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Rongjin Huang; Joanna C. Weaver; Gabriel Matney; Xingfeng Huang; Joshua Wilson; Christine Painter – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to explore teachers' learning processes through a hybrid cross-cultural lesson study (LS) because little is known about the learning process through this novel and promising LS approach. Design/methodology/approach: This cross-cultural LS lasted over six months focusing on developing a research lesson (RL) related to…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, International Cooperation, Lesson Plans
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Anthony, Anika Ball; Gimbert, Belinda G.; Luke, Jeremy B.; Hurt, Marie Hoffman – Journal of School Leadership, 2019
Research has affirmed the importance of principals and mentors in supporting novice teachers; however, little is known about how teacher leaders contribute to this work. We employed a mixed methods design to examine teacher leaders' contributions to induction by surveying principals, teachers, and other staff (n = 246) and interviewing teacher…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Role
Jones, Marvin B., II – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' lived experiences in professional learning communities, conceptualized in Ohio as teacher based teams. This study was carried out against the backdrop of state policies addressed to poorly performing schools. School culture must change in failing schools. In order to change culture (Kowalski,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Communities of Practice, State Policy, School Effectiveness
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Dever, Robin; Ross, Diane; Miller, Jennifer; White, Paula; Jones, Karen – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2014
The characteristics of the middle level philosophy as described in This We Believe closely parallel the collaborative research process. The journey of one research team is described in relationship to these characteristics. The collaborative process includes strengths such as professional relationships, professional development, courageous…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Principles, Educational Philosophy, Cooperation
Kaplan, Claire; Chan, Roy; Farbman, David A.; Novoryta, Ami – National Center on Time & Learning, 2015
This study looks deeply inside 17 schools that stand at the vanguard of the current revolution in teaching. This new National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) report reveals the substantive ways in which these schools are providing their teachers with more time to reflect on, develop, and hone their craft, by very explicitly leveraging an…
Descriptors: Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Morgan, Denise N.; Williams, Jeffrey L.; Clark, Barbara; Hatteberg, Scott; Hauptman, Gayle Marek; Kozel, Claudia; Paris, Joe – Middle School Journal (J1), 2013
Guided reading is an instructional practice commonly used in primary and intermediate grades (Ford & Opitz, 2008; Fountas & Pinnell, 2001). It is used less in middle grades settings (Allen, 2000) where "one size-fits-all instruction" prevails (Allington, 2012). While teachers can read about the principles of guided reading in…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction