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Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2024
This demonstration brief provides teaching and learning stories from districts and schools implementing PBIS with an integrated systems focus and is organized across the following areas: (a) the context of the school/district, (b) the changes made in the systems, (c) the impact of the changes made in the systems, and (d) next steps to improve the…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Low Income Students, Middle School Students
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Gordon, Molly F.; Hart, Holly – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide concrete examples of what leadership behaviors and strategies look like in high-poverty urban schools in Chicago that are successful at improving student outcomes. The authors compared the strategies used by principals who were rated by their teachers on annual surveys as being strong instructional…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Poverty, Urban Schools
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Conrad, Jenni – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: For educators committed to unraveling racism and colonial bias in world history courses, challenges persist--particularly with Indigenous peoples and knowledges. Typical history curriculum, standards, and instructional tools misrepresent Indigenous peoples and knowledges in damaging and inaccurate ways. In cities, where…
Descriptors: White Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Teachers, High Schools
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Owings, William A.; Kaplan, Leslie S.; Whitfield, Andrew – Journal of Education Finance, 2022
In an era of globalized education policy, the problems of equitably funding public schools have universal relevance. Critical Resource Theory (CReT), a conceptual extension of Critical Theory (CT), uses data generated from quantitative analyses of public funding to inform policy and produce more equitable resources and outcomes for low-wealth…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Resources, Critical Theory, Educational Finance
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Stornaiuolo, Amy; Nichols, T. Philip; Vasudevan, Veena – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: Building on the growing interest in school-based "making" and "makerspaces," this paper aims to map the emergence of a literacy-oriented makerspace in a non-selective urban public high school. It examines how competing conceptions of literacy came to be negotiated as students and teachers shaped this new space for…
Descriptors: Literacy, Shared Resources and Services, High Schools, Design
Melissa Watson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Blended learning is defined by its combination of traditional face-to-face and online educational resources. It requires that students have some control over some element of time, place, path, or pace of their own learning. In their efforts to improve student outcomes, schools adopt instructional models such as blended learning in their efforts to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Program Implementation
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Sawyer, Holly; Taie, Soheyla – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This Data Point examines the school start time for public high schools in the United States by selected characteristics and state. It uses data from the School Questionnaire of the 2017-18 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), which is both a state and nationally representative sample survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals,…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Public Schools, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
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Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi; Wang, Jia; La Torre, Deborah – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2019
In the United States, how to provide a high-quality education to all students has been a focal discussion, especially in urban settings. One potential solution that has emerged to confront this issue involves urban teacher residency (UTR) programs that provide innovations concerning the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Education, Teacher Education Programs, Urban Schools
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Dreilinger, Danielle – Education Next, 2019
The name of the study said it all: "Sleepmore in Seattle: Later School Start times Are Associated with More Sleep and Better Performance in High School Students." In 2016-17, Seattle Public Schools pushed back high-school start times by 55 minutes, from 7:50 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. And just like that, students slept an average of 34 more…
Descriptors: School Schedules, High Schools, School Districts, Public Schools
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Allison Roda; Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj – Educational Policy, 2024
The widespread expansion of school choice policies has bolstered the consumer-education paradigm where parents compete for what they perceive to be a limited number of high quality schools. In this comparative case study, we examine advantaged White parents' perceptions of meritocracy in the context of a competitive elementary and high school…
Descriptors: Ethics, School Choice, Stress Variables, Educational Policy
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Weddle, Hayley; Yoshisato, Mariko; Hopkins, Megan – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2022
Purpose: Although schools across the United States are becoming increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse, many teachers remain underprepared to work with students classified as English learners (ELs), especially at the secondary level. Acknowledging the importance of developing systems of support for teachers of ELs, this paper examines…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Urban Schools
Eisenhart, Margaret A.; Weis, Lois – Harvard Education Press, 2022
"STEM Education Reform in Urban High Schools" gives a nuanced view of the obstacles marginalized students face in STEM education--and explores how schools can better support STEM learners. Reporting the results of a nine-year ethnographic study, the book chronicles the outcomes of various STEM education reforms in eight public high…
Descriptors: High Schools, STEM Education, Urban Schools, Educational Change
Halee Nicole Porter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Secondary school administrators are prone to experience stressors that stem from role conflict, accountability standards, student and parental relationships, staff development, and managerial issues. Through the research foundations of McGrath (Stress Cycle), Gmelch (Administrator Stress Cycle), Allison (Coping Preference Scale) and Maslach's…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Accountability, Well Being, Middle Schools
Watts, Tyler; Ibrahim, Deanna; Khader, Alaa; Li, Chen; Gandhi, Jill; Raver, Cybele – Educational Researcher, 2020
In the current article, we examine the long-run school selection patterns of children randomly assigned to the Chicago School Readiness Project, an early childhood educational (ECE) intervention that aimed to improve the quality of Head Start classrooms serving low-income communities. Analyses suggest that adolescents who participated in the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Intervention, School Readiness, Low Income Students
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Perry, Tonya B.; McMurtry, Teaira Catherine Lee – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a year-long writing intervention located in an urban high school in partnership with a university teacher education professor and the students. The goals were as follows: to increase student self-efficacy about writing overall; to increase the number of students who successfully…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Writing Instruction, Intervention
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