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Myende, Phumlani Erasmus; Samuel, Michael Anthony; Pillay, Ansurie – South African Journal of Education, 2018
Research studies on financial management in South African public schools expands recurrent literature, most of which have largely pathologised school leadership and management, and rural schools in particular. This article instead draws from a qualitative case study of success, which examined how five novice principals in a rural setting went…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Public Schools, Case Studies
Hite-Pope, Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this paper was to examine K-12 teachers' classroom experiences with standardized testing in rural New Mexico schools. Standardized tests have significantly changed the landscape of education with the use of students' test scores as a determining factor for advancement or failure for teachers (Simpson, Lacava, & Graner, 2013).…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Rural Areas, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Howell, Emily; Hunt-Barron, Sarah; Kaminski, Rebecca; Sanders, Rachel – Professional Development in Education, 2018
This multiple-case study design with embedded units of analysis examined a two-year professional development (PD) program in which two rural districts received at least 90 hours of PD. This PD was provided through an Investing in Innovation (i3) grant that the United States Department of Education awarded to the National Writing Project. Two of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Faculty Development, Rural Schools
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Lee, Soon Chun; Nugent, Gwen; Kunz, Gina M.; Houston, James; DeChenne-Peters, SueEllen – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2018
One major implication of the Next Generation Science Standards is the need to integrate inquiry and practice and incorporate engineering into science education. To support teachers' change efforts in a time of heightened science, technology, engineering, and mathematics standards for all students, effective professional development (PD) is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Value Added Models, Distance Education, Coaching (Performance)
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Pennefather, Jane – Perspectives in Education, 2016
This article focuses on a theoretical model that I am developing in order to understand student teacher learning in a rural context and the enabling conditions that can support this learning. The question of whether a supervised teaching practice in a rural context can contribute to the development of student teacher professional learning and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods
Valdez, Ricardo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to describe the relationships between first-generation college students and faculty through their own experiences at this rural private four-year institution. It is well documented that positive outcomes are linked with faculty-student interaction which include grade point average (Anaya and Cole…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, First Generation College Students, College Faculty
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Segrott, Jeremy; Holliday, Jo; Murphy, Simon; Macdonald, Sarah; Roberts, Joan; Moore, Laurence; Phillips, Ceri – Health Education, 2017
Purpose: The teaching of cooking is an important aspect of school-based efforts to promote healthy diets among children, and is frequently done by external agencies. Within a limited evidence base relating to cooking interventions in schools, there are important questions about how interventions are integrated within school settings. The purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooking Instruction, Intervention, Mobile Classrooms
Elom, Roslynn Darnell – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Integrated learning systems (ILS) are effective ways to increase academic achievement for students, including those with disabilities. However, many teachers do not fully or properly implement this type of educational technology in their classroom teaching. The purpose of this qualitative bounded case study was to examine the perceptions of high…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, Qualitative Research
St. Cyr, Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research was conducted as a qualitative comparative case study of two Northern New England school districts that were in the process of responding to declining enrollments. The purpose of the study was to explore decision-making through the lens of declining enrollments. An award winning rural school in an affluent town with high performing…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, School Districts
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Axelrod, Ysaaca; Cole, Mikel W. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
In this paper, we utilize the theory of "translanguaging" to make sense of the biliterate activities of young emergent bilinguals in a before-school program for Latinx students at an elementary school. Our findings show that even early writers are able to draw from their full linguistic repertoire, utilizing orthographic and syntactic…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Hispanic American Students
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Wettlaufer, Jacqueline R. A.; Sider, Steve R. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2019
In this case, a high school vice-principal encounters tension and anger when she rewrites a staff member's report card comments without his knowledge. The case narrative examines the conflict that arises when, under time constraints and pressures to produce student reports, the vice-principal acts on a decision she believes is ethically correct…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Instructional Leadership, Educational Improvement, Assistant Principals
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Lee, Stacey J.; Hawkins, Margaret R. – Global Education Review, 2015
The number of immigrant English learners attending schools in new destinations across the US is rapidly increasing. We draw on the sociological scholarship on "contexts of reception" and scholarship on sociocultural approaches to policy to examine the educational contexts faced by immigrant English learners in new destination communities…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Immigrants, Rural Schools, Educational Environment
Jorgensen, Robyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
This paper describes the lesson practices at one very remote school that has been highly successful in numeracy. Drawing on a significant body of diverse research that promotes quality teaching and learning, this case study describes the features of the practice that have been implemented across the school. Teachers' voices provide both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Rural Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
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Albritton, Shelly; Huffman, Stephanie; McClellan, Rhonda – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2017
This multisite case study explores how rural principals in high poverty schools in a Southern state that had identified themselves as social justice leaders perceived student diversity, specifically LGBTQ students, and how they sustained a socially-just school climate for all students. Using a qualitative approach lent itself to understanding the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High Schools, Principals, Social Justice
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Kerr, Katie – Research Papers in Education, 2017
This multiple case study was used to explore students' perceptions of what constitutes verbal feedback and what impacts their receipt and use of feedback. Interpretivist research was undertaken in a rural mixed secondary school in Cornwall, UK involving four year nine students (aged 13-14 years) from two separate classes over eleven weeks.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Verbal Communication, Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction
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