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Little, Camille – ProQuest LLC, 2017
State standardized tests results indicated that between 2012 and 2016, fewer African American students at a rural, Title I elementary school met state standards in reading compared with other racial/ethnic groups of students. A gap in practice existed because the school and district had not conducted studies to understand teacher knowledge and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
Jones, Aslean Madison – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The use of blended learning is fast becoming a practice used in public schools to address 21st century learning challenges. However, despite the growing use of instructional delivery models that blend online learning platforms with traditional instruction in brick and mortar classrooms, little is known about teachers' experiences with the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Schools, Blended Learning, Secondary School Teachers
Magee-Dorsey, Ebonee E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Exploring the current educational setting consist of persistent and high-stakes testing and accountability, leaving administrators and professional school counselors tenaciously searching for new and efficient methods to enhance students' behavior and academic performance. In an attempt to obtain growth from their students, several schools and…
Descriptors: Discipline, Cheating, Academic Achievement, Rural Schools
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Kim, Sujin; Dorner, Lisa M. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Framed by theories and methods from critical discourse analysis and social semiotics, this comparative case study of six Missouri school systems asked: How do school districts represent and address their changing communities? Discourses of equity, language, identity, and demographic change were examined across school system websites, mission…
Descriptors: School Districts, Community Involvement, Student Attitudes, Case Studies
Elizondo, Jodi L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Schools exist for the sole purpose of academic achievement, and within every school exists a unique culture that every student navigates and absorbs. It is reasonable to assume a student's environment and the expectations set forth in that environment may have an effect on their academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, School Culture, Rural Schools
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McHenry-Sorber, Erin; Schafft, Kai A. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Conflict, Rural Schools, Inclusion
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Scott, Caitlin; McMurrer, Jennifer – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
This article summarizes findings and lessons learned about implementing school improvement grant (SIG) initiatives in rural areas of the United States. The study examines state-level survey data based on the proportion of rural schools receiving SIG funds in the fall of 2010 in each state. In addition, the authors summarize related findings from…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement, Grants
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Cherkowski, Sabre; Schnellert, Leyton – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2017
The purpose of this case study was to examine how teachers experienced professional development as collaborative inquiry, and how their experiences contributed to their development as teacher leaders. Three overarching themes were identified through iterative qualitative analysis of multiple data sources including interviews, observations,…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Rural Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Case Studies
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Haji, Shaibou Abdoulai; Moluayonge, Gracemary Eloheneke; Park, Innwoo – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) offers innovative tools for restructuring teaching and learning processes in preparing students for the 21st Century skills. However, there is no sufficient and reliable data concerning how the use of ICT fit in different school cultures in Cameroon, and how teachers with varying pedagogical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Secondary School Teachers
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Hockett, Eloise – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2018
This qualitative case study examined the cultural learning insights of four educators during and after an immersion experience in Kenya. During this experience the participants delivered professional development sessions to teachers in two rural Kenyan schools, and stayed with Kenyan families. Mezirow's transformational learning theory,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Undergraduate Students
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Gennrich, Toni – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
In a context where Foundation Phase literacy teachers' personal literacy often involves operational and technicist practices rather than creative, this paper argues that it is by exposing teachers to experiences of working with different genres of text for an extended time, in different fields, that teachers are able to imagine the possibilities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Allen, Nancy; McDermott, Peter – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2018
The purpose of the present study was threefold: (a) What was the state of classroom teaching in Sierra Leone's rural schools? (b) What did school leaders report to be the most immediate needs for improving schools in rural Sierra Leone? (c) What contextual features affected school improvement in rural Sierra Leone? We employed a case study method…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Improvement, Case Studies, Mentors
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Hughes, Joan E.; Read, Michelle F. – Middle Grades Review, 2018
This research examined student perspectives on their in-school, subject specific, technology use in four U.S. public schools. Considering students' perspectives may provide a significant reframing of adult-created rhetoric of the utopian power of digital technologies for changing teaching and learning. A survey and focus group interviews were…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Technology Integration, Comparative Analysis, Middle Schools
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Langdon, Frances J. – Teacher Development, 2017
While studies have shown that mentoring is central to new teacher development, few investigations have examined what mentors learn about themselves as mentors. The purpose of the study was to illuminate mentor learning. The article reports on two case studies that investigated the development of mentoring expertise over a two-year period. During…
Descriptors: Mentors, Faculty Development, Action Research, Case Studies
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Mohan, Parmeshwar Prasad; Lingam, Govinda Ishwar; Chand, Deepa Dewali – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This research examined teachers' perceptions of the impact of Professional Development (PD) programmes on learning and teaching in two Fijian secondary schools. Through a qualitative research design, data were gathered using document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 30 teachers from the two case study schools. The major findings to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers, Case Studies, Documentation
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