In this autoethnographic study, the long-term effects of students who have been exposed to a Choice Based Art Education approach, also known as CBAE, at some point in their kindergarten through college academic career were investigated. The effects CBAE has had on teachers during their first year of teaching were also investigated. The…

This report summarizes implementation of the goals and some of the programs managed by the Professional Learning (PL) Department in the 2020-2021 academic year. The PL Department offers a comprehensive and sustainable approach to improving staff's effectiveness by ensuring that a variety of continuous and innovative PL opportunities, aligned to…

Over the past decade many social studies educators have called for teachers to engage their students in historical interpretation. This case study examined the beliefs and practices related to engaging students in historical interpretation of four secondary social studies teachers from their teacher preparation through their first year in the…

This report describes findings from the principal focus group conducted the first year of the AISD REACH program. [For Report 2, see ED628033.]

The problems of first year teachers are well researched in many developed countries. In less developed nations however they have been researched rather less thoroughly. Papua New Guinea is typical in this respect, for there has been no full-scale survey of beginning secondary school teachers. This paper was the first in a series of papers…