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Crawford-Willis, Antoinette – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Kentucky school districts have been charged to present an academic program review that documents the use of dance across curriculum content at all grade levels. This program review will replace statewide standardized tests for all students in the state of Kentucky and will count 20% toward each school's accountability score. Schools within the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Dance, Role
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Browne-Ferrigno, Tricia – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2007
This article shares findings from an exploratory case study about an advanced school leadership development program designed specifically for practicing principals and administrator-trained teachers. The program was designed to help a high-need rural district transform its principalship from school management into learner-center leadership while…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Principals, Teacher Leadership
LaPointe, Michella; Davis, Stephen – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
In an effort to increase the knowledge about professional development programs that promote strong instructional leaders, the Wallace Foundation recently commissioned a study of innovative principal professional development programs and the policy and funding mechanisms that support them. In fall 2003, the foundation awarded a grant to a team of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Master Teachers, Curriculum
Mutchler, Fred; Craig, W. J. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
The part of the educational system that has received least attention in the immediate past is the rural school. Much good work has been and is now being done in the reorganization of courses of study, in training teachers, in planning for material equipment, and all the various details that help make an efficient school system. While these efforts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Rural Schools, Preservice Teacher Education