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Margaret Terry Orr, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2025
Using improvement science principles and an equity perspective, this book demonstrates how schools and districts can increase their efficacy and how teachers and leaders can improve their practice for the benefit of all students. Through eight case studies representing a variety of K-12 school and community settings, the authors address a range of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Improvement, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Sandra, Ed.; Smith, Mary Ann, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2023
All teachers face challenges--from the daunting and unexpected, like teaching during a pandemic, to nagging doubts about daily interactions and teaching practices. If there were ever a time for sharing teacher personal and professional breakthroughs--the ways teachers have successfully and courageously turned a corner--that time is now. In this…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Change, High School Teachers, College Faculty
Householder, Daniel L., Ed. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2011
Since its initial funding by the National Science Foundation in 2004, the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) has worked to understand the infusion of engineering design experiences into the high school setting. Over the years, an increasing number of educators and professional groups have participated in the expanding…
Descriptors: Engineering, Instructional Design, Technology Education, Science Curriculum
Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2005
This document includes presentation summaries and policy recommendations from the 2004 Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) Education Conference: (1) The Present and Coming Crisis: Demography and Education (Dowell Myers and Estela Mara Bensimon); (2) A View from the Academic Community (Moderators: Jorge Haynes and Jamilah Moore; Presenters:…
Descriptors: Demography, Paying for College, Hispanic American Students, Enrollment Management
Richardson, John M., Jr., Ed. – 1984
This compilation of articles, photographs, commentaries, diagrams, and political cartoons presents positive, practical, and action-oriented core ideas on which to base future-oriented thinking and creative activity. The first of 10 parts presents articles on traditional American principles, ways of facing the future, America's character and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Coping, Economically Disadvantaged, Ethics
Boston, Bedford D., Ed.; Kingsford, Steve, Ed. – 1981
The directors of 12 teacher centers describe their experiences as field agents, in multifaceted roles such as catalysts, solution-givers, facilitators, resource linkers, coordinators, or trainers. Ways that the teacher centers have offered help to schools and to teachers are outlined. The directors believe that change is made first on an…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Consortia, Diffusion