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Hessenauer, Sarah L.; Law, Kristi – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2017
The purpose of this article is to highlight mentoring as an important piece of leading a learning community. The authors will share a definition of mentoring which is applicable to the learning community experience. Characteristics of mentoring will be described, including types of mentoring and mentor-mentee relationships. The authors will apply…
Descriptors: Mentors, Communities of Practice, College Faculty, College Students
Valentine, Jessa; Price, Derek; Yang, Haisheng – Lumina Foundation, 2021
This report examines the relationship between students' participation in high-impact practices (HIP) and their perceived learning gains, with special attention paid to the nature of these relationships among Black and Hispanic students and among students 25 years or older. In 2018, with support from Lumina Foundation, the National Association of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Achievement Gains, Correlation, Student Participation
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Arney, Jo; Canada, Mark; Dale, Timothy – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
At the beginning of the 2016 academic year 77,214 freshman students at 44 campuses began the fall semester participating in the Re-Imagining the First Year (RFY) initiative of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). These 44 institutions have formed a learning community that reviews and shares evidence-based practices,…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, College Freshmen, Campuses, Evidence Based Practice
Nixon, Jessie; Halverson, Erica; Stoiber, Andy – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2021
The Exploring Making Through Mobile Emergent Technologies (EMMET) program sought to disrupt the trajectory from rural high school to factory floor by introducing STEM and computational thinking (STEM+C) skills through mentorship training and hands-on activities involving creative production--often referred to as "making." The program…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Walz, Kenneth A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Over the past decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and Madison Area Technical College (Madison College) partnered to create an internship pathway for graduate students pursuing careers as future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty members. Since 2003, 10 doctoral students from the university completed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internship Programs, Graduate Students, STEM Education
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Schneider, Melanie; Huss-Lederman, Susan; Sherlock, Wallace – TESOL Journal, 2012
When professional learning communities (PLCs) are developed to promote the academic achievement of English language learners (ELLs), the results can benefit not only ELLs but the whole school. This article examines the ventures of three high schools that implemented PLCs as part of a Title III National Professional Development Project. The authors…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, English Language Learners, Communities of Practice