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Gandha, Tysza; Baxter, Andy – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2016
This report offers state leaders key areas for action to continue progress in implementing evaluation systems, even as federal policies on teacher evaluation relax state requirements. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) offers its current best thinking for how state agencies can make the smartest use of funds, time and partners to refine…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Action, Teacher Effectiveness, State Agencies
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Marshall, Margaret J.; Duffy, Ashlee Mills; Powell, Stephen; Bartlett, Lesley Erin – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2017
An ePortfolio Assessment Institute (AI) structured as a faculty development opportunity was undertaken to increase faculty confidence in teaching and assessing ePortfolios and to collect reliable data about student performance on four learning outcomes associated with an institutionwide ePortfolio initiative. Faculty raters participated in the…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolio Assessment, Faculty Development, Data Collection
Gassenheimer, Cathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Alabama Best Practices Center (ABPC) was formed to help educators spread innovation and scale up successful teaching and learning practices. ABPC is the professional development arm of A+ Education Partnership, a statewide business/community/education nonprofit founded in 1991 to advocate for excellent public schools. Since 1999, ABPC has…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Innovation, Academic Standards, Relationship
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Mandel, David R. – 2000
This report examines the design and operation of efforts by several states that are implementing initiatives to improve low performing schools, drawing out lessons that could be applied in Tennessee. It focuses on why initiatives in Kentucky and North Carolina deserve attention; core ideas shaping Kentucky's and North Carolina's programs; what…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Conkle, M. Terry – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1997
Surveys of 265 elementary and secondary physical education teachers from Alabama assessed their inservice program needs with a focus on professional development needs and preferred inservice program arrangements or settings. Results indicated that physical educators wanted inservice program content to meet their unique needs but that many local…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
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Norton, John – Journal of Staff Development, 2001
The Alabama Reading Initiative is a public-private consortium promoting a research-based approach to literacy instruction. Its goal is 100-percent literacy. Use of the approach at one middle school involved development-, practice-, and demonstration-oriented professional development and deep faculty collaboration. The effort resulted in a dramatic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Literature, Excellence in Education, Faculty Development
Emerick, Scott; Hirsch, Eric; Berry, Barnett – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
This brief will highlight three major findings from Southeast Center for Teaching Quality (SECTQ's) teacher surveys and interviews with more than 160 educators entitled "Unfulfilled Promise: Ensuring High Quality Teachers for Our Nation's Students". It will also profile two districts' approaches to meeting the requirements of NCLB and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Surveys, Educational Quality, Interviews