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Strunk, Katharine O.; Weinstein, Tracey; Makkonen, Reino; Furedi, Drew – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The authors of this article are engaged in an ongoing pilot implementation and study of the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Educator Growth and Development Cycle, known as EGDC. LAUSD implemented the EGDC pilot in the 2011-12 school year, focusing on a small subset of volunteering school administrators and teachers. The district's…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, School Districts, Professional Development
Meeting the Challenge of School Turnaround: Lessons from the Intersection of Research and Practice
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Salmonowicz, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
"Turnaround" has become the new buzzword in education. From states and districts paying for principals to be trained as turnaround specialists to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's call to turn around the country's 5,000 lowest-performing schools, the concept of rapid, large-scale reform in individual schools--not just incremental…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Making Connections between Research and Practice
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Porter, Andrew; McMaken, Jennifer – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Strengthening connections between research and practice is an important goal in education. Making the connection has both a supply side and a demand side but the demand is often ignored in education. The authors offer six hypotheses about why this situation occurs.
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Supply and Demand, Educational Change
Profile of a High School: An Introduction
Schwartz, Robert B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, High Schools, Management Teams