Persuaded that quality teaching is the most important way to raise student achievement, the new l... more Persuaded that quality teaching is the most important way to raise student achievement, the new leadership of the San Diego, California schools initiated a focused set of instructional reforms to “jolt” the system from bottom to top beginning in 1998. The core of the effort—a massive investment in attracting good teachers and supporting all principals and teachers with intensive, focused professional development—draws on research about learning, especially from the cognitive sciences, and theories about teaching that contend “student learning will increase when powerful interactions occur between students and teachers around challenging content.”
Measures how well five San Francisco Bay Area schools have implemented the goals of the Knowledge... more Measures how well five San Francisco Bay Area schools have implemented the goals of the Knowledge Is Power Program during the first year of a three-year initiative to prepare underserved urban youth for college
Additional file 1: Appendix A-1. School Identification, Recruiting, and Participation. Supplement... more Additional file 1: Appendix A-1. School Identification, Recruiting, and Participation. Supplementary Figure A-1. School identification and recruiting for Cohorts 1 and 2 in North Carolina. Supplementary Figure A-2. School identification and recruiting for Cohorts 3 and 4 in Texas. Supplementary Figure A-3. School identification and recruiting for Cohort 5 in Ohio
Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, wi... more Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, with an aim ultimately to impact the country’s competitiveness, have been frequent and widespread, including Prepare and Inspire: K-12 Education in STEM for America’s Future from the President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST, 2010), Building a STEM Agenda (National Governors’ Association, 2007), and Rising Above the Gathering Storm (National Academies, 2007). While publicly supported selective STEM high schools, such as the well-known Bronx High School of Science, have an extensive history of offering advanced course work and an emphasis on one or more STEM disciplines to a student body chosen through competitive examination or record of past performance (Hanford, 1997; Subotnik, Rayhack, & Edmiston, 2006), they do not meet this new need. These schools offer opportunities to develop deep expertise in STEM subject areas, but they do not expand the pipeline of students...
This white paper captures experiences and insights from educators and administrators as their dis... more This white paper captures experiences and insights from educators and administrators as their districts integrated micro-credentials in support of professional learning around computational thinking as part of the Computational Thinking for Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Challenge Collaborative.
This paper is supported by the National Center on School Choice, which is funded by a grant from ... more This paper is supported by the National Center on School Choice, which is funded by a grant from the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) (R305A040043). All opinions expressed in this paper represent those of the authors and ...
Part 1 List of Figures and Tables Part 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1 Building Instructional Quali... more Part 1 List of Figures and Tables Part 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1 Building Instructional Quality: A New Theory of Educational Improvement Chapter 4 2 Instructional Reform in San Diego City Schools: A Thoughtful Strategy for Change Chapter 5 3 Changing the System at the Top: Rethinking the District Chapter 6 4 Charting the Results of the Reform Chapter 7 5 Reform at the Elementary Level: Changing Practice, Changing Culture Chapter 8 6 Reform at the Middle School Level: From the Inside Out Chapter 9 7 The Teachers' View: Where Reform Hits the Road Chapter 10 8 Meeting the Needs of High Schools: Reforming the Reform Chapter 11 9 Conclusion Part 12 Appendix: San Diego City School District-Wide Student Performance, SAT-9 Part 13 References Part 14 Index Part 15 About the Authors
Persuaded that quality teaching is the most important way to raise student achievement, the new l... more Persuaded that quality teaching is the most important way to raise student achievement, the new leadership of the San Diego, California schools initiated a focused set of instructional reforms to “jolt” the system from bottom to top beginning in 1998. The core of the effort—a massive investment in attracting good teachers and supporting all principals and teachers with intensive, focused professional development—draws on research about learning, especially from the cognitive sciences, and theories about teaching that contend “student learning will increase when powerful interactions occur between students and teachers around challenging content.”
Measures how well five San Francisco Bay Area schools have implemented the goals of the Knowledge... more Measures how well five San Francisco Bay Area schools have implemented the goals of the Knowledge Is Power Program during the first year of a three-year initiative to prepare underserved urban youth for college
Additional file 1: Appendix A-1. School Identification, Recruiting, and Participation. Supplement... more Additional file 1: Appendix A-1. School Identification, Recruiting, and Participation. Supplementary Figure A-1. School identification and recruiting for Cohorts 1 and 2 in North Carolina. Supplementary Figure A-2. School identification and recruiting for Cohorts 3 and 4 in Texas. Supplementary Figure A-3. School identification and recruiting for Cohort 5 in Ohio
Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, wi... more Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, with an aim ultimately to impact the country’s competitiveness, have been frequent and widespread, including Prepare and Inspire: K-12 Education in STEM for America’s Future from the President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST, 2010), Building a STEM Agenda (National Governors’ Association, 2007), and Rising Above the Gathering Storm (National Academies, 2007). While publicly supported selective STEM high schools, such as the well-known Bronx High School of Science, have an extensive history of offering advanced course work and an emphasis on one or more STEM disciplines to a student body chosen through competitive examination or record of past performance (Hanford, 1997; Subotnik, Rayhack, & Edmiston, 2006), they do not meet this new need. These schools offer opportunities to develop deep expertise in STEM subject areas, but they do not expand the pipeline of students...
This white paper captures experiences and insights from educators and administrators as their dis... more This white paper captures experiences and insights from educators and administrators as their districts integrated micro-credentials in support of professional learning around computational thinking as part of the Computational Thinking for Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Challenge Collaborative.
This paper is supported by the National Center on School Choice, which is funded by a grant from ... more This paper is supported by the National Center on School Choice, which is funded by a grant from the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) (R305A040043). All opinions expressed in this paper represent those of the authors and ...
Part 1 List of Figures and Tables Part 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1 Building Instructional Quali... more Part 1 List of Figures and Tables Part 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1 Building Instructional Quality: A New Theory of Educational Improvement Chapter 4 2 Instructional Reform in San Diego City Schools: A Thoughtful Strategy for Change Chapter 5 3 Changing the System at the Top: Rethinking the District Chapter 6 4 Charting the Results of the Reform Chapter 7 5 Reform at the Elementary Level: Changing Practice, Changing Culture Chapter 8 6 Reform at the Middle School Level: From the Inside Out Chapter 9 7 The Teachers' View: Where Reform Hits the Road Chapter 10 8 Meeting the Needs of High Schools: Reforming the Reform Chapter 11 9 Conclusion Part 12 Appendix: San Diego City School District-Wide Student Performance, SAT-9 Part 13 References Part 14 Index Part 15 About the Authors
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