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Friedman, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Our nation's 16,800 school districts spend billions of dollars a year on professional development. The best professional development is a critical need. Many educators enter teaching underprepared, especially in our communities of concentrated poverty. However, in reality, professional development often reflects our most anachronistic practices,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Innovation, Sustainability, Trust (Psychology)
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Megin Charner-Laird; Stacy Agee Szczesiul – Educational Forum, 2025
The Massachusetts Innovation Schools initiative authorized educators to operate with increased autonomy and flexibility. This descriptive case study examines the early experiences of teachers in one innovation school. We explore the innovations teachers leveraged to build capacity, with particular attention to how they enacted teacher leadership…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Case Studies, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2024
This is the technical appendix for the report "From Insights to Impact: Fostering Innovation through Texas" which examines the current national landscape of higher education research and development to help gauge Texas' current position and identify opportunities to drive further innovations into the future. This appendix includes the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Development, Technology
McDonald, Kerry – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2022
JEM Learning is a new microschool community that provides families with a child-centered alternative to both traditional public and private schools. Microschools like JEM Learning are small, multi-age learning communities with paid educators that are reminiscent of the one-room schoolhouse model. They were gaining traction prior to 2020, but their…
Descriptors: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Education, Educational Innovation
Aurora Institute, 2021
A significant movement is underway across the nation to design K-12 assessment systems that better equip stakeholders to provide an equitable and excellent education to each child. While some of these innovations emerged before the pandemic, the massive disruption to instruction fueled a new urgency to rethink the potential of assessments to drive…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Educational Trends, Innovation
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Paula S. Kiser; Christina Larson; Kevin M. O'Sullivan; Anne Peale – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This study draws upon faculty interviews conducted in 2019 and 2021 to document dramatic shifts in primary source instruction of undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Synthesizing these data, it analyzes how faculty cultivated pedagogical practice, developed practical approaches to teaching with primary sources, and adjusted goals…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Cuevas, Erica – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Jobs for the Future's (JFF) vision for the Big Blur calls for entirely new educational institutions and systems to better prepare 16-to-20-year-olds for college and careers. This paper examines the new type of governance needed to help states create more effective grade 11-14 schools and systems by erasing the arbitrary dividing line between high…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Governance, Educational Development
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Kevin Berner; Jennifer C. Buxton; Loren F. McMahon – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2024
Assistive technology (AT) supports engagement for individuals with disabilities by improving independence in daily living tasks, work and productive activities, learning activities, and societal participation. However, for many individuals, access to AT is limited due to high costs, device availability, and inability to be customized. The Maker…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Assistive Technology, Disabilities, Professionalism
Moner, William, Ed.; Motley, Phillip, Ed.; Pope-Ruark, Rebecca, Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
The future of liberal education in the United States, in its current form, is fraught but full of possibility. Today's institutions are struggling to maintain viability, sustain revenue, and assert value in the face of rising costs. But we should not abandon the model of pragmatic liberal learning that has made America's colleges and universities…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, Undergraduate Study, Educational Innovation
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Pangelinan, Cara – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2021
Like every school across the country, Holyoke High School, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, struggled during remote learning: Teachers had to adjust to new technologies, and many students felt disconnected from the school environment. Despite these pandemic-induced challenges, Holyoke school leaders and staff kept student engagement at the forefront of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Educational Innovation, Educational Attainment, Learner Engagement
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Badrinarayan, Aneesha; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
There is a growing call to reconsider current approaches to national and state assessment system policies and practices. State and local education agency leaders, educators, community leaders, and advocates have voiced concerns that current state assessment systems--defined primarily by end-of-year multiple-choice tests--are unable to meet…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Federal Government, Government Role, State Government
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Gross, Betheny; McCann, Sarah – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
In summer 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), with support from the Barr Foundation, began observing and learning from students, parents, and educators in New England high schools as they navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic. The authors wanted to see what challenges and opportunities they faced, the ways in which they…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, High Schools, Educational Innovation
Leary, Carol A. – Liberal Education, 2019
In 2020, Carol Leary will be retiring as president of Bay Path University after twenty-five years. Her career in education, however, has spanned more than four decades. As she prepares to move on to the next chapter of her life, she reflects on her Bay Path journey and shares her optimism about the challenges higher education faces today. She…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Womens Education, Single Sex Colleges, Private Colleges
Huckle, Erin; LeVangie, Samantha; Tierney-Fife, Peter – Region 1 Comprehensive Center, 2021
Disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic introduced opportunities for PK-12 education systems to accelerate evidence-based innovations that may better prepare students to pursue their educational and career goals. Thoughtfully designed pathways--the programs and experiences that students complete to satisfy graduation requirements--can…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Innovation, College Readiness
Aquino-Sterling, Cristian R., Ed.; Gort, Mileidis, Ed.; Flores, Belinda Bustos, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022
This edited volume extends our field of studies by highlighting novel 21st century curricular designs and pedagogical practices in the preparation of future bilingual teachers and their relevance for advancing curriculum, instruction, and educational achievement across bilingual school contexts. In particular, the volume provides a much-needed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers, Educational Innovation
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