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Hutner, Todd L.; Sampson, Victor; Baze, Christina L.; Chu, Lawrence; Crawford, Richard H. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Calls for engineering integration in pre-collegiate science courses are being made across the globe. The success of such efforts depends heavily on science teachers changing their instructional practices to include engineering. We conjecture when a science teacher chooses to make instructional change, including a change to integrate engineering…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Engineering
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Wei, Feng; Ni, Yongmei – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Parents are one of the most important factors promoting children's educational success. Using parent survey data from rural primary and middle schools in one county, this study examines the implementation of the parent councils (PCs) policy in rural China, specifically, the relationships among PCs, school-based parent involvement (PI), and parent…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship, Rural Schools
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Lesley, Mellinee; Higgins, Amy; Beach, Whitney; Stewart, Elizabeth; Keene, Johanna – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
Many high schools in the United States are contending with modest student writing achievement and looking for ways to enhance teachers' writing instruction. This is especially the case for schools deemed to be "underperforming" and struggling to reform writing pedagogy against an accumulation of teacher and leadership turnover, limited…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 10, High School Teachers, Literacy
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Lederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
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Howell, Penny B.; Gnau, Alice; Peavley, Laura; Workman, Caitlyn – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2021
In the United States during March and April of 2020, more than 50 million K-12 students were impacted by school closures with many forced to engage in online teaching for continuity in their 2019-2020 school year. This disruption to K-12 public and private schools reverberated in programs of teacher education around the country. As…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Middle Schools, Electronic Learning
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Agbaria, Ayman K.; Daibes, Salam; Muff, Aline – Educational Review, 2022
This article discusses a qualitative case study that investigated the micropolitical processes inside an Arab junior high school in Israel during the enactment of the New Horizon reform. Our analysis focuses on how the school's educational staff interprets and translates the reform into practice, how their professional identities have developed…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Principals, Arabs, Teacher Attitudes
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Druken, Bridget Kinsella – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2023
Although lesson study has been shown to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics, little research has focused on reasons for engaging in it from a teacher's perspective, particularly after sustained engagement with lesson study. This qualitative study reports on thirty-three teachers from the United States who were involved in twelve…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Algebra
Liam Cerveny – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study evaluated the stress experienced by teachers as a result of the shutdown of schools in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and the shift to digital teaching. A five-item scale, the Coronavirus Questionnaire (CQ), was created to capture the stress caused specifically by the changes schools had to make as a result of the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Stress Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Zhao, Wenjun; Huang, Rongjin; Cao, Yiming; Ning, Rui; Zhang, Xiaoxia – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to explore how a Chinese lesson study (LS) supports a teacher's learning of transforming curriculum reform ideas into classroom practices. Design/methodology/approach: Data analyzed in this study included lesson plans, three videotaped research lessons, three audio-taped group meetings, interviews, the teacher's reflection…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Lesson Plans, Curriculum Development, Educational Practices
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Valerio, Jennifer – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
This study explored how two professional development approaches to reforming math instruction with different mechanisms for fostering change might have valuable synergies when used in tandem to support take-up, i.e., teachers' acceptance, adoption, and incorporation of ideas into practice. This investigation of Practice-Based Professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Intuition
Donahue, Deborah M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to explore the experiences of teachers during COVID-19, their sense of morale, and the supports that were influential to that sense of morale. Three research questions were explored to better understand how teachers experienced teaching during COVID-19: (1) How do middle school teachers describe the experience of teaching during…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Morale, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Calabrese Barton, Angela; Tan, Edna; Birmingham, Daniel J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Justice-oriented teaching must address how classroom-based disciplinary learning is shaped by interactions among local practice "and" systems of privilege and oppression. Our work advances current scholarship on high-leverage practices [HLPs] by emphasizing the need for teaching practices that restructure power relations in classrooms…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Power Structure, Classroom Environment, Social Justice
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Sterrett, William L.; Hill-Black, Sabrina; Nash, John B. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
An urban middle school goes through the transformation of becoming a university-supported lab school. Drawing upon design thinking principles, the planning team cultivates a sense of shared empathy, creative problem-solving, and an ethos of curiosity and learning in a collaborative environment.
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change, Laboratory Schools
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Alsbury, Thomas L.; Blanchard, Margaret R.; Gutierrez, Kristie S.; Allred, Chris M.; Tolin, A. Dell – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2018
Reform efforts in schools have become increasingly focused on the nature and direction of teamwork in efforts to achieve sustained and systemic districtwide capacity for innovation and needed change. The six-year study reported in this article involved development, implementation, and assessment of a unique collaborative process for districtwide…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Educational Change, Leadership, Sustainability
Nugent, Sean M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
How educational leaders initiate and sustain change is often hotly debated by those inside and outside of the system. Given the many reform initiatives of the past 30 years, and the resulting changes public educators have made lurching from initiative to initiative, one must ask if public education has truly improved. The answer to why public…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Implementation, Consortia, Educational Change
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