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Adrian Larbi-Cherif; Joshua L. Glazer; Ashley Ison – American Journal of Education, 2024
Purpose: Increasingly, school systems are forming improvement networks and using continuous improvement (CI) to realize more ambitious and equitable instruction. Yet networks reside in environments that place formidable demands on school leaders and house multiple, and sometimes contradictory, beliefs about educational goals and practices.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Educational Improvement, Principals
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Devon Woodlee; W. Kyle Ingle – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
Guided by normalization process theory, our qualitative case study explored classified staff members' perceptions of their role in the implementation of School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports in schools within a large urban US school district. Analysis reveals that classified staff members' gleaned knowledge of positive…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Positive Behavior Supports, Participative Decision Making
Marilyn J. Barriera-Manrique – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study was that many urban minority students in a Midwestern state begin school without the requisite emergent literacy skills. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore the instructional approaches used by early childhood education (ECE) teachers in an urban community in a selected Midwestern…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Urban Schools, Literacy Education, Reading Skills
Tawanna S. Robertson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mentoring is widely recognized as an effective approach to addressing educational needs in U.S. schools, emphasizing the importance of strong, long-term mentor-mentee relationships (Karaferye, 2018; Wood & Mayo-Wilson, 2012). These relationships can provide crucial support for youth facing social, emotional, and financial challenges (Kuperminc…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Mentors, Urban Schools
Vinatda Thao-Lo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The student population is rapidly becoming culturally diverse. Math teachers are struggling to provide instruction responsive to student's cultural and linguistic strengths, which is the problem addressed in this study. The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of math teachers who instruct…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Diversity, Mathematics Instruction
Lynne Graziano; Michelle Croft; Nick Lee; Julia deBettencourt; Andrew J. Rotherham – Bellwether, 2024
Over the last 30 years, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has become a rare model for urban school district improvement. That success stems, in part, from an expansive network of nonprofit organizations, advocates and grassroots community leaders, business leaders, and philanthropic funders that work together -- often in partnership with the district…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Governance, Boards of Education
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Salisbury, Jason D.; Sheth, Manali J.; Spikes, Daniel; Graeber, Amber – Urban Education, 2023
This research examines how a student voice experience--Social Justice Youth Summit--developed youth capacities as transformative school leaders. We engaged a youth development framework situated in school- and community-based youth leadership literature to analyze a diverse group of urban youth's experiences and sensemaking of the youth voice…
Descriptors: Student Development, Student Empowerment, Social Justice, Student Leadership
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Scallon, Amy Millett; Bristol, Travis J.; Esboldt, Joy – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2023
Teacher turnover is associated with administrative leadership; however, there is an empirical gap in the practices that principals enact that influence teacher turnover. This article uses in-depth case studies and interviews with 32 teachers across two high-turnover and two low turnover middle schools in one large urban public school district to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Faculty Mobility, Middle School Teachers
Rotberg, Iris C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
School leaders juggle the often-inconsistent goals of maintaining support of middle- and upper-income families for public education and, at the same time, implementing policies to strengthen equity for low-income students. Author Iris C. Rotberg describes how these tradeoffs play out in different communities, the role of concentrated poverty and…
Descriptors: Public Education, Equal Education, Low Income Students, Poverty
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Brown, Christopher P.; Ku, Da Hei; Englehardt, Joanna – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Policymakers' demands for improved academic achievement by all children and the standardization of instructional practices continue to alter the landscape of early childhood education. Many within the early childhood education community are examining how these changes impact stakeholders' conceptions of school readiness. Yet, little has been done…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Educational Change
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Price, Colin B.; Price-Mohr, Ruth – Education 3-13, 2023
This study investigates computer programming ('coding') activities of Primary School Children; we ask if there is evidence of gender differences in their coding activities. The research took place in an English urban school with around 180 children on role, mostly from a middle-class social background. The study involved a class of 17 boys and 15…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Elementary School Students, Programming, Urban Schools
Ellenita T. Blanton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate how general and special educators' attitudes, efficacy, and collaboration promote co-teaching relationships that benefit exceptional students in urban middle schools. The impacts of co-teaching on the attitudes, efficacy, and collaboration of secondary teachers were explored. A…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Cooperating Teachers, Teacher Collaboration
Monte L. Tapplar Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research on building principal leadership behaviors has resulted in increased attention regarding leadership theories that principals may consider to maximize school performance. Relevant findings can inform both organizational and educational leadership behaviors. The current study provides new perspectives on leadership implications in urban…
Descriptors: Administrators, Leadership Styles, Leadership Qualities, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Kristen Napolitano; Amanda M. Gunning; Meghan E. Marrero; Elena Nitecki – Global Education Review, 2023
Growing emphasis on elementary STEM education has pushed elementary teachers to face curriculum changes that focus on standards with which they are largely unfamiliar (Smith, 2020; Trygstad et al., 2013). As a result, elementary students are not always exposed to STEM subjects or integration and miss out on opportunities to access and enjoy the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, STEM Education, Teacher Leadership, Curriculum Development
Hutchinson, Ryeneshia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Survey data from students in Grades 9-12 at L High School (a pseudonym) in an urban district in the southeastern United States suggested that students lack social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies. Efforts to address SEL at the study site have been ineffective. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore secondary teachers'…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, High School Teachers, Urban Schools, Teacher Attitudes
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