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Aliza Zivic; John F. Smith; Brian J. Reiser; Kelsey D. Edwards; Michael Novak; Tara A. W. McGill – Grantee Submission, 2018
A tension in designing classroom learning involves balancing the questions and interests of students with the goals of teachers and standards. One approach to navigating this tension in science classrooms is to simultaneously support and constrain students' questions about an observable natural phenomenon in the classroom and then take up those…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Davidson, Lynn; Garton, Susan; Manges, Charles D. – 2000
This study investigated professional development as provided through the Teacher Leadership Academy (TLA) model used in rural Illinois area school districts and district consortia. Surveys were distributed to TLA participants that sought their perceptions of the desirability, involvement, and feasibility of school reform in general and the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Active Learning, Educational Change, Educational Improvement