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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Low Performing Schools"”.
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The Impact Of Professional Development Of Effective Teachers In Low Performing Schools
… factor to the success or lack of success in low-performing schools. Specific student-focused professional development can be used to increase academic achievement, school culture, and the level of effective teaching. A lack of attention to school-specific professional development can …
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The Relationship Between the Haberman Star Teacher Pre-Screener Score and the Students’ Academic Growth in a Large Urban School District's Low-Performing Schools.
… are failing or are at-risk of failing in schools across the US. Low-income and minority students, specifically African American students, have a reduced chance to get teachers of high quality when compared with their non-minority, non-low-income peers (Center for Public Education, 2005). …
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Turning the page setting the stage : school culture's profound impact on school turnaround initiatives.
… on the success of turnaround initiatives in low-performing schools? Utilizing Edgar Schein's organizational culture theory and Quinn & Cameron’s competing values framework (CVF), this study explores how the alignment or misalignment of values, beliefs, and assumptions among teachers and …
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Leadership Traits which Improve School Climate Star Ratings and CCRPI Single Scores in Georgia K-12 Urban Schools: A Mixed-Methods Study
… (CCRPI) single scores in Georgia urban K-12 schools. The quantitative method was used to examine quantitative differences related to these two components of Georgia’s state accountability model. The qualitative method was used to explore teachers’ perceptions of the influence of leadership …
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An Empirical Study of a District-Wide K--2 Performance Assessment Program: Teacher Practices, Information Gained, and Use of Assessment Results
The present study suggests further research on low-performing schools. It is also important to explore the impact of assessment results on teaching where in-service on direct questioning, portfolio, student self-assessments, and/or repertories of pedagogy are provided.
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The Examination of Real-Life Implementations of Critical Elements in a Professional Learning Community for High-Performing Middle Schools and Low-Performing Middle Schools
… Commentary, Kahlenberg (2009) identified 5,000 schools across the nation categorized as failing or low-performing schools. A significant amount of attention and resources are dedicated to transform low-performing schools to high-performing schools promoting student achievement. Because of the …
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Identifying the Competencies Required to be a Highly Effective Leader in a Low-Performing School
… required to be a highly effective leader in a low-performing school. This is a Fall 2013 project that involved district leaders and school-based administrators in one of the largest school districts in Florida. This project is important because if successful, it can directly affect the 25% …
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Faculty Perceptions of a High-poverty, High-Performing School
… 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 of the Indiana …
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Discovering Administrative Encouragement Within Turnaround Principals’ Leadership
… how turnaround principals’ leadership of low-performing schools encourages teachers to make necessary changes to improve school performance. Through coding and thematic analysis, two themes confirmed the literature reviewed. TAPs’ have students, and those students are their teachers, and …
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An Assessment of Secondary Schools’ Head Teachers Effective Supervision in Teaching and Learning Process in Kinondoni Municipality
… research design was used. Four secondary schools,two high and two low performing schools from Kinondoni district in Dar es Salaam region were purposely selected to form sample schools. A sample of four heads of schools, sixty teachers, eighty students, one District Education Officer, and …
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The Relationship Between Teacher Efficacy and Use of Data to Inform Instruction in Two Turnaround Middle Schools
<p>Schools across our county must ensure that an increasing percentage of students meet state-specified proficiency standards for the schools to be rated as making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The longer a school fails to make AYP, the more severe are the corrective actions that must be …
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Complicating choice : nuanced portrayals of parental choice decisions
… for families and children attending persistently low performing schools for the past 40 years. Since 1960, choice programs have been expanded with the principal goal of providing opportunities to families and children to attend schools that better align with the families’ educational goals. The …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Building Conditions, Selected Teacher Qualifications, and Student Attendance in High and Low Performing Elementary Schools
… assessment. This evaluation may result in schools being categorized as either low or high performing. The major difference between the two categories is obviously student academic performance, but there may be other differences in the school organizations that would also account for the …
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A Comparative Case Study of Factors Distinguishing Between High and Low-Performance on Reading Achievement in Elementary Rural Appalachian Schools
… factors that distinguish between high and low-performance on reading achievement in elementary rural Appalachian schools. This study determined the most effective instructional reading strategies, as well as other influential factors, implemented by school districts in the rural Appalachia …
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Student-Engaged Assessment-A Meta-Analysis of EL Assessment Practices
… tests are receiving increased attention, low-performing schools are often eligible for increased financial and professional support, intended to improve student achievement. Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models are gaining popularity across the nation, and Expeditionary Learning (EL) …
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Investing in the Modern Day Public School Administrator: Advocating for Change in the Development of Turnaround Principals: A Policy Advocacy Document
… leaders who will be leading the district’s lowest performing schools. This project is important because it can directly affect the growing number of low-performing schools in the district, and ultimately the children’s academic achievement in those schools. If successful, the district also …
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Factors Impacting Principals' Career Decision Making
… </em>appointment as principal in a chronically low-performing school?</p> <p>New principals generally stay no more than five to ten years in any one position (Dancy, 2007; NAESP, 1998). In several states, the average tenure rate for a new principal is just 4.5 years (Fuller, 2009). One of the …
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A study of turnaround efforts in high-poverty schools: characteristics of High Reliability Organizations that determine why some efforts succeed and others fail
… have sought remedies to turnaround chronically low-performing schools. The academic achievement outcomes of implementing such strategies have been mixed. Some schools have experienced clear, unambiguous growth. Others have remained stagnant. Others have regressed. Because of these mixed results, …
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Impact Of Teacher Perceptions On Instructional Practices In Alternative Public High Schools
<p>Alternative schools are perceived by some as low performing schools with ineffective faculty and delinquent students. This perception affects the perceptions of some alternative school teachers about their students and influences the instructional practices they employ. By being aware of their …
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The Quality of Teachers and School Performance in Urban and Rural Secondary Schools in Monduli District, Arusha, Tanzania
… the presence of poor performance in secondary schools, the study sought to investigate the extent to which quality of teachers contributed to secondary school performance in urban and rural secondary schools. More specifically, the study aimed at investigating the qualities of teachers, …
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