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Michelle J. Gibson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have created opportunities, within schools, as a means to work together to share professional inquiry and further explore various strategies to increase student achievement. Previous research on PLCs mostly focused on ways school staff and faculty engaged on topics of student performance and student…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Internet, Mentors, Beginning Teachers
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Ahmad Medadi; Amir Hossein Mahdavi – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper examines the influence of Iranian teacher unions on educational policy reforms, focusing on the evolution of teacher unions over the past two decades. Our key finding reveals a shift in the discourse and mental model of Iranian teacher unions, with an increased emphasis on education policy changes for quality and equity education.…
Descriptors: Unions, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Lee, Jung Min; Rogers, Aracelis; Young, William – Adult Learning, 2018
The purpose of this study was to identify selected characteristics of current Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) members in Florida and then compare the results between Florida and non-Florida institutes. This study was primarily quantitative and employed the Demographic and Behavioral Trends Survey (DBTS) with the addition of four…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Individual Characteristics, Adult Education, Retirement