Looks at leadership in schools and offers stories of three schools--an elementary school with low leadership capacity, a middle school with moderate leadership capacity, and a high school with high leadership capacity--revealing how educators can lead their communities to improve student learning.
Growing Up American: Schooling and the Survival of Community
Teaching is a complex construct, and there is near-universal consensus, in the literature in the United States and internationally, that capturing this complexity requires collecting multiple measures from multiple sources.
The Service Learning Handbook seeks to provide students with a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.
CommunityMatters provides the cultural and social context for MindMatters. It shifts the focus from the notion of "mental health" to a holistic approach to school and emotional wellbeing linked to identity, culture and community.
Fafunwa ( 1982 ) , Jegede ( 1994 ) , Betts and Tabachnick ( 1998 ) , Bledsoe ( 1992 ) , Johnson ( 1995 ) , Kinyanjui ( 1990 ) , AALAE ( 1990 ) , Banya ( 1991 , 1993 ) , Tedla ( 1995 ) , Folson ( 1995 ) ...
Educational Measurement : Issues and Practice , 11 , 1 : 36-44 . 4. Barnes , Lehman W. and Marianne B. Barnes ( 1991 ) . “ Assessment , Practically Speaking . How Can We Measure Hands - on Science Skills ?
This series of case studies is the result of a major three year national research study and captures the experiences of educators in settings around Australia as they implement a diverse range of environmental education programs.
Archival files, annual reports, board and city council minutes, newspapers, personal papers, censuses, city directories, church records, and school syllabi were used to measure qualitatively and quantitatively the school attendance ...
Overall, the review highlighted a lack of solid empirical evidence relating to inter-school collaboration.
Taking Stock is designed to help us build a closer partnership between the school, our families, and the community.