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Ashley Anne Kaan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem this qualitative case study addressed is how poor online teacher communication has resulted in students enrolled in full-time virtual schools underperforming academically with assignment completion. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' perceptions of how their online communication strategies contribute to the timeliness…
Descriptors: High Schools, Virtual Schools, Electronic Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
Mark Jeremy Colwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Middle-management leaders are in a crucible. In addition to managing their extensive regular duties and leading groups toward common goals, they must navigate conflicting expectations and competing demands from their superiors and subordinates. The challenges in middle-management leadership are exacerbated in fast-paced, high stakes, large-scale…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Organizational Change, Leadership, Virtual Schools
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Ebner, Aviva – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2023
Schools are typically highly structured institutions, so any shifts in processes can potentially generate anxiety, confusion, and even anger among staff. As such, when there is frequent change, initiatives often fail to achieve their intended goals. Well-intentioned initiatives can go awry when not consistently implemented correctly by all staff;…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Change Strategies, Reliability, Access to Information
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Rice, Mary Frances; Ortiz, Kelsey R. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
When parents enroll their children who qualify for special education services in fully online schools, that decision was an exercise of agency. Less is known about how parents understand and negotiate their agencies "after enrolling." Researchers interviewed 18 parents of children with special educational needs in fully online schools in…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Role, Students with Disabilities, Online Courses
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Gustafson, David C.; Haque, MD – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
Virtual schools are one of the fastest growing educational options for students in the United States. In spite of the increase in virtual program options and enrollment, limited research has been conducted on how virtual school principals lead their organizations. This qualitative case study explores the challenges facing virtual school principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Virtual Schools, Leadership, Public Schools
Veney, Debbie; Jacobs, Drew – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
"Voting with Their Feet: A State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" shows hundreds of thousands of families switched to charter schools during the first full school year of the pandemic. During the 2020-21 school year, charter school enrollment grew 7%, the largest increase in half a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
Wallace, Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the American school system into various forms of distance learning, remote learning schools were a small but growing segment of the educational system within the United States. This causal-comparative quantitative study examined demographic variables to assess differences in K-12 teachers' views of their…
Descriptors: Leadership, Virtual Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes
Schultz, Andrew J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School choice is a long-standing tradition in the United States. New to the options available to K-12 parents are full-time virtual schools, and this option is an even more recent development for parents of students with disabilities. Very little research exists on why parents are choosing full-time virtual education for their school-aged…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, Virtual Schools, Charter Schools