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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
Marino, Patricia H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study explores the experience of specialist teachers specific to their individual roles within the coaching model (CM). Reasons for in-depth study include (a) Rochester's struggle to meet federal and state student achievement benchmarks, (b) practitioner frustrations from site-level resistance or CM use, and (c) shifting role…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Educational Change, Specialists, School Culture
Carrera, Hazel C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the use of instructional coaching in one urban school as a form of professional development for teachers. The use of instructional coaches in the classroom has become more and more popular in many school districts across the nation as they look for ways to improve student performance by improving the performance of their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Urban Schools, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
Urquhart, Jill C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Project LOGgED ON was a project supported by the U.S. Department of Education that maintained two initiatives, a.) to provide online case based professional development for teachers in gifted education, b.) to provide online advanced science curriculum for underserved gifted students. For the purposes of this study, the author will examine the…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Participant Satisfaction, Online Courses, Science Curriculum
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Hill, Djanna A.; Gillette, Maureen D. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2005
Paterson Teachers for Tomorrow (PT4T) is a collaborative project between the Paterson, NJ Public Schools and the College of Education at William Paterson University of New Jersey (WPUNJ), created to attract talented high school students from Paterson to careers in teaching, prepare them to be effective teaching professionals, and return them to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
All superintendents of schools in cities of 5,000 population and over were recently invited by the United States Commissioner of Education to describe plans or methods they had worked out in their respective schools during the past few years. In response to this invitation, several hundred letters were received. Some gave complete accounts of one…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Educational Innovation, School Administration