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Retaining principals in high poverty public schools
The turnover of school principals in high-poverty schools is having a profound impact on student achievement. Principal turnover influences teacher turnover, sustainability of school improvement efforts, and generates increased financial costs to the district. Research cites the demands of the job, …
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Sustained Employment of Teachers in High Poverty Schools
… from the lived experiences of teachers in high poverty schools the reasons they remained in these schools. A qualitative method was used to conduct the study, which involved interviews with eight teachers (4 elementary, 2 middle and 2 high), one principal and the Superintendent who …
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Mobility and Student Achievement in High Poverty Schools
<p>Student mobility is an issue for high poverty schools in the shadow of increased rigor and accountability for student performance. Whereas mobility is not a sole cause for poor achievement, it is a contributing factor for students in poverty who are already considered to be at risk of low …
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Examining Leadership Styles in Ten High Poverty Elementary Schools
… is perceived at 10 elementary schools with a high poverty student population.</p><p>The research questions of this study are as follows:</p><p>1. What is the perception of principals and select teachers of the leadership style of five principals at low SES area elementary schools (kindergarten …
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Principal Instructional Leadership in Ga High Poverty Elementary Schools
… leadership practices in Georgia Reward Highest Performing and Georgia Reward Highest Progress elementary schools. As such, this causal-comparative study identified the frequency of principal instructional leadership practices and attempted to determine if these practices can be related …
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Faculty Perceptions of a High-poverty, High-Performing School
… case study investigated faculty perceptions of a high-poverty, high-performing school in a Midwestern town in Indiana. The study sought to identify practices and organizational structures that faculty perceives contributed to achieving a pass rate of 85% on the Math and 81% on the English sections …
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Case studies of two high-poverty high-performing schools
… and leadership and the academic achievement of high-poverty and high-performing schools. However, this theoretical construct required further investigation to explore disciplines for creating an optimum learning organization and, in turn, its impact on student achievement. The purpose of this …
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Leadership Characteristics In South Carolina High-Poverty, Award-Winning Schools
… the direct influence that principals of high-poverty schools have on student achievement based on Effective Schools Research. This research attempted to determine the impact of the following characteristics in the selected schools: alignment of instruction and assessment, supervision of …
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Leadership Characteristics of Principals with Successful High Poverty Hispanic Students
… also found that the principal's leadership in high poverty schools make a difference in teaching and learning. Using a mixed method descriptive research design, the researcher studied leadership characteristics of four Georgia elementary school principals from one metropolitan school district. …
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Outside the School Day Programs in High Poverty Elementary Schools
<p>In an effort to locate successful outside the school time programs, this study identified thirty-two top performing schools in fifth-grade and sixth-grade math and English-language arts in California. These schools were similar demographically to the researcher’s school, Burns Valley Elementary …
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Teacher Resilience in High Poverty Elementary Schools of Southwest Virginia
… The negative factors associated with teaching in high poverty elementary public schools present challenges that are driving away teachers in their beginning years as well as those with the most experience. Currently, resilience studies have taken on a profession oriented lens. Teacher resilience …
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Making mathematics matter: professional development improving outcomes in high-poverty environments
… " carried out in two low – performing, high – poverty districts. Two of the districts served as treatment districts and ALL teachers (general education, special education, ELL) who taught mathematics to students in grades 4-8 participated in a four-year PM<sup>3</sup> mathematical …
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The resilience capacity of physical education teachers in high-poverty schools
… on the educational system—especially in high-poverty schools, providing resources to build resilience in teachers is critical to their professional success and development. Identifying facilitators and barriers to physical education teacher resiliency are key components for informing the …
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Instructional Strategies for Academic Success in High Poverty, High Performing Schools
… meet their unique needs. Students living in poverty enter school with a distinctive set of needs and therefore require instructional practices that meet these needs. The researcher in this study strived to identify instructional practices that were being used in high and low performing Title …
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Principal and Teacher Flow of Influence in High-Achieving, High Poverty Schools
… to investigate 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 …
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Factors that Reduce the Dropout Rate in High Poverty Schools in Georgia
… six schools with similar demographics with high, average, and low dropout rates. This study sought to find out what are the factors that can reduce the dropout rate in high poverty schools in the state of Georgia. This study sought to find out additional questions that included: Why is it …
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Making the grade : behaviors of elementary principals leading high poverty "A" rated schools
… 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 investigate the behaviors of principals in K-5 …
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Neighborhood and school contextual factors: longitudinal outcomes in a high-poverty adolescent population
… demographic variables as covariates. But since poverty can be structurally portrayed in various ways, neighborhood-level population density was included as a predictor variable. The present study examined the effects of neighborhood and school context on adolescent achievement, attendance, and …
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An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Hiring Practices Within High Poverty, Urban Districts
<p>This dissertation project examines 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 …
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