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How Can Comprehensive School Reform Models Be Successfully Implemented
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This article reviews and synthesizes the literature that documents CSR implementation and finds that all five policy attributes contribute to implementation; in particular, specificity is related to implementation fidelity, power to immediate implementation effects, and consistency, authority, and stability to long-lasting change.Abstract:
Comprehensive school reform, or CSR, a currently a popular approach to school improvement, is intended to foster schoolwide change that affects all aspects of schooling (e.g., curriculum, instruction, organization, professional development, and parent involvement). Federal, state, and local legislation and funding have supported CSR implementation, and in 1997 Congress enacted the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration program, which gives financial support to schools adopting such reforms. This article reviews and synthesizes the literature that documents CSR implementation, positing that the more specific, consistent, authoritative, powerful, and stable a policy is, the stronger its implementation will be. It finds that all five policy attributes contribute to implementation; in particular, specificity is related to implementation fidelity, power to immediate implementation effects, and consistency, authority, and stability to long-lasting change.read more
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Improving Impact Studies of Teachers’ Professional Development: Toward Better Conceptualizations and Measures
TL;DR: The authors argue that the use of a common conceptual framework would elevate the quality of professional development studies and subsequently the general understanding of how best to shape and implement teacher learning opportunities for the maximum benefit of both teachers and students.
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What Makes Professional Development Effective? Strategies That Foster Curriculum Implementation:
TL;DR: This article used a sample of 454 teachers engaged in an inquiry science program to examine the effects of different characteristics of professional development on teachers' knowledge and their ability to implement the program.
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Defining, Conceptualizing, and Measuring Fidelity of Implementation and Its Relationship to Outcomes in K–12 Curriculum Intervention Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature on measuring fidelity of K-12 curriculum interventions and their relationship to outcomes, focusing on how fidelity of implementation to core curriculum interventions can be measured and related to outcomes.
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Best practices in teacher's professional development in the United States
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for effective professional development is presented, which suggests five key features that make professional development effective—content focus, active learning, coherence, sustained duration, and collective participation.
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Increasing Achievement by Focusing Grade-Level Teams on Improving Classroom Learning: A Prospective, Quasi-Experimental Study of Title I Schools
TL;DR: This paper conducted a quasi-experimental investigation of effects on achievement by grade-level teams focused on improving learning and found that stable school-based settings, distributed leadership, and explicit protocols are key to effective teacher teams.
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CONOCIMIENTO Y ENSEÑANZA: FUNDAMENTOS DE LA NUEVA REFORMA 1 Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teachi ng reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprension and reasoning, transformation and reflection, and argues that this emphasis is justified by the resoluteness with which research and policy have so blatantly ignored those aspects of teaching in the past.
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Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teaching reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprehension and reasoning, transformation and reflection. "This emphasis is justified," he writes,...
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What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers
TL;DR: The authors used a large-scale empirical comparison of effects of different characteristics of professional development on teachers' learning, and found that content knowledge, opportunities for active learning and coherence with other learning activities significantly affect teacher learning.