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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"District Administrators"”.
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District Administrator Perceptions Of Response To Intervention Implementation In K-12 Underperforming Public Schools In Connecticut
… the perceptions of Connecticut public school district administrators working at K-12 underperforming schools implementing response to intervention (RTI). Little was known about district administrators working in Connecticut K-12 underperforming schools’ perceptions of RTI implementation. Data …
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An Evaluation of a Secondary Student Advisement Program
… 205 students, 40 parents, and 17 advisors. Two district administrators, three school administrators, and two counselors were interviewed. In addition, focus group discussions were held with a purposeful sample of students, recent graduates, parents, and faculty advisors. As a final step, the …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a First Year Mentoring Program in a Suburban Elementary School District: A Program Evaluation
… Board of Education (ISBE) requires every school district in Illinois to have a mentoring program. The purpose of this program evaluation was to gauge the effectiveness of the mentoring program for first-year teachers in Northwest Suburban School District A. This document assesses the …
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Implications of Court -Ordered Desegregation for Principals in Two Elementary Schools
… a necessary fix on school improvement. School districts undergoing rapid change are notorious for using, abusing and losing administrators. The study focused on the ability of district administrators to plan, implement and adjust in an ever changing environment. Principals in the study …
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Assessing School-Based Factors That Facilitate Teacher Professional Growth
… the efforts of building principals or district administrators in implementing growth activities for a tenured staff of teachers have often not been effective. Yet research indicates that teacher professional growth seems to occur within a school where the presence of certain factors has …
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Current Parent Involvement Practices in Georgia Title I Schools as Reported by Title I District-Level School Administrators
… Georgia Title I schools as reported by Title I district-level school administrators are described in this quantitative study. Data gathered describe strategies, means of communication, barriers, personnel, and staff development impacting parent involvement. The researcher found that, although …
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Authentic parent engagement : a case study of moving from discourse to authentic praxis in a Midwestern school district
… and Latino parents in a Midwestern school district during a major restructuring process. The qualitative case study sought to enrich research in the area of authentic engagement of minority parents as defined by their perceptions, needs and desires. Key components of Anderson's (1998) …
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An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Hiring Practices Within High Poverty, Urban Districts
… the procedures and challenges that urban districts face when trying to appropriately staff classrooms with qualified teachers. It explores the structures that urban districts use to evaluate one’s candidacy for the position as well as additional approaches that have made others successful. …
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The Use of Computer-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Teaching: An Ethnographically - Oriented Study (Naturalistic, Evaluation, Policy, Comparative, Ethnology)
… study examines the relationship between state, district, and school policies on computer-based instruction and the actual teaching practices of foreign language instructors. Four language teachers from two large high schools in the suburbs of Chicago agreed to participate in the study. By …
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A Suburban Case of Community Mobilization for Music Education: Lessons for Arts Education in a Cash-Strapped World
… efforts among the adult contributors (school district administrators, parent-run board members, music teachers, and parents) influenced the organization and management of the program. While music programs continue to face elimination from a school’s curriculum, the findings revealed that as a …
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Principals’ Perceptions Of Teacher-Student Interactions In Diversifying Suburban Middle Schools
… as well as advice to aspiring principals and district administrators. This study concludes with recommendations to improve school settings that are diversifying.</p>
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A Descriptive Study of PLATO As A Proposition For Regular Education Classrooms
… quantitative methodologies will be explored. Two district administrators, instrumental in acquiring PLATO for a southeast Texas district, will be interviewed; and, culminating data will be shared in the forms of cross tabulations, frequency tables, and graphs using archival data furnished by the …
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Teacher Acceptability of Curriculum Based Measurement as a Universal Screener in Reading
… those who were required to do so by school and district administrators.
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PERCEPTIONS OF EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES: A CROSS-CASE ANALYSIS OF FOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS
… from two middle schools within the same school district were selected to participate in the study. The teachers were selected based on their effectiveness identified by their supervisor. The teachers were interviewed about their own perceptions as to what effective pedagogical practices are, …
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Impact of Students' Perception of Safety on Academic Success
… educational leaders, at all levels of the school district--from district administrators, to building administrators, to teachers and other staff in a school--must be purposeful and intentional in their actions and plans. This culture is a prerequisite to the learning process. If the environment is …
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A Qualitative Study of the Implementation of Texas’s Ban on Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade Suspensions
… explore the implementation of HB 674 in school districts around the Houston area. The study explains how HB 674 made its way into practice through interviews and it made sense of what teachers and administrators have to say about it through a qualitative interview study. Methods: This study is a …
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Personalized Professional Learning for Elementary Bilingual Educators: A Policy Advocacy Document
… and (2) increase bilingual teacher retention. District 32’s bilingual program recently shifted from a Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) model to a Developmental Bilingual Education (DBE) model, which emphasized biliteracy. As a small suburban school district with a rapidly rising Hispanic …
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Effective principal leadership practices for dual language strand programming: Bridging leadership for learning and critical bilingual leadership
… study has recommendations for building-level administrators as well as school district administrators. Recommendations are based on a new theoretical framework, Critical Bilingual Leadership for Learning, which is a combination of Leadership for Learning and Critical Bilingual Leadership.
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The Relationship between Leadership Styles and Labour Disputes in British Columbia's Public Schools
… relationships between teachers' associations and district administrators in the British Columbia public school system have been commonplace, frequently resulting in formal grievances and arbitration. Since dealing with these issues imposes enormous costs on both teachers' unions and school boards, …
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