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Courtney, Matthew B. – Rural Educator, 2020
Since 2015, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has provided schools across the state with access to highly skilled instructional coaches. Primarily working in rural settings, these coaches provide a voluntary, integrated coaching model that focuses on building sustainable systems. Coaches provide a range of services, including systems…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
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Porter, Maureen K. – Rural Educator, 1997
Faced with mandated reforms of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, a mountain community grappled with the challenges of coupling top-down state mandates with bottom-up advocacy and engagement. A year of participant observation revealed six interrelated and paradoxical themes that emerged as these Appalachians created local ownership of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Change