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Charter School Innovations: A Teacher Growth Model
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Radoslovich, Julie; Roberts, Shelley; Plaza, Andres – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Committed to being a charter school with a professional learning community that empowers teachers, New Mexico's South Valley Academy (SVA) staff transformed its state evaluation process into a practitioner action research process (Anderson, Herr, & Nihlen, 2007). While teachers self-diagnose growth needs and play active roles in improving…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Models, School Law
Early Childhood Community School Linkages: Advancing a Theory of Change
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Geiser, Kristin E.; Rollins, S. Kwesi; Gerstein, Amy; Blank, Martin J. – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2013
In 2009, the Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership (CCS-IEL) embarked on an ambitious action research and development project, leveraging the community school system infrastructure present in three geographic regions (Tulsa, Oklahoma; Multnomah County, Oregon; Albuquerque, New Mexico) to advance research and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Community Schools, Program Implementation, Action Research
Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy: Children Making Meaning in a Chicano Community. Educational Psychology: Critical Pedagogical Perspectives. Volume 9
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Connery, M. Cathrene – Peter Lang New York, 2011
How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual communities? This book examines the emergent biliteracy development of two kindergarteners growing up in a New Mexican neighborhood. Using ethnographic accounts, the book portrays the familial,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Psychology, Multilingualism, Emergent Literacy