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Barber, Krystal A. – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2021
During lesson study teachers collaborate to design, teach, observe, and reflect on a lesson with the overarching goals of improving instruction and increasing student learning. This article examines how a 6th grade mathematics lesson study project challenged teachers' ideas and assumptions about their students' understanding of fraction concepts.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Grade 6, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Nennig, Hannah T.; States, Nicole E.; Macrie-Shuck, Michael; Fateh, Shaghayegh; Gunes, Zubeyde Demet Kirbulut; Cole, Renee; Rushton, Gregory T.; Shah, Lisa; Talanquer, Vicente – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
A variety of research studies reveal the advantages of actively engaging students in the learning process through collaborative work in the classroom. However, the complex nature of the learning environment in large college general chemistry courses makes it challenging to identify the different factors that affect students' cognitive and social…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Active Learning
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Coddett, Andrea; Orr, Margaret Terry – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2020
This case is to help district leaders and community partners understand the complexity of pursuing a principles-based approach to improving early school readiness. Wyckoff Public Schools adopted the Boston Basics to support young children's early learning and readiness for school. It required district leaders and partners to work across…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Systems Approach, School Readiness, Public Schools
Bradley Wingert – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the content, student learning outcomes, and types of measures used for assessment in music appreciation courses across the State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges. Data was collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire; instructional faculty of music appreciation courses at SUNY…
Descriptors: Music Appreciation, Courses, Music Education, Course Content
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Tammy J. Bishop; Nara Martirosyan; D. Patrick Saxon; Forrest Lane – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2018
Recent trends in developmental education (DE) include the reduction of time spent in DE courses, which includes the acceleration of the course content. In 2011, the North Carolina Community College System redesigned all DE mathematics courses using this trend of acceleration. This study looks at the subsequent gateway mathematics course success…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Course Evaluation, Community College Students
Ganga, Elizabeth; Mazzariello, Amy – Education Commission of the States, 2019
Community colleges and open-access, four-year colleges admit nearly everyone who applies and enroll students with a wide range of skills. Many of these colleges run developmental education programs for students who they determine are underprepared for college-level courses. More than two-thirds of community college students are assigned to…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Student Evaluation, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Vahed, Anisa – Learning Environments Research, 2022
The Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Virtual Exchange Project (VEP) emerged as a pedagogically-innovative and low-cost initiative to internationalise the curriculum and create team-taught coursework that links university classes in different countries. A COIL-VEP was formed between Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, International Cooperation, Team Teaching, Higher Education
Blanck, Evelyn J.; Foley, Gilbert M.; Costa, Gerard – ZERO TO THREE, 2022
In this article, the authors describe a 3-year initiative in New York state, led by the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD), through which more than 2,500 mental health clinicians were trained in the DC:0-5. Funding was provided through the creative use of the Preschool Development, Birth to Five federally funded Block Grant, and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Allied Health Personnel, Professional Development
Karp, Melinda Mechur; Lundy-Wagner, Valerie – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015
"Collective impact" is a new place-based model of educational and social intervention that aims to shift responsibility for improvement in outcomes from individual organizations to entire systems that affect the lives of people in a particular location. CCRC's "Corridors of College Success Series" provides insights into…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Intervention, Community Action, Community Programs
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Coakley-Fields, Mary R. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2021
This article presents a case study of a fourth-grade teacher, Kathy Topaz (all names are pseudonyms), her seventeen students, and the ways that they talked about and rehearsed essay-writing through speech across the school year in an inclusive fourth grade class. With increased focus on informational writing and opinion writing in curriculum and…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops, Expository Writing
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Weaver, Shatera – Learning Professional, 2021
In her essay "Homeplace," social activist and author bell hooks defines a homeplace as a space where Black people are able to "recover our wholeness" and "where we can be affirmed in our minds and hearts … where we could restore ourselves the dignity denied us on the outside in the public world" (hooks, 1990). As dean…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Educational Environment, Equal Education, African American Students
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Vidal, Helena; Hockstein, Lisa; Ahern, Joy; Stein, Karen – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
Museum educators and instructors of English as a Second Language (ESOL) at a community college in New York reflect on their experiences facilitating a program designed to enrich the language, cultural, and visual literacy skills of adult immigrant students. The CALTA21 program brought together three stakeholders, immigrant ESOL students, language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Museums, Communities of Practice, English (Second Language)
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Meredith, Genevive R. F.; Patchen, Amie K.; Baker, Audrey Z. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
The interdisciplinary field of public health promotes health among populations. Complex public health needs persist in the United States, influenced largely by social and structural determinants. Viable solutions require creativity and a commitment to change the status quo, facilitated by collaborative problem-solving. Public health education…
Descriptors: Public Health, Service Learning, School Community Programs, Knowledge Level
Theresa Saladino – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Current persistence and completion rates have moved to the forefront in higher education nationwide. A new generation of Americans is on the rise: highly entrepreneurial, pluralistic, and determined to take charge of their own futures. There is a demand for colleges to provide more creative ways of serving and retaining students. Generation Z…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment
Troester-Trate, Katy Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As higher education enrollment patterns have changed, so too has the focus for institutional administrators. The community schools model is currently being piloted in New York State in an effort to increase the bleak retention and persistence rates of community college students. College students have been shown to be retained at higher rates when…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Barriers, Community Colleges
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