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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Achieving schools"”.
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School Principal's Leadership Style and Teacher's Self-Efficacy in High and Low Achieving Schools in Chikankata, Zambia
… may be accounted for by leadership styles. High-achieving schools were more likely to have high transformational leadership styles and lower transactional leadership styles, suggesting that schools where principals use higher levels of transformational leadership and lower levels of transactional …
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The Effects Of An Education Recovery Team On Teacher Professional Practices, Collective Teacher Efficacy And Student Achievement In Persistently Low Achieving Schools
… work of education recovery teams in turnaround schools in eastern Kentucky. Data used for this analysis were collected from the Kentucky Department of Education. Data from the identified persistently low achieving schools was compared to pre and post-test over one school year to determine the …
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The difference between secondary school principals' servant leadership in lower achieving and higher achieving secondary schools
… school principals' servant leadership in lower achieving and higher achieving schools and student achievement as determined by the end of course exams in Algebra I, Biology, and English II. Data on servant leadership was collected from 70 teachers from five higher achieving schools and five …
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Leadership that Fosters a Culture of High Achievement of African American Students
… leadership behaviors in the traditional theme schools and their relationship to the culture of high student achievement of African American students. The sample included teachers and principals working in five elementary traditional theme schools with predominately African American populations …
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Principals' Perception of Social Emotional Learning in High Achieving High Schools
… pandemic caused unanticipated closures in schools throughout the country forcing many students to an unfamiliar online environment. In the months that followed, anxiety and loneliness rose dramatically, requiring staff to re-think how to best support the social emotional needs of students. …
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The influence of schooling conditions and teaching practices on curriculum implementation for Grade 4 reading literacy development
… literacy teaching in South African primary schools. In South Africa there is a paucity of research outlining schooling conditions and teachers’ reading literacy teaching practices especially in the Intermediate Phase. The aim of this mixed methods study was to explore schooling conditions …
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Investigating the connection of the student-to-administrator ratio and administrative roles in relation to student achievement in Indiana public high schools
… principals of high and low performing high schools in regard to duties kept versus duties delegated. While the results of this study did not find one overall recommendation for a student-to-administrator ratio, it did determine that there are certain duties principals of high achieving …
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PERCEPTIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ABOUT THEIR IMPACT ON STUDENT SUCESS
… charged with many responsibilities within their schools and school district. Chief among these responsibilities is assuring that students are learning the curriculum, and achieving their academic potential. The challenge, then, is to identify how principals impact student learning, and then help …
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An investigation into how Grade 12 students understand and solve Geometric problems
… problems. The study was conducted at four low achieving schools in mathematics (based on student performance in the South African Senior Certificate Examination). It involved 267 students across the schools. The students' level of understanding was assessed through the use of two tests. These …
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Designing Effective Professional Development for Teaching Students in Poverty: Impact on Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Practice
… While this gap remains, high-poverty, high-achieving schools do exist. The purpose of this study was to discern the impact of practitioner-designed professional development (PD) on teacher beliefs about students from poverty. This study focused on the creation and implementation of PD …
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Identifying the Competencies Required to be a Highly Effective Leader in a Low-Performing School
… it can directly affect the 25% lowest achieving schools in the district, and ultimately the students in those schools. The program identified the common leadership competencies that administrators need in order to successfully lead a low-performing school through a transition to be a …
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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Professional Learning Communities
… increase student achievement, reform failing schools, and sustain high achieving schools. Because there is little in the literature which examines teachers’ perceptions of the PLC concept and the work accomplished in the PLC process, the problem studied here was teachers’ perceptions of their …
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An Investigation of Reading Instruction in Northeast Tennessee.
… perceived as successful practices in four high achieving schools within the parameters of Northeast Tennessee. This study was accomplished through a protocol of open-ended interviews with 15 participants comprised of 4 school principals, 4 primary reading teachers, 4 intermediate reading …
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Conceptual and Procedural Instruction: Mathematical Teaching Approaches And Strategies In An Urban Middle School
… in mathematics in under resourced urban middle schools. The significance of this study is to develop math instructional skills in urban schools that can help bridge the achievement gap between urban underperforming schools and suburban achieving schools. Urban mathematics educators are …
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Personality types and leadership styles of principals in accredited and unaccredited elementary schools
… differed among elementary school principals in schools that were accredited by the State of Michigan and those that were nonaccredited. Accreditation from the State of Michigan indicated that students have attained a level of mastery, while nonaccreditation meant the students were not performing …
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Influence of school senior leaders on teacher professional development: a comparative case study of four schools in Cape Town
… teacher professional development in four public schools in similar socio-economic contexts, but with different levels of learner achievement, within the greater Cape Town area. Towards this end, the thesis relates professional development practices to the relevant policy - the Integrated …
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Making the grade : behaviors of elementary principals leading high poverty "A" rated schools
… in complex environments in the 21st century. Schools serving great proportions of students in poverty have challenges including academic, less formal parental support, meeting emotional, physical, and basic needs, all the while building school performance. The purpose of this study was to …
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Principal and Teacher Flow of Influence in High-Achieving, High Poverty Schools
… the flow of influence in three highpoverty, high-achieving elementary schools to see in what ways social influence was exchanged between principals and teachers and how might this exchange increase instructional capacity. The two central research questions were: 1. In what ways do principals and …
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The use and development of geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial modelling for educational planning
… middle classes are served by high achieving schools and less advantaged pupils are left to fill inner city 'sink' schools which cannot provide them with the same educational chances due to lower resource levels. This thesis presents a feasibility study of a variety of techniques …
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More Power to You: Parental Experiences with the Public School Choice Option Provided by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
… especially when children attended low achieving schools. One way parents could exercise their newfound power to improve their children's educational experience was to use the federal policy's public school choice option to enroll them into higher performing schools which met or exceeded …
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