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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"school change"”.
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Conversion Charter School Leaders' Perceptions of School Change: A Narrative Inquiry
<p>Three decades of change efforts in American urban public school districts to improve educational opportunities for students have had a lackluster impact on student achievement. For students living in areas of concentrated poverty, achievement gaps and drop out rates remain unacceptably high. …
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Facilitating Middle Level School Change: A Study of a Network's Role
… as beneficial and instrumental in helping the schools change practices. Network affiliation and services helped teachers learn about and begin to practice the middle level components of interdisciplinary teaching teams, advisement and integrated curriculum. The network provided emotional …
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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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Dismantling the Education-Survival Complex: A Qualitative Case Study of How High School Youth Resist Whitestream School Policies and Foster School Change Through a Youth-Development Organization
… critically examine how youth resist whitestream school policies and foster educational change through community sociopolitical youth-development organizations. The methodology for this study is a qualitative case study (Fraenkel & Wallen, 1990; Merriam, 1988), as I am focused on participant …
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Three Essays on Family Economics
… the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of family relocation on various children's outcomes. We extend our discussion to the context …
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Independently innovative: Teachers and change in successful schools
<p>This study explores teachers' perceptions of school change and leadership. The study is guided by the question: In an innovative independent school, how do teachers perceive deliberate change efforts and relate to the leaders who lead them. Other issues considered are the role of school culture, …
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Case Study of an Urban Elementary School's Transition from Failing to Distinguished School Status
… an urban high-poverty high-minority elementary school changed as it moved from failing school status to distinguished school status and to determine how school change promoted the organizational well-being of the school using a case study methodology. The multidimensional lenses used to view …
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The roles of school principals in implementing change in elementary and secondary schools in Thailand
This project investigates the role of the school principal in implementing school wide change that fosters a positive school climate while adopting New Education Reform in Thailand. This study shows how a principal can support change in a school in the context of educational reform in Thailand. The …
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Two Rural Schools: A Study of the Planning, Process and Leadership of School Improvement
Results of the study showed that the schools researched exhibited only some of the eight indicators to a high level. The teachers at both schools perceive they have quality leaders in place who can successfully guide them into the future. Both schools were making attempts to be collaborative, yet …
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An Analysis of the Relationship Between School-Based Management/shared Decision Making and School Climate
… between the level of implementation of school-based management/shared decision making and teachers' perceptions of school climate. The findings further suggest that (a) training in S-BM/SDM processes impact implementation, (b) teachers experiencing influence in decision making impact …
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Elementary accreditation: Pro forma or substance? A view from inside the schoolhouse gates
… unwieldy task of defining effective measures of school improvement. Calls for accountability and improvement resound in the halls of legislatures, the media, and in communities nationwide. The accreditation of schools has served as a conduit for accountability, but has it served as a vehicle for …
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Bullying in Schools: A Complexity Approach to Sustainable Restorative Approaches?
… review of the literature suggests that the Whole School Approach is the most common form of implementing restorative approaches in English schools. This research has sought to address a substantial gap in the existing literature, which has focused on implementation rather than the sustainability …
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Louisiana INTECH Professional Development: Middle School Administrators' Perceptions of Change as Related to Student Achievement
School accountability requires administrators and policymakers to implement sound programs that sustain school improvement. Hundreds of Louisiana teachers participate in Louisiana Integration of Technology (INTECH) professional development as a strategy to change instructional practice and improve …
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Stressors, resources, and parent-child relationships of reentry students in a metropolitan area
… reentry students' perceived relationships with school-age children during the initial semester of return to undergraduate school. Change in student stressors, resources, and parent-child relationships were explored and demographic characteristics were described. In addition, predictors of parent …
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A Narrative Case Study Describing the Support Culture for the Change Process in a Small Parochial, Boarding Secondary School
<p>Problem. History acknowledges that change in education is difficult. Literature suggests that the educational system plays a critical role in individual school-change initiatives. Educators need to seek for better understanding of the influence that system issues have on the change process. This …
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Preparing for change: an examination of an urban school's extra-curricular activities and professional learning communities in creating a culture ready for change
… professional learning communities to create a school culture ready for academic change. This unique approach to implementing change, in a historically failing urban middle school, utilizes a two pronged approach focusing on personalizing strategies specific to the school based on student and …
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Fostering teacher leadership: transforming learning and leading to enhance school culture
… leadership and the challenges related to school change require schools to cultivate new sources of leadership (Anderson, 2009; Copland, 2003, Danielson, 2007, Goldstein, 2004). Literature demonstrates that teacher leadership is linked to increased professional learning, sustained change, …
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Scaffolded Discourse Within a Comprehensive Literacy Model
… has shown that successful models of school change have several common features: a balance of teacher autonomy and accountability, high-quality professional development, quality leadership, and the support of an outside partner. One model that has these features is the comprehensive …
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Pueblo Voices: Defining the Role of Pueblo Education
… of Pueblo education is essential to positive school change. With this premise in mind, I conducted extensive interviews in an attempt to understand more clearly what parents, traditional elders, and other Pueblo community members perceived the role of Santa Fe Indian School and other schools …
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Lessons From A Rural Georgia School on Developing Successful Professional Learning Communities
The literature on educational leadership and school change recognizes clearly the influence of the principal on whether or not change will occur in the school. It seems clear that transforming the school organization into a professional learning community can be done only with the sanction of the …
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