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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Whole school"”.
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Towards a whole school environmental policy
… is organised in a cross section of Lancashire schools and how it could be developed. The question of whether a school can claim to provide a good environmental education without attending to its environmental performance is examined. Information was gathered by three means; unstructured in …
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Whole-School Inclusive Reform: "It's What's Best for Kids”
<p>This qualitative case study investigates a school and university inclusive reform project, called the All Means All Project, and how it is understood and experienced by teachers and administrators at Kennedy School, a K-8 school in the northeast United States. The All Means All Project began …
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Bullying Prevention: Combining Whole-School Approaches and Positive School Climate
Bullying is a common occurrence in schools and it can have many serious consequences. The literature review examined the following whole-school anti-bullying programs: The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, Steps to Respect, and Bully Prevention in Positive Behavior Support. The review also …
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School management and governance in relation to whole school development
… and management of holistic changes in schools across South Africa have positioned principals in the unprecedented occupational position of transformational leaders who are accountable for renewing schools in accordance with national policy mandates, provincial proclamations and regional …
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The development of a whole school approach to education for sustainability
… to the unsustainable conditions we now face. A whole school approach to education for sustainability (EfS) supports the notion that children learn both through an enacted curriculum and informally through the messages and meanings inherent in their surroundings. A whole school approach to EfS …
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Understanding influences in policy-making : whole-school evaluation and discourse - a critique
… dissertation is to undertake a critique of the Whole-school Evaluation (WSE) Policy. The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to reveal the major influences in the policy and to ask what important issues have been overlooked. The dissertation examines dominant discourses in the policy …
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The Seminarts experience: restructuring a ninth grade transitional program in a whole school arts academy
The potential problem with a student's high school experience may begin as soon as he/she enters the high school. Freshmen students experience increased changes in school environment, as well as new friends, teachers, rules and regulations, and challenging courses. They need to maneuver all of …
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Has the adoption of whole school reform benefitted eighth grade students at Cantrell Middle School?
… to describe and evaluate the effectiveness of Whole School Reform on the delivery of instructional services to eighth graders using a community-based action research design. The study will result in a feasibility report to inform parents, teachers, students, administrators, and board members. …
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An examination of the practice of teaching for critical comprehension in a whole school context
This thesis studies the practice of teaching for critical comprehension, which extends from literal to critical understanding of classroom, community and world texts. It views comprehension as core to teachers’ practice. A professional learning program explored ways that an expanded view of …
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Teachers' perceptions of the essential features of whole school development / organisation : towards a model for intervention
… teachers' perceptions of the elements of whole school development and the extent to which certain essential features of such development are associated with school effectiveness. The study aims at determining the extent to which school effectiveness is associated with the following four …
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Children's right to be heard during whole-school evaluation in Irish primary schools: student's and teachers' perspectives
… and to have such views given due weight. As school inspection is a matter affecting children, it is, therefore, a matter about which they are entitled to have their views sought, listened to and taken into account. This study, by a practising inspector, considers the implementation of the …
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Improving learning through whole-school evaluation: moving towards a model of internal evaluation in Irish post-primary schools
This study explores the concept of school evaluation and in particular how the Irish education system and post-primary schools can successfully move from a centrally controlled system of evaluation to a model based on school self-evaluation. Within a context of increasing interest in school …
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Metacognition, self-regulation, oracy: A mixed methods case study of a complex, whole-school Learning to Learn intervention
… was developed and implemented at a secondary school in the south of England between 2010 and 2014, and evaluated using data collected between 2009 and 2017. Learning to Learn is a field of educational theory and practice that aims to help young people get better at learning by focusing on the …
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Thinking about change in a Thinking School: Conceptualising whole school change in the context of an English secondary school
Abstract Thinking about change in a Thinking School: Conceptualising whole school change in the context of an English secondary school This thesis examines a qualitative case study of whole school change based on the perceived experiences of members of a Staff Drive Team and a Student Drive Team in …
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A critical exploration of a Professional Learning Community as a mechanism for developing whole-school approaches to literacy in Wales.
… of literacy coordinators as they established whole-school literacy approaches in secondary schools in Wales. The area of focus came into view partly in response to a period of considerable and intense change in schools across Wales regarding the development of literacy skills per se and …
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