for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Throughout this article, the authors attempt to demonstrate how students with ASD can successfully receive instruction in a…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Children, Autism
Durán, Lillian K.; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Kohlmeier, Theresa L.; Brunner, Stephanie K.; Palma, Jose; Callard, Chase H. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The population of Spanish-speaking preschoolers in the United States continues to increase and there is a significant need to develop psychometrically sound early language and literacy screening measures to accurately capture children's ability in Spanish. In this paper, we describe the innovative design and calibration process of the new…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Screening Tests, Oral Language