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Jingping Sun; Jiangang Xia; Cheng Hua; Kaiwen Man; Bob L. Johnson Jr. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2024
Purpose: There is little consensus in the literature regarding a) what it means for a school leader to lead with data, and b) how to measure data-informed leadership in a reliable and valid way. This study examines the psychometric properties of an operational measure intended to assess the extent to which a school leader is a data-informed school…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Data Use, Leadership, Surveys
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Doubet, Kristina J.; Southall, Gena – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2018
This study examined the extent to which middle and high school English teachers integrate reading and writing instruction as complementary processes. Using qualitative research methods, researchers investigated the following: (a) Do middle and high school English teachers conceive of and enact the teaching of reading and writing as integrated…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Middle Schools
Gao, Niu; Lafortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2019
In 2010, California adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for math and English. The new standards are part of a state effort to prepare students for college and careers in the 21st-century global economy and narrow longstanding achievement gaps. The state's implementation is complete, but because districts decide whether and when they…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Thomas, Tara; Tieken, Christopher H.; Kang, Li; Bennett, Nadia; Cronin, Sean; Torrento, Jillian – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2023
The 2022-2023 AASA Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study marks the ninth consecutive edition of this study. The 2022-2023 version employed a slightly revised and updated survey instrument. The survey tracked the demographics, salary, benefits, and other elements of the employment agreements of school superintendents throughout the country.…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Salaries, Fringe Benefits, Administrator Surveys
Thomas, Tara; Tieken, Christopher H.; Kang, Li; Petersen, George J. – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2022
The 2021-22 AASA Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study marks the ninth consecutive edition of this study. The 2021-2022 version employed a slightly revised and updated survey instrument. The survey tracks the demographics, salary, benefits, and other elements of the employment agreements of school superintendents throughout the country. The…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Salaries, Fringe Benefits, Administrator Surveys
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Olofson, Mark W.; Downes, John M.; Petrick Smith, Carmen; LeGeros, Life; Bishop, Penny A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2018
Reforms to support and expand personalized learning increasingly are being introduced in middle schools across the United States. Personalization, as enacted in response to these reforms, encourages teachers to implement many practices that long have been recommended by advocates of middle grades philosophy. To better understand the practices of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers
Mandinach, Ellen B.; Miskell, Ryan C.; Gheen, Margaret – WestEd, 2016
This report provides a description of a study conducted by WestEd on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to examine how the affordances of the technologies in the blended learning environments of three charter schools impacted teaching and learning activities. A particular focus of the work was to examine whether the blended learning…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Charter Schools, Technology Uses in Education, Data
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Gray, Lucinda; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This report provides nationally representative data on public school safety and discipline for the 2013-14 school year. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) previously collected data on this topic in the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), which was last conducted in the 2009-10 school year (Neiman 2011). This report presents…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Safety, Discipline, National Surveys
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Mee, Molly; Haverback, Heather Rogers – American Secondary Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate middle school principals' knowledge of the state's new middle level teacher certification, their hiring preferences for newly certified teachers, and their perceptions of middle certified teacher' competencies in teaching various subject areas to middle school students. Survey data indicated that the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Middle School Teachers
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Boyland, Lori G.; Kirkeby, Kimberley M.; Boyland, Margaret I. – NASSP Bulletin, 2018
Principals should lead for social justice, particularly in support of marginalized and vulnerable students like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) adolescents. This quantitative survey-based study collected data from 116 middle grade principals in Indiana to examine the implementation of antibullying policies and best…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Middle Schools
Rogers, Christian; Tienken, Christopher H.; Ross, Lavetta; Petersen, George J. – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2021
The 2020-21 AASA Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study marks the ninth consecutive edition of this study. The 2020-2021 version employed a slightly revised and updated survey instrument. The survey tracks the demographics, salary, benefits, and other elements of the employment agreements of school superintendents throughout the country. The…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Salaries, Fringe Benefits, Administrator Surveys
Rogers, Christian; McCord, Robert S. – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2020
The 2019-20 AASA Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study marks the eighth edition of this study, employing an annually revised and updated survey instrument. This survey tracks the demographics, salary, benefits, and other elements of the employment agreements of school superintendents throughout the country. This year's study is based on more…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Salaries, Fringe Benefits, Administrator Surveys
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Judson, Eugene; Ernzen, John; Krause, Stephen; Middleton, James A.; Culbertson, Robert J. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2016
In this exploratory study we examined the alignment of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) middle school engineering design standards with lesson ideas from middle school teachers, science education faculty, and engineering faculty (4-6 members per group). Respondents were prompted to provide plain language interpretations of two middle…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Engineering Education, Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers
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Storz, Mark; Hoffman, Amy – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2018
As an urban middle school begins to implement the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program, this study explores the process of experiencing a curricular change from the perspective of the teachers and students themselves. Through the use of a mixed methods approach, key administrators, teachers, and students were interviewed in the first…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Advanced Placement Programs
McCord, Robert S.; Finnan, Leslie A. – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2019
The 2018-19 AASA Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study marks the seventh edition of this study, employing a revised survey instrument. This survey tracks the demographics, salary, benefits and other elements of the employment contracts of school superintendents throughout the country. This year's study is based on 1,433 responses…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Salaries, Fringe Benefits, Administrator Surveys
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