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Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2014
The following profiles address how the state departments of education are helping educators prepare for and implement the Common Core and aligned assessments through professional learning. The major professional development efforts around the Common Core were examined in order to understand the overall efforts of each state. An exhaustive list of…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, State Policy
Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
The following profiles address how the state departments of education are helping educators prepare for and implement their states' new college- and career-readiness standards and aligned assessments, through professional learning. SREB researchers examined each state's major professional development efforts around its new standards in order to…
Descriptors: State Standards, State Policy, State Programs, Career Readiness
Chad D. Ellis – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is comprised of three separate yet related papers focused on Connecticut's new beginning teacher induction program: the Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) program. The study uses data collected from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with twenty two participants including program leaders at the Connecticut State Department…
Descriptors: School Districts, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Luna, Tom; Rush, Mike; Gramer, Rod; Stewart, Roger – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
To remain internationally competitive, states needed clearer, higher, and comparable K-12 learning standards aligned with college and career expectations, and as ambitious as those of the countries that lead the world in education. Idaho's old academic standards were not preparing students for postsecondary education, which contributed to the…
Descriptors: State Standards, State Policy, State Programs, Academic Achievement
New Jersey Department of Education, 2012
New Jersey is preparing to implement a statewide educator evaluation system in the 2013-14 school year. As part of this process, an Evaluation Pilot Advisory Committee (EPAC) was convened in September 2011. The EPAC consisted of 22 appointed members from various stakeholder groups. Its charge was to make recommendations to the New Jersey…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Programs, Advisory Committees, State Departments of Education
Johnson, Evelyn S.; Semmelroth, Carrie; Mellard, Daryl F.; Hopper, Gina – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2012
The Idaho State Department of Education (SDE) recently revised its SLD identification policy to include a requirement to document a student's response to intervention coupled with a comprehensive evaluation. To implement this policy, the SDE is using multiple implementation drivers. In this article, we describe how and why the new policy was…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Response to Intervention, State Programs, Evaluation
Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
The following profiles address decisions and actions that state education policy-makers--in the state departments of education, unless otherwise noted--are taking to foster successful statewide implementation of their states' new college- and career-readiness standards and aligned assessments. These profiles provide a descriptive overview of each…
Descriptors: State Standards, Profiles, State Policy, College Readiness
Worley, Kena Lashel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this study, the perceptions of educational leaders of incentive pay programs, including Missouri's Career Ladder Program were examined. A mixed-methods design provided a process by which student achievement, professional development, and the retention of high quality and effective teachers were viewed through the lens of Marzano's (2003)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Superintendents, Department Heads, Boards of Education
Gottfried, Michael A.; Ikemoto, Gina S.; Orr, Nate; Lemke, Cheryl – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
This report documents how four state education agencies are supporting local data-driven decisionmaking through their policies, practices, and programs for creating data systems, improving data access and use, and building district and school capacity to use data. Specifically, this report, responding to District of Columbia Office of State…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Gottfried, Michael A.; Ikemoto, Gina S.; Orr, Nate; Lemke, Cheryl – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
This report documents how four state education agencies are supporting local data-driven decisionmaking through their policies, practices, and programs for creating data systems, improving data access and use, and building district and school capacity to use data. Responding to District of Columbia Office of State Superintendent of Education and…
Descriptors: State Programs, State Departments of Education, Decision Making, Data
Reform Support Network, 2013
States are in various stages of reforming how they evaluate their educators, all striving for a new system that can assess a range of abilities and practices over long periods of time and capture the full nature of an educator's performance. The strongest systems look at teaching in a more comprehensive way than evaluations have done in the past,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, State Policy, Educational Policy
National Academies Press, 2011
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the allocation of federal funds for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Limited English Speaking
Chase, Richard; Egbert, Andi; Valorose, Jennifer – Wilder Research, 2011
The Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) in Minnesota makes recommendations to the Governor and Legislature, and is responsible for fulfilling the duties required by federal and state statutes. The Council was created in 2008 by the Governor's Executive Order 08-14. The ECAC consists of 18 members, including the State Director of the Head Start…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Human Services, School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2011
About 80,000 children enter kindergarten in Washington each year, and many lack basic language and behavioral skills--such as knowing letters and colors, following directions, getting along with others, and exhibiting impulse-control. In 2006, based on the recommendation of the Washington Learns Commission, Governor Christine Gregoire created the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Emergent Literacy, Partnerships in Education, Educational Resources
Brown, Cynthia G.; Hess, Frederick M.; Lautzenheiser, Daniel K.; Owen, Isabel – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2011
Today, state education agencies (SEAs) and their leaders face unprecedented demands. What was once a low-profile job of managing federal aid, providing curricular guidance, and ensuring compliance with various legal obligations is now a far more visible and politically fraught task. The new roles required of state education agencies due to the No…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, State Programs, Federal Legislation, Leadership Effectiveness