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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"School sites"”.
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Employee Health and Fitness Programs Within Educational Settings: An Examination of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay
… of education and student learning; districts and schools are investigating innovated, yet cost-effective, ways to positively address organizational variables such as job satisfaction and immediate intent to stay. The implementation of employee health and fitness program could be a relatively …
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Effective Interventions for Retention Policy in the Middle Schools
… issue of intervention programs used by middle schools to boost the skills of struggling students at risk of grade retention. The researcher surveyed middle school classroom teachers from two school sites within the same district, the first site a large middle school, the second site a smaller …
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Implementation of Response to Intervention as an Alternative Approach to Specific Learning Disability Determination: What Happens When Theory Meets Practice?
… State Department of Education, a large, urban school district mandated the development of a Response to Intervention (RTI) system for SLD identification during the 2007-2008 school year. The purpose of the present mixed methods case study was to conduct a site-based examination of the early …
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Teacher Self-Efficacy and Resilience With Multilingual Learners: A Rural Secondary Story
… studied by education researchers in California schools. However, there is limited research on educators of multilingual learners who serve rural secondary school sites. While there is a growing number of multilingual learners in rural sites, there is an invisibility of multilingual learners and …
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Including Conscientiously: How Charter School Educators Experience Inclusion Education Implementation
<p>This narrative inquiry examined how charter school educators experience inclusive education implementation while confronting ableist systems that maintain exclusion through seemingly neutral practices. This research emerged from my lived experience of how educational structures systematically …
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Successful Implementation of Laptops in the Classroom: An Implementation Plan
… project is to develop an implementation plan for schools that are incorporating laptop computers into the classroom. Research was conducted through an extensive literature review; a survey of school policies, programs and interviews with three educators at school sites with extensive laptop usage. …
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A process model for evaluating and selecting a school site for a local education agency
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Implementation of Local Control Accountability Plans in a Geographically Diverse Sample of K-12 California Public School Districts: The Impact on the Classroom and Parent Input in the Process
… and Accountability Plans, allows California school districts to allocate funds based on their needs as identified through goals and action items. This research project sheds light on the extent to which the funds have been utilized in the classroom and at the school sites. Surveys were sent …
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The Role of the Site Facilitator in the New Directions in Distance Learning Project
… Directions in Distance Learning (NDDL) project school sites, to learn with whom site facilitators communicate within and outside their working environments, and to discover with whom they build working relationships. E-mail questionnaires and two sets of telephone interviews generated the …
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Collaborative Processes of a Professional Development School Partnership
… processes in the Professional Development School (PDS). Although central to successful PDSs, collaboration in PDS development and maintenance is not yet fully described. This study examined one Maryland PDS Partnership that included participants from one university, one suburban school …
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Social and emotional learning: A case study of the practices and systems within a caring middle school community
… include the background of how one middle school developed social and emotional practices for their student population, the ways in which those practices are implemented and sustained in the school community, how social-emotional learning practices interface with academics, and approaches …
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Converging behaviorist and constructivist theories in classroom settings
… needs of all students become more difficult as school districts are forced to reduce spending which may result in increased class sizes, elimination of second language and enrichment programs, and a reduction in school personnel at school sites. With these budget cuts the demands placed on …
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Bright Eyes, Brown Skin: Perceptions of Gifted Education and the Black Male Child
… in gifted education at five different school sites within one urban school district. Specifically, the researcher investigated how gifted Black males perceived their placement in gifted education, family involvement, and peer relationships. Data were collected through individual …
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Health and Fitness Awareness in Schools and Student Impact: A Quantitative Study
… of this study was to analyze whether or not schools can have an impact on student knowledge of health and fitness if they implement programs that educate students in that content area. This study gathered information, via student questionnaires, from two school sites, to compare student …
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Principal decision-making and the teachers' use of the complaint and grievance procedure.
… how contracts and agreements are interpreted at school sites. Speculation about the effects of collective bargaining describe comprehensive situations and neglect the individual settings which are most critically affected. Furthermore, a need persists to reveal those aspects of "life as a …
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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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Student Perceptions of the Effect of Teacher Turnover on Passing the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE)
… on their ability to pass the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE). Participants were students with special education needs in grades 11th and 12th since; beginning in 2007 this group has to pass the California’s California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) in order to earn a high school …
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Nurturing Excellence: A Case Study of High School Learning Environments for the Gifted
… cognitive and social-emotional needs of high school gifted learners are not sufficiently met through accelerated coursework like Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate alone. Addressing their needs requires the design, implementation, and leadership of programming that maximizes …
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Central Florida Educational Leaders' Professional Perceptions of Race to the Top Components Concerning Teacher Evaluation and Compensation
… free and reduced lunch population at the school sites where assigned. Among the identified RTTT components, the component that provided for the use of school- or team-level VAM scores as part of the evaluation and compensation system was consistently viewed as the least fair and least …
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A Journey Into Teaching: Through an Indigenous Lens
… takes you on a journey through two different school sites with contrasting school environments as a critical social justice educator. As a Native American Fellow, I analyze the prospects of teaching Native American children with love and the knowledge of my own cultural background. My three …
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