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Arellanes, Melissa; Brown-Sims, Melissa; Castro, Marina; Davis, Elisabeth; Garcia-Arena, Patricia; Larsen, Eric; Salvato, Bradley – American Institutes for Research, 2023
Partners to Lead (PtL) is a school leadership professional development (PD) project funded by a 5-year Education Innovation and Research grant and implemented by the DuPage, Illinois, Regional Office of Education (ROE) in 37 public elementary, middle, and high schools in four Illinois ROEs. The American Institutes for Research® (AIR®), the…
Descriptors: School Administration, Leadership Training, Faculty Development, Grants
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Coleman, Adrienne – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
According to the National Science Foundation, "the U.S. STEM workforce must be considered in the context of an expanding and vibrant global scientific and technological enterprise" (2014). "The National Academy of Sciences further suggests that, without the participation of individuals of all races and genders, the increasing demand…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, African American Students
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Mouser, David M.; Sheng, Zhaohui; Thoron, Andrew C.; Baker, Andy; Bacon, Kevin J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Agricultural education is defined by a best practice three-component model of instruction that includes a classroom experience, leadership development and FFA involvement, and an experience-based activity through a Supervised Agricultural Experience program (SAE). Based on program of activities award criteria, each year state FFA associations…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Agricultural Education, Best Practices
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Rosch, David; Simonsen, Jon C.; Velez, Jonathan J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2015
Students (N = 160) in three diverse FFA chapters were surveyed in early fall, midwinter, and late spring in regard to their leadership skills, confidence in leading, and motivation to engage in leadership-oriented behaviors. The results indicated small-to-moderate gains in transformational leadership skill and a marginally significant…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Transformational Leadership, Predictor Variables, Junior High School Students
Sporte, Susan E.; Stevens, W. David; Healey, Kaleen; Jiang, Jennie; Hart, Holly – University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2013
This report focuses on the perceptions and experiences of teachers and administrators during the first year of REACH implementation, which was in many ways a particularly demanding year. These experiences can be helpful to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to other districts across the country as they work to restructure and transform teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools
Anderson, James C., II; Kim, Eunyoung – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
This descriptive study explores the perceptions of and preferences for leadership development by students enrolled in a comprehensive urban agriculture program. A total of 284 students from the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences participated in the study. The results of the study showed that the average respondent was involved in a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Leadership Training, Community Organizations, Agriculture
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Lyman, Linda L.; Gardner, Dianne C. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2008
Definitions are central to both the practice and the power of leadership. This deceptively simple supposition was the basis for an elective doctoral leadership seminar at Illinois State University designed and taught by Lyman in Fall 2005, and replicated by Gardner in Spring 2007. The authors featured the same texts and stimulated students'…
Descriptors: Seminars, Leadership Training, Leadership, Teaching Methods