In the middle school setting, reading is a requirement if students are to access the curriculum and demonstrate content proficiency. By grade three, students are expected to read on grade level, but by middle grades (7-8), some...
Keyword:
middle grades reading, middle school instruction, middle school reading strategies, professional development, professional learning, and reading instruction
Subject:
Middle school teachers -- In-service training -- United States, Reading comprehension, Reading, English language -- Remedial teaching, School improvement programs, and Middle schools -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County
The purpose of this improvement initiative was to increase educator capacity in identifying andaddressing the many needs of children who have experienced trauma at W.R. Odell ElementarySchool. The problem of practice examined...
Keyword:
ACES, Childhood adversity, Resilience, Trauma, and Trauma-Informed
This study examines how building teacher capacity through culturally responsive teaching and targeted instructional strategies enhances outcomes for high school multilingual learners (MLs). Grounded in sociocultural learning...
Keyword:
culturally responsive teaching, English learners, multilingual learners, second language acquisition, and teacher capacity
Subject:
Second language acquisition, Culturally relevant pedagogy, Multilingual persons, English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers, and Teachers
Creator:
McIntosh, Leslie Signmon, Putnam, Cheryl, and Strickler, Scott
Research shows when families and communities are engaged in their schools, students have improved basic skills, higher rates of homework completion, improved attendance, and fewer discipline problems. (Deslandes et al., 2015;...
Keyword:
Family Engagement and Race-Based Traumatic Stress
Subject:
Psychic trauma, Racial justice in education, and Teachers -- Training of
Our disquisition is founded in both the leadership literature and empirical data from four North Carolina school districts. Our work and the literature suggest that support is needed for assistant principals to develop their...
Keyword:
administrator support, assistant principals, leadership, shadowing, social justice, and succession planning
Subject:
Teacher-administrator relationships, School districts -- North Carolina, Assistant school principals, Social justice, and Educational leadership
Creator:
Crave, Jerad J., Elliott, Katie C., Russell, Andrea E., and Swan, Michael E.
Principals transitioning to a new school often struggle to build or sustain a positive school climate in the first 100 days, which can impede school progress and achievement. (Leithwood, Harris, & Hopkins, 2008; MacNeil,...
Keyword:
100 Day plan, Build Trust, New Principal, Principal Churning, Principal Transitions, and Transition Plan
Subject:
School principals -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Teacher-principal relationships -- North Carolina -- Case studies, School improvement programs -- North Carolina -- Case studies, School management and organization -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Educational leadership -- North Carolina -- Case studies
Beginning principals struggle with the complexity of the job, the limits of theirinstructional impact, the loneliness of leadership, and the existing culture’s resistance tochange. This is a problem in Henderson County Public...
Keyword:
Beginning Principals, Leadership, and Mentoring, Professional Growth
Subject:
First year school principals -- North Carolina -- Henderson County, Mentoring in education -- North Carolina -- Henderson County, School administrators -- Training of -- North Carolina -- Henderson County, School administrators -- In-service training -- North Carolina -- Henderson County, Educational leadership -- North Carolina -- Henderson County, School management and organization -- North Carolina -- Henderson County, and Public schools -- North Carolina -- Henderson County
Creator:
Bryant, John Michael, King, Janice Cowan, and Wilson, Brett Alan
Characteristics of a knowledge economy have been extensively documented in the literature. Rapid change resulting from increased technologies and globalization has triggered an unprecedented urgency for all citizens to possess...
Keyword:
economic development, strategic change, and workforce development
Subject:
Guilford Technical Community College, Guilford Technical Community College -- Planning, Vocational education -- North Carolina -- Guilford County, Technical education -- North Carolina -- Guilford County, and Technical education -- Planning
American high school reform has gone through many configurations during the past three decades. Dual enrollment, in which high school students access college courses for credit that can be applied toward high school and college...
Keyword:
community college, concurrent enrollment, dual enrollment, early college, and educational partnerships
Subject:
College-school cooperation -- North Carolina -- Employees -- Attitudes -- Case studies, College-school cooperation -- North Carolina -- Employees -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies, and Dual enrollment -- North Carolina
The disproportionate number of students from economically disadvantaged householdsunderperforming in schools has been long studied and well documented. This study examines therole dispositions, attitudes, and perceptions...
Keyword:
Asset Based, Economically Disadvantaged, Efficacy, Poverty, Professional Development, and Trauma Informed Pedagogy
