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Pittman, Corinthus Omari; Lawdis, Katina – Journal of Educators Online, 2017
Skilled therapy practitioners are required by their governing associations to seek professional development per licensure requirements. These requirements facilitate clinical reasoning and confidence during patient care. There are limited online professional development workshops, especially ones that offer multifactorial training as an…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Skill Development, Competence, Allied Health Personnel
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Holzberg, Debra G.; Rusher, Dana E. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Since 1990, transition planning has been a requirement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Students receiving services under IDEA must have an individualized education program (IEP) with goals aligned to grade-level content standards. In addition, the IEP must ensure the student has the supports necessary, including…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Transitional Programs
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Eddy-Spicer, David H. – Journal of Educational Change, 2017
Educational systems across the globe are attempting to reshape the vertical and horizontal dimensions of school accountability. The vertical dimension involves devolution of responsibility to individual schools while the horizontal typically entails promoting the professionalism of leaders and teachers through school networks and school-to-school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Change
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Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, 2017
The early childhood period from birth to age 8 is an exciting one for growth, development, and learning. It is when children begin to develop social-emotional competence, and it is also a time when children's emerging skills may result in behaviors adults and peers find challenging. It is important that adults who care for and teach young children…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Early Childhood Education, Special Needs Students, Social Emotional Learning
Michalopoulos, Charles; Faucetta, Kristen; Warren, Anne; Mitchell, Robert – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2017
Children from low-income families are more likely than those from higher income families to have poor social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and health outcomes. One approach that has helped parents and their young children is home visiting, which provides information, resources, and support to expectant parents and families with young…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Groups, Home Visits, Family Programs
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Lazarev, Valeriy; Newman, Denis; Nguyen, Thanh; Lin, Li; Zacamy, Jenna – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
Federal initiatives and other research have led states across the nation to sharpen their focus on teacher evaluation in recent years. In 2009 a seminal report, "The Widget Effect," from The New Teacher Project revealed that in districts using a binary rating system to evaluate teachers, less than 1 percent of teachers received an…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics, Feedback (Response), Faculty Development
College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides increased flexibility for states and districts to develop strategies to support school improvement while, at the same time, emphasizes the importance of implementing evidence-based interventions to support low-performing schools. As states and districts implement comprehensive college and career…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students
Quintero, Esther, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
"Teaching in Context" provides new evidence from a range of leading scholars showing that teachers become more effective when they work in organizations that support them in comprehensive and coordinated ways. The studies featured in the book suggest an alternative approach to enhancing teacher quality: creating conditions and school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Improvement
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Cardichon, Jessica; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
As states develop their accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) they can choose high-leverage measures of school progress that, when combined with effective policies, hold promise for supporting success for the youth most marginalized by the education system. This paper suggests that to promote equity and…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Standards, Equal Education, Suspension
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Lund, Travis J.; Stains, Marilyne – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: Research at the secondary and postsecondary levels has clearly demonstrated the critical role that individual and contextual characteristics play in instructors' decision to adopt educational innovations. Although recent research has shed light on factors influencing the teaching practices of science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Science Instruction
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Fox, Sean B.; McDermott, Carrie L. – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2015
Budgetary shortfalls and excessive layoffs have left public schools with a deficiency of professional innovation as well as modern theory and practice. It is imperative that educators identify the exemplary school systems that are engaging students and adults in 21st century education, and broadcast those patterns of success to schools in need of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Rural Areas, Educational Innovation, Effective Schools Research
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Kern, Lee; Evans, Steven W.; Lewis, Timothy J.; State, Talida M.; Weist, Mark D.; Wills, Howard P. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2015
Educating children and youth with significant social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) problems continues to pose significant challenges for special and general educators. The long-term effects of challenges this group of students experience include school dropout, mental health problems, unemployment, and high incarceration rates. To date, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Intervention, Secondary School Students
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Lampi, Jodi P.; Dimino, Renee K.; Taylor, Judi Salsburg – Journal of Developmental Education, 2015
The authors write here that they fundamentally believe that developmental education is about social justice. Professionals in this field are not only responsible to implement evidence-based best practices but also to ensure access to higher education. To meet this need, it is imperative that practitioners turn, as a supportive team, to…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Professional Development, Models, Theory Practice Relationship
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Roy, George J.; Safi, Farshid; Graul, LuAnn – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
As current mathematics standards, such as the Common Core, are being implemented throughout the United States, it has become evident that teachers need support to enact the tenets of those standards. To help in this endeavor, this article was published as a guideline to emphasize to mathematics education stakeholders that "effective teaching…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Common Core State Standards, Educational Practices
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Riebschleger, Joanne; Norris, Debra; Pierce, Barbara; Pond, Debora L.; Cummings, Cristy – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
Multiple issues that are unique to child welfare social work practice in rural areas markedly affect workforce recruitment and retention, yet little attention is given to the proficiencies needed to equip emerging social workers for this growing area of the field. Curriculum content is needed that provides students with the opportunity to master…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Child Welfare, Rural Areas
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