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Paiewonsky, Maria; Sajadi, Shahrzad – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2020
In this brief, the perspectives of special education administrators from Massachusetts and Indiana, who have been engaged in college-based transition services (CBTS), are shared. It summarizes the conversations they had during a fall 2019 Think College webinar and a follow-up discussion in summer 2020. Each administrator has had extensive…
Descriptors: Special Education, Administrator Attitudes, Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities
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Rohatgi, Kylee – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2021
As a nursing professor at Goshen College, a small liberal arts college in the Midwest, and a nurse practitioner working at an urgent care clinic, I have realized that there are lessons from the clinic's transformation into a novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center that can be applied to educating future nurses. As nurses, we must…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Nursing Students, Pandemics, COVID-19
Connors-Tadros, Lori; Grafwallner, Rolf; Sorge, Mandy – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
State early childhood administrators are planning to strategically invest the federal appropriations in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) to address disruptions in children's care and learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. State leaders must consider how this one-time funding can be used effectively while understanding the context around…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
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Lowery, Kendra; Geesa, Rachel Louise; McConnell, Kat – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2019
In this case study of a peer mentoring program developed for first-year education doctoral (Ed.D.) students, we sought to understand how participants' experiences in the program might yield understanding about the mentoring process. Study participants included 11 mentees and 4 mentors. Interview and focus group data were analyzed through the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Doctoral Programs, Peer Relationship, Graduate Students
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Taylor, Katie – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2020
In an ideal world, classrooms are not designed for and educators are not trained to teach the average student because the average student does not exist. Each student has unique measures, unique strengths, and weaknesses. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) allows teachers to easily accommodate every student; it blurs the lines of special…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Access to Education, Student Needs
Koedel, Cory; Gassmann, Gabriel E. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is in the midst of phasing in substantial increases in the contributions made by teachers, school districts, and the state of California. The phase-in period began in 2014-15. In the year prior, 2013-14, the total statutory contribution rate to CalSTRS from all parties was 18.3 percent of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, State Policy
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Held, Mary; Lawrence, Cindy – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2016
In this article, Mary Held and Cindy Lawrence describe the efforts that it took for Indiana to have its first statewide transition conference for deaf and hard of hearing students in the Spring of 2016. The conference goal is to become an effective vehicle to help professionals who work with deaf and hard of hearing students. Attendees will be…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Transitional Programs, Planning
Pies, Sarah J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine if the minimum number of observations stated in a district's teacher evaluation plan, observation characteristics described in a district's evaluation plan, and the characteristic of those evaluating teachers had an impact on whether a school would receive a bonus or penalty point for Indiana's A-F…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Observation, Evaluators, Professional Training
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McInerney, Daniel J. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2017
Tuning's progress in the discipline of history in the United States since 2009 illustrates the project's continuing capacity to develop "educational structures and programmes on the basis of diversity and autonomy", maintaining the initiative's original European Union commitment in a markedly different academic environment across the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Skill Development, Competence, Foreign Countries
Coughlin, Mary Ann – Council of Independent Colleges, 2014
Postsecondary institutions are under increasing scrutiny to provide evidence of student learning. Despite efforts to increase the number and frequency of assessments of student learning, many colleges and universities need help to make good use of assessment results for the improvement of teaching and learning. To address this need, in February…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Data, Information Utilization, College Outcomes Assessment
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Treff, Marjorie E.; Earnest, Steve – Adult Learning, 2016
This article describes the experiences of two graduate faculty members from Indiana University who facilitated two workshops sponsored by Ball State University at Highlander Research and Education Center, one in May of 2013, and another in May of 2014. We describe the history of Participation Training, the program we used to plan and conduct…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Graduate Study, Reflective Teaching, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Sprunger, Nikki S.; Harvey, Michael W.; Quick, Marilynn M. – Preventing School Failure, 2018
Legislation has mandated that secondary schools provide services for students with disabilities that prepare them for independent living, employment, and/or post-secondary education (IDEA, 2004). This study examined the perceptions of special education directors, assistant directors/program coordinators, and secondary special education teachers…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Disabilities, Transitional Programs
Grable, Charles R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Response to Intervention (RTI) is defined by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) as the practice of providing high-quality instruction and intervention matched to student needs and using learning rate over time and level of performance to make important educational decisions (2007). Both IDEA 2004 and the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Response to Intervention, Elementary School Students, Reading Tests
Bradley, Carol C. – Campus Law Enforcement Journal, 2012
It's Saturday, September 3, Notre Dame vs. South Florida--the first home game of the season--and nearing halftime. The only person feeling more pressure than Head Coach Brian Kelly is Mike Seamon, associate vice president for campus safety and director of game day operations. Bad weather is on the way, and he's about to make the call to evacuate…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Crisis Management, Planning, College Athletics
Indiana Department of Education, 2019
More than 112,000 Indiana students speak a language other than English at home, and there are over 275 different languages represented in Indiana schools. Of these, over 50,000 students have been formally identified as English learners due to limited proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing academic English. English learners make…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Student Needs
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