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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Small Learning Communities"”.
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Analysis of small learning communities on suburban schools
… noticed. Across the nation the move to create smaller learning communities has been an attempt to solve the ills that plague our inner city schools. The intended question of this study is whether or not the smaller learning communities will have the same measurable impact in a suburban …
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The Effect of Small Learning Communities on the High School Experience for At-risk Students
<p>From elementary schools to universities, small learning communities (SLCs) are cropping up all over the place. While SLCs sound like a good idea, there is little viable research to support their implementation at the high school level. There seems to be an inherent assumption that collaboration …
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The Effect of Small Learning communities on Academic Success: One School's Journey from Comprehensive to Personalized
<p>Many schools are starting Small Learning Communities yet much is unknown about their outcomes. Students are literally disappearing in comprehensive high schools and violence has escalated. Those who implement Small Learning Communities are looking to combat these problems. While rarely feasible …
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Investigating the Effects of Facilitating a Participatory Action Research Study at a High School with Small Learning Communities
… hemispheric PAR, focused on organizational learning and the improvement of systems and procedures; southern hemispheric PAR, rooted in autonomy, empowerment, and giving voice to marginalized populations; and a reflective process that charges participants to look inward, at their immediate …
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Teacher Efficacy Beliefs in Collaborative Learning Communities: A Statewide Study in Large High Schools
… the connections between collaborative teacher learning communities as related to teacher efficacy in the largest high schools in Ohio. These communities are typically called Small Learning Communities and Professional Learning Communities. Small Learning Communities are usually created with …
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Exploring the School-Within-A-School (SWAS) Model
… share the successes and challenges of modern day learning environments, Schools-Within-School programs are studied. The research has been examined to pinpoint instructional and organizational factors that lead to student success. Specifically studied are Schools- Within-School programs. A thorough …
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High School Transformation: The Lived Experience of Teachers Moving to Small Learning Environments
… High school transformation, also known as the small schools movement, is a reform that is gaining currency in the world of education (Meier, 2006). Alien (2001) observed that high school transformation is the process of altering the makeup of a large comprehensive high school, also known as a …
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Advisory programs: evaluation of the planning for implementation in an urban high school
… of high school reform has been to support small, more personalized school structures, along with other complimentary strategies that enhance teaching and learning as being more likely to produce beneficial results. The major purpose of the small schools movement is to convert failing, …
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An in-depth analysis of why teachers choose to work at small innovative high schools
… schools, focus or theme-based schools, and small learning communities. Statistics have shown that these types of schools are making positive strides in educating high school students as well as preparing them for the work force and making them productive members of society. This study takes …
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Screen Time, How Much is Too Much? The Social and Emotional Costs of Technology on the Adolescent Brain
… Students from a local high school in two small learning communities (SLC) were given iPads as part of a pilot program within the New Tech Network. Two general education art classes were given a survey to find the emotional and social factors of this added technology in their lives. Of the …
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A Quantitative Study Comparing Traditional High Schools and High Schools Implementing Freshman Academies in the State of Tennessee.
<p>The purpose of this study was to compare 9th grade student achievement in Tennessee schools the year before and after the schools implemented a freshman academy, as well as compare such schools with traditional Tennessee high schools. The factors in this study that impact student achievement and …
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"Hanging On With Both Hands": Teacher Leaders and Small School Reform
Because many schools that are naturally small have experienced successful student outcomes, there has been a recent trend of converting large, comprehensive schools into smaller units, with the idea of replicating these successes. These smaller schools have a higher demand for teacher leadership, …
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A Comparison Prior to and After Implementation of a Ninth Grade Academy in East Tennessee High Schools.
<p>The purpose of this study was to identify student progress during the 9th grade year by evaluating student data prior to and after the implementation of a 9th grade academy in 2 east Tennessee high schools. The testing variables included the number of core credits earned, the number of elective …
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Student Outcomes and the Implementation of a Ninth Grade Academy in a Western North Carolina High School.
<p>One purpose of this study was to compare outcomes of students who were part of a 9<sup>th</sup> grade academy during their freshman year with outcomes of students who were not part of a 9<sup>th</sup> grade academy during their freshman year. Student outcomes are defined for this study to …