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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"school transformation"”.
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School transformation : the barriers, challenges, and obstacles, explored through turnaround principal's perspectives.
School turnaround in the United Stated has been a focus dating back to the mid 1960s with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act aimed to ensure that children have equal access to excellent educational opportunities. This qualitative …
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High School Transformation: The Lived Experience of Teachers Moving to Small Learning Environments
… environment for students (Oxley, 2005). 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 …
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An Analysis of Selected 1994-95 Phase III Plans Submitted Under the Iowa Educational Excellence Act (Chapter 294A)
… legislative focus was changed to comprehensive school transformation. The study was guided by four questions; 1) What sources of school improvement literature and recommendations are cited in Phase III rationales? 2) What rationales are developed for Phase III plans? 3) What activities are …
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StoneSoup: Technology Innovation, Introduction, and Use to Support Learner -Centered Education
… (Snow, 2005). A techno-reform approach to public school transformation introduces technological innovations into educational settings to change the delivery and experience of public education. Thus, the introduction and use of StoneSoup was intended to illuminate the potential of, as well as the …
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The effects of community school partnerships on students and educators in five urban high schools : a view from the field
… models in order to turn around underperforming schools. One of the newer models that is being implemented across the country is a strategy called community schools. Over the last few years, the number of districts that have started to utilize the community school model has increased …
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Equity-focused leadership: The leadership practices and beliefs of principals in academically successful schools serving students from marginalized communities
The American schooling system is built on a history of inequity where some students have been, and continue to be, denied access to opportunity structure based on discriminatory policies, practices, structures, and systems. This lack of equitable access and educational experiences have led to …
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Flexibility Matters: A Qualitative Look at Four Middle Grade Teachers’ Implementation of Personalized Learning
… study will examine how four exemplary middle school teachers implement PL in a Title 1 middle school in a large urban K-12 school district in the Southeast. The study will also describe these teachers’ perceptions of PL. </p> <p><em>Keywords</em>: personalized learning, technology, 1:1 …