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Wilcox, Kristen C. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2022
COVID-19 prompted unprecedented disruptions to schools with challenges particularly severe for high-poverty remote rural schools. This case study recounts the story of a rural school that had participated in a research-practice partnership (RPP) multi-year improvement effort prior to the pandemic and documents the ways the RPP and the school-based…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Schools, Poverty
Ferrara, JoAnne; Siry, Christina – Teacher Education and Practice, 2010
In this article we describe a professional development school that was created within a community school to prepare preservice teachers to work with an increasingly diverse student population, which is now common in many suburban school districts. The professional development school involved a 4-year college and a community school. We discuss the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Community Schools, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Johnston, Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2008
The practice of paying students to earn good grades either in class or on standardized achievement tests has touched off a storm of controversy. Praised by some educators as a way of linking economic rewards to school performance, it is being tested in a number of large cities, such as New York, Baltimore and Chicago, as well as some smaller…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evidence, Achievement Tests, Rewards
Gorlewski, Julie A., Ed.; Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Gorlewski, David A., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, High Stakes Tests, Resistance (Psychology), Standardized Tests
Marri, Anand R. – Action in Teacher Education, 2010
This case study examines the perspectives of a teacher and a set of students in a U.S. history classroom in a "last chance" public New York City high school--with "last chance" being a common term used to describe schools designed for struggling students, those who have a history of truancy, or those who have dropped out. The…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, United States History, Law Related Education, Classroom Environment
Teaching Music, 2007
In this installment of "Members Speak Out," the author discusses a game that teachers can play with their band and orchestra students. Called "Drop the Needle," it involves starting a musical recording in the middle and trying to determine what period it is from and who might have composed it. This game allows more experienced…
Descriptors: Radio, Classical Music, Music Education, Musicians
Clayton, Christine Del Gaudio; Schoonmaker, Frances – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article examines the career trajectories and biographies of three women who completed the same graduate preservice program in elementary education. While two have become successful teacher leaders, the third has moved in and out of teaching. This inquiry draws on a ten-year longitudinal study of one of these teachers, positioning that…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Universities, Elementary Education
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2008
"Focus on Basics" is a publication of the U.S. Division of World Education, Inc. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to connecting research…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Patients
Robertson, Joanne Marie – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2008
This descriptive narrative presents a university/school partnership that led to an inquiry-based approach to language arts instruction, resulting in increased opportunities for reflective teaching and learning, students' environmental awareness projects, the integration of science, and the individualization of instruction at the middle school…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Inquiry, Program Descriptions, College School Cooperation
Light, Daniel; Honey, Margaret; Heinze, Juliet; Brunner, Cornelia; Wexler, Dara; Mandinach, Ellen; Fasca, Chad – Education Development Center, Inc., 2005
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation, in the spring of 2002, EDC's Center for Children and Technology began a two-year exploratory study that examined how educators and administrators within the New York City public school system are using data?made available to them through the print and web-based reporting system of the Grow Network to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Urban Schools, Student Evaluation, Public Schools
Connecting Research to Teaching: Classroom Research and Classroom Practice: Blurring the Boundaries.

Tinto, Patricia P.; And Others – Mathematics Teacher, 1994
Presents a case study which describes the experiences of two classroom mathematics teachers and the impact that their own research has had on themselves as teachers; traces their entry into the world of research beyond the classroom. (19 references) (MKR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Educational Researchers
St. John, Mark; Helms, Jenifer V.; Castori, Pam; Hirabayashi, Judy; Lopez, Laurie; Phillips, Michelle – Inverness Research, 2009
The documents enclosed in this report provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the progress made in developing a network organization capable of supporting nanoscience education for the public on a national scale. There is a logic to the studies that were done and to the reports that are included in this notebook. The following are the…
Descriptors: Workshops, Leadership, Administrators, Scientists
Vella, Jane – 2002
This book, based on the work of a teacher and community development expert with many years of teaching adult education in numerous developing countries all over the world, provides a process for teaching and learning with adults. The book is illustrated with stories from the author's experience and examples that show how to begin, set up, carry…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy