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Conaway, Chad; De Jong, David; Curtin, Susan; Strouse, Gabrielle; Degen, Dustin – Education Leadership Review, 2020
Identifying an appropriate class size is an important decision public schools face as they weigh balancing their budget with the impact class size may have on student achievement. This study examined perceptions of South Dakota kindergarten through third-grade teachers, elementary principals, and superintendents concerning optimal class size and…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Superintendents
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Lipke, Tamara; Manaseri, Holly – School Leadership Review, 2019
Effective K-12 leaders remain a central concern for schools and communities of all types. The purpose of this research is to examine critically the literature on issues facing leaders in rural and urban settings and present a synthesis of cross-cutting themes. The authors reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature on K-12 leadership issues…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Rural Schools
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Albers, Peggy; Flint, Amy Seely; Matthews, Mona – Global Education Review, 2019
This longitudinal ethnographic study involved a professional development project, Project Partnerships Achieve Literacy (Project PAL) in South Africa, with eight rural foundation phase teachers who taught Reception (kindergarten) through grade three (R-3). This Project was designed to support teachers in an under-resourced school as they learned…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Aesthetic Education, Elementary School Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools
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Stockard, Jean – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
This article examined the extent to which administrative decisions that affected the implementation fidelity of Direct Instruction programs were related to student achievement. Data from three studies showed that administrative decisions that disregarded recommended protocols regarding teacher training, teacher preparation, and student schedules…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Program Implementation, Decision Making, Academic Achievement
Clark, Nitasha M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research on elementary teachers' implementation of peer collaboration strategies is limited. Yet, the extensive peer collaboration literature that does exist focuses on student outcomes in urban and suburban settings. A problem with most of the current scope of research about peer collaboration is that it has marginalized the voice of teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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Weiler, Brian; Schuele, C. Melanie; Feldman, Jacob I.; Krimm, Hannah – Grantee Submission, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate, over 2 separate school years, the school-district-wide failure rate of kindergartners on a screener of grammatical tense marking--the Rice Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (TEGI) Screening Test (Rice & Wexler, 2001)--composed of past tense (PT) and third-person singular (3S)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Kindergarten, School Districts
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Rattenborg, Karen; MacPhee, David; Walker, Aimée Kleisner; Miller-Heyl, Jan – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examined correlates of parents' reported school engagement in an ethnically diverse, rural sample (N = 346) of parents and teachers in kindergarten through Grade 2. Of particular interest were role expectations and family-school relationships in American Indian families, who historically have been marginalized by…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Rural Schools, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Parks, Amy Noelle – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Drawing on a 3-year interpretive study that followed a cohort of children from prekindergarten to Grade 1, this article presents results of a multiple case study, which demonstrated that although two children had the same teachers, classmates, and curricula over 3 years, their experiences in the three successive mathematics classrooms were quite…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Math Expressions" is a curriculum for students in prekindergarten through sixth grade that aims to build students' conceptual understanding of mathematics and to develop fluency in mathematical problem solving and computation. The curriculum encourages student learning of mathematics through real-world situations, visual supports such…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Math Expressions" is a curriculum for students in prekindergarten through sixth grade that aims to build students' conceptual understanding of mathematics and to develop fluency in mathematical problem solving and computation. The curriculum encourages student learning of mathematics through real-world situations, visual supports such…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
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Wong, Yau-ho Paul – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Although a quality preschool supports young children's health and safety, "quality" has been defined diversely enough that its delivery has been varied among kindergarten teachers. The current study was the first to examine and compare perceptions of school safety between urban and rural kindergarten teachers. Sixty-seven Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Kindergarten
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Bernard, Cara Faith; Rotjan, Matthew – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2021
In this article, we query how action is contextualized and used in music education, centering the discussion around problems of calling for change without taking action, what Paulo Freire terms "narration sickness." Narration sickness manifests in social media, conferences, and professional development sessions--where words convey ideas…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Music Teachers
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Sharifian, Maryam – International Journal of the Whole Child, 2018
Frequently, our world seems filled with nations in conflict. The ultimate legacy of nations' inability to cooperate will be inherited by the world's children. Perhaps the most effective solution to creating a more peaceful world in the years to come is to provide high quality education for all children. Such education, however, is more likely to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Preschool Education
Swain, Matthew; Randel, Bruce; Norman Dvorak, Rebecca – Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), 2020
Curriculum Associates' "i-Ready® Instruction" is a supplemental, online personalized instruction program available for reading and mathematics. The Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), in collaboration with Century Analytics, implemented a quasi-experimental design (QED) using 2018-19 "i-Ready Diagnostic and…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Public Schools
Swain, Matthew; Randel, Bruce; Norman Dvorak, Rebecca – Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), 2020
Curriculum Associates' "i-Ready® Instruction" is a supplemental, online personalized instruction program available for reading and mathematics. The Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), in collaboration with Century Analytics, implemented a quasi-experimental design (QED) using 2018-19 "i-Ready Diagnostic and…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Public Schools
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