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ElFiki, Tracy Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Recent governmental education reform measures have emphasized school improvement by requiring schools and districts to improve school performance, including student achievement, through many avenues including professional development. Professional development is no longer concentrated solely on teachers; it now includes administrators the…
Descriptors: School Administration, Administrators, Management Development, Program Effectiveness
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Steele, Christopher; Goldberger, Susan; Restuccia, Dan – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2013
Continuing and professional education units are faced with the constant need to keep pace with dynamic labor markets when assessing program offerings and content. Real-time labor-market data derived from detailed analysis of online job postings offers a new tool for more easily aligning programs to local labor-market demand. The authors describe a…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Higher Education, Professional Continuing Education, Universities
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Summers, Amber; Confair, Amy R.; Flamm, Laura; Goheer, Attia; Graham, Karlene; Muindi, Mwende; Gittelsohn, Joel – American Journal of Health Education, 2013
Background: The Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls (HBHS) program aims to reduce diabetes risk among urban African Americans by creating healthy food and physical activity environments within churches. Participant engagement supports the development of applicable intervention strategies by identifying priority concerns, resources, and opportunities.…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Health Promotion, Program Development, Prevention
Coffman, Ann Lynette Nutter – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Alternative teacher certification programs have become a prominent policy option to address teacher quality issues. Despite recent headway in the analysis of alternative teacher preparation graduates and programs (e.g., Weschler, et al., 2009; Boyd, et al., 2007), the literature has been plagued by incomplete program descriptions, limited research…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Policy, Public Schools, School Districts
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Andes, Laurie – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
Since September 2002, business leaders and educators have been examining the differences in business and educational leadership in a professional development partnership, titled, The Academy for Leadership in Education (ALE). This organization was created as a program to encourage the study of leadership and develop the capacity for mentoring new…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Educational Cooperation
Copeland, Leon L., Sr.; Gray, Robert C. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2002
Through the competitive proposal process, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) received a three-year Teacher Enhancement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in March 1998. The Maryland State Department of Education provided additional funds for the grant. The purpose of the grant was to administer the Technology Education…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Professional Training, Technological Literacy, Grants