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Download full textSarah Guthery; Kathryn V. Dixon – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We use frame analysis to analyze the first iteration of the Texas District of Innovation policy, which allows districts to take exemption from state education requirements mandating the hiring of a state certified teacher. We analyzed 451 district policies and find the plans use very similar, and sometimes identical, language to frame both the…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, State Policy, Alternative Teacher Certification
Aspen Institute, 2018
Ideal for faculty and administrators looking to blend business education and the liberal arts, this toolkit combines exemplary syllabi from 26 leading institutions with step-by-step strategies to advocate successfully for curricular innovation. Conceived with comprehensiveness in mind, these resources cover both inspiration and implementation for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Business Administration Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts
Direct linkMartin, Taylor; Peacock, Stephanie Baker; Ko, Pat; Rudolph, Jennifer J. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2015
Although the consensus seems to be that high-school-level introductory engineering courses should focus on design, this creates a problem for teacher training. Traditionally, math and science teachers are trained to teach and assess factual knowledge and closed-ended problem-solving techniques specific to a particular discipline, which is unsuited…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Engineering, Engineering Education
Garcia, Oscar N.; Varanasi, Murali R.; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Guturu, Parthasarathy – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
We analyze and study the beginning of a new Electrical Engineering Department, supported by an NSF Departmental Level Reform award, within a new College of Engineering in the 21st Century and also describe the academic approach and influences of an innovative cognitive-based approach to curriculum development. In addition, the approach taken…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Electrical Occupations, Engineering, Departments
MacNeil, Angus J.; Prater, Doris L.; Busch, Steve – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2009
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether Exemplary, Recognized and Acceptable schools differ in their school climates, as measured by the 10 dimensions of the Organizational Health Inventory. Significant differences were found on all 10 dimensions of the Organizational Health Inventory, with Exemplary schools out-performing Acceptable…
Descriptors: School Culture, Standardized Tests, School Effectiveness, Statistical Significance
Busch, Steve; Johnson, Shirley; Robles-Piña, Rebecca; Slate, John R. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
In this study, the researchers examined principal behaviors related with change in school climate. That is, the manner in which principals managed change within their schools and the impact of these change behaviors on the school climate was investigated. Through use of the Leadership Profile (Johnson, 2003) and the Organizational Health Inventory…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedBrimberry, Alice C. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1996
Discusses how study teams at one Texas elementary school function in helping the individual student, and provides an evaluation of this approach based on three examples: (1) the case study team; (2) the reading study team; and (3) the quality of life team. Lessons learned from this approach are explored. (GR)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Lankford, Mary D. – School Library Journal, 1994
Describes a districtwide project to provide elementary school children with flexible library access. The importance of flexible access, factors leading to project success, how the project was sold to librarians and principals, project problem solving, and lessons learned during the project's first year are discussed. (Contains seven references.)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Everyday Mathematics," published by Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, is a core curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade 6 covering numeration and order, operations, functions and sequences, data and chance, algebra, geometry and spatial sense, measures and measurement, reference frames, and patterns. At each grade level, the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Mathematics Education, Kindergarten
