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Michelle Doughty – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background/Context: High teacher turnover has directed a great deal of scholarly attention toward the connection between teacher retention and teacher working conditions. Prior work has identified a set of key working conditions associated with teacher retention, including supportive school leadership, school safety, a collaborative professional…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Conditions
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Brady, Michael P. – Educational Review, 2021
Teacher preparation programmes (TPPs) find many ways to shape the development of their teacher candidates while bridging the research to practice gap in university and school partnerships. Recently, accountability models built on high-stakes standardised student assessments (Value-Added Models [VAM]) have been mandated as a way to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness
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Lekwa, Adam J.; Reddy, Linda A.; Dudek, Christopher M.; Hua, Anh N. – School Psychology, 2019
We examined the degree to which assessment of teachers' instructional and behavior management practices, as measured by the Classroom Strategies Assessment System (CSAS; Reddy & Dudek, 2014), relates to gains in student achievement as measured by the Measures of Academic Progress (Northwest Evaluation Association [NWEA], 2011). Two-level…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Teacher Evaluation, Urban Schools, Achievement Tests
Sammons, Pam; Kington, Alison; Lindorff-Vijayendran, Ariel; Ortega, Lorena – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
This study investigates the notion of "inspiring" teaching. The research was commissioned by CfBT as part of a collaborative professional development initiative involving its schools. It arose from headteachers' suggestions that schools nominate a number of "inspiring" teachers so that their practice could be studied and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Observation, Interviews
Smith-Collins, Searetha – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
The vast numbers of new educational policies, programs, and practices being implemented as educational reform in American public schools have not been analyzed for short or long-term effectiveness or impact on students and their learning. Not only are conditions for many learners still a concern, new information about conditions for students who…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Education, Student Diversity, Equal Education
Blaydes, John – Corwin Press, 2004
Today's principals face unique challenges--demands of time, knowledge, and organization, which take their toll on even the most flexible leader. A complement to the insightful "Survival Skills for the Principalship: A Treasure Chest of Time-Savers, Short-Cuts, and Strategies to Help You Keep a Balance in Your Life" (ED495598), this ready-to-edit…
Descriptors: Computer Peripherals, Principals, Stress Management, Instructional Leadership
Blaydes, John – Corwin Press, 2004
Today's principals face unique challenges--demands of time, knowledge, and organization which take their toll on even the most flexible leader. This compilation of resources offers practical, ready-to-use solutions to the issues and dilemmas facing principals every day. These valuable resources can be consulted for years to come as a long-term…
Descriptors: Principals, Stress Management, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Effectiveness