NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Thomas, Laura R. – Journal of Staff Development, 2013
The author spends a lot of time thinking about good professional learning vs. typical professional development. Based on her 20-plus years of experience, as well as a bit of inspiration from Reuben Duncan, assistant superintendent in School Administrative Unit 29 in Keene, N.H., she shares what she considers to be the ten best ways to waste…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Methods, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Participation
Martin, David – Principal, 2011
This article features Doing What Works (DWW), the largest, most comprehensive, and most insightful repository of effective, research-based instructional practices and other resources currently available to educators. It is a principal's free ticket to accessing an abundance of research-based best practices and school improvement. DWW covers a wide…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Principals, Access to Information, Administrator Role
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Loveless, Sylvia – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2012
For each of the past 19 years, the American Montessori Society has chosen to recognize one Montessorian as an AMS Living Legacy. Recipients are honored at the AMS annual conference for their salient work or volunteerism in the Montessori field and their dedication and leadership that has made an impact on the AMS community. It seems fitting that…
Descriptors: Integrity, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational Methods
McCart, Amy B.; Sailor, Wayne S. – National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center, 2014
SWIFT is a national center whose mission is to help educators provide academic and behavioral support resulting in excellence in education for all students, including boys and young men of color. This mission presumes all educators, school and district staff, family members, and the local community have shared responsibility for the teaching and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Males, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Kelly-Morris, Susan – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1986
Administrators and teachers must gain more knowledge of new research on the gifted and use this information to create new educational programs that make optimal use of gifted students' learning styles and appropriate teaching methods. (CB)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cognitive Style, Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Research
EdSource, 2010
In the 2008-09 school year researchers from EdSource and Stanford University conducted a large-scale study of 303 middle grades schools in California. The team surveyed 303 principals, 3,752 English Language Arts (ELA) and math teachers in grades 6-8, and 157 superintendents of the districts and charter management organizations that oversee the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Cooperative Planning, Mathematics Teachers
Chauncey, Caroline, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2006
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) Making Schools Safer for LGBT Youth: Despite Signs of Progress, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students Say Harassment Persists (Michael Sadowski);…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Homosexuality, Cognitive Psychology, Newsletters
Allen, Lauren E.; Osthoff, Eric; White, Paula; Swanson, Judy – Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, 2005
The first report from this study, "Leading From The Middle: Mid-Level District Staff and Instructional Improvement," was published in August, 2004. Since its publication, Leading from the Middle has been an important tool in helping school and district staff, policy makers, researchers, and reform advocates think differently about the role of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Educational Change, Research Design, Urban Schools