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Musselman, Meagan R.; Crittenden, Meg A.; Lyons, Robert P. – Rural Educator, 2014
This article reports the findings of the 2011 results of 'very rural' Kentucky high schools on the Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Survey to determine whether differences existed between high and low performing rural schools across specific survey items. Schools with ACT scores one standard deviation (or more) above their…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Leadership, Low Achievement, High Achievement
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Eargle, Jeffrey C. – Rural Educator, 2013
Rural teachers need ongoing, flexible professional development designed to encourage collaboration and curriculum development. Furthermore, rural school reform requires successful collaborations between schools and colleges to create leaders within schools. Therefore, this case study is a program review that investigates how social studies…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, College School Cooperation
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Vaughn, Margaret; Saul, Melissa – Rural Educator, 2013
Advocates of rural education emphasize the need to examine supports which may promote rural educators given the challenging contexts of which they face. Teacher visioning has been conceptualized as a navigational tool to help sustain and promote teachers given high-challenging contexts. The current study explored 10 public school teachers from…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Public School Teachers, Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes