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Pak, Katie; McLaughlin, Jillian; Saldívar García, Erica; Desimone, Laura M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
The current context of standards-based reform has positioned regional service centers (RSCs), intermediary governmental agencies that support state policy implementation in local districts, as a critical source of professional development (PD). In this article, we ask how a governing body that districts often interact with during challenging…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Standards, State Standards, Education Service Centers
Pak, Katie; McLaughlin, Jillian; Saldivar Garcia, Erica; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The current context of standards-based reform has positioned regional service centers (RSCs), intermediary governmental agencies that support state policy implementation in local districts, as a critical source of professional development (PD). In this article, we ask how a governing body that districts often interact with during challenging…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Standards, State Standards, Education Service Centers
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Desimone, Laura M.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Flores, Nelson; Pak, Katie; Edgerton, Adam; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, Emily C.; Porter, Andrew – Educational Researcher, 2019
This study identifies seven major trends in how states and districts are implementing college- and career-ready standards for general education students and for two special populations often the target of education policy--English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). We draw on state-representative teacher, principal,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Implementation
Desimone, Laura M.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Flores, Nelson; Pak, Katie; Edgerton, Adam; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, Emily C.; Porter, Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study identifies seven major trends in how states and districts are implementing college- and career-ready standards for general education students and for two special populations often the target of education policy--English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). We draw on state-representative teacher, principal,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Implementation
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Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Purpose: Our primary purpose is to examine the implementation of college- and- career- readiness content standards in Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas through the lens of distributed leadership theory, and to determine the affordances and challenges of this distributed leadership through the lens of policy attribute theory. Research Methods/Approach: We…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Standards, State Standards
Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study examines the implementation of college- and- career- readiness content standards in Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas through the lens of distributed leadership theory, and determines the affordances and challenges of this distributed leadership through the lens of policy attribute theory. Data sources are 66, hour-long interviews of state and…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Standards, State Standards
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Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M.; Parsons, Arianna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Though scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to be content-focused, active, collaborative, coherent, and sustained, the application of this framework has yielded mixed results. In this qualitative study, we employed…
Descriptors: Professional Development, School Districts, Educational Policy, Academic Standards