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Stacey Alicea; Camea Davis; Elizabeth Foster; Rebekah Hornak; Maria Hyler; Annie Morrison; John Papay; Joslyn Richardson; Nate Schwartz; Marjorie Wechsler – Learning Forward, 2025
Improving classroom teaching and learning requires both high-quality instructional materials and high-quality professional learning. Many professional learning stakeholders talk about the value of curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) but there has been little consensus on what it is or how it fits within the larger field of professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement, Learning Processes
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Dilkes, Jessica; Cunningham, Christine; Gray, Jan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
A new national curriculum has recently been implemented across Australia. This paper reports on a case study of a regional Western Australia government school as they re-wrote and taught the phase one learning areas: maths, English, science and HASS. Results showed what it is like to work in an environment where continual change is not only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation
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Marsh, Scott – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
The capacity for schools to improve student learning represents an important area of scholarship for policymakers, schools, and scholars. In understanding how to support student learning, the notion of school leadership has emerged as a key area of research interest. Understanding the influence of this literature in schools is important. As such,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Educational Improvement, Program Improvement, Mixed Methods Research
Fong, Kelley; Visher, Mary G. – MDRC, 2013
For the past decade, MDRC has evaluated a number of interventions designed to improve the outcomes of community college students, including enhanced counseling, learning communities, and financial incentives. Encouragingly, many of these strategies have produced positive effects, affirming that changes in institutional practices and policies can…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Community Colleges, College Programs
Hyland, Aine, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2011
The "Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum and Assessment Project" at University College Cork was a collaborative project carried out between 1995 and 1999. The key research question focused on whether Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences could be applied to, and enhance, aspects of curriculum and assessment at primary and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Multiple Intelligences
Bathurst, Effie G.; Franseth, Jane – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This bulletin describes practices in one- and two-teacher schools that are helping rural boys and girls get a good education. It contains suggestions for improving the programs of schools that do not meet the needs of boys and girls in the country today. In the school year 1947-48, there were approximately 75,000 one-teacher schools and 18,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, One Teacher Schools, Public Schools