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    Culturally responsive coaching for inclusive schools: A guide to planning your LeadScape Coaching Dialogues

    1/13/10 - Mulligan, Elaine, Kozeski, Elizabeth B., Equity Alliance at ASU

    "NIUSI-LeadScape coaching consists of a series of structured, one-on-one, interactions between a coach and coachee aimed at enhancing the coachee’s effectiveness in developing inclusive school practices. These interactions can be face to face, by telephone, or combined with team meetings as required. Coaching can be used to support teachers, support personnel, instructional leaders, or school principals as needed to reinforce inclusive practices. Coaching addresses multiple layers of...

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    Facilitating transformation: A framework for culturally responsive cognitive coaching in schools

    1/5/10 - Mulligan, Elaine, Kozeski, Elizabeth B., Equity Alliance at ASU

    "This coaching framework provides the intent, structure, and processes for providing coaching support to participating NIUSI-LeadScape principals. NIUSI-LeadScape is a federally-funded grant project to support the transformative work of inclusive schools. This project works to provide school leaders with the tools, professional learning, and ongoing dialogue necessary to transform school practices so that all students have full access to educational opportunities. The NIUSI-LeadScape...

  • Learning Academies: Building Leadership Teams

    1/1/04 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

    This professional learning module was developed by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). The academies in this module promote inclusive systems and schools by coaching Building Leadership Team members in both leadership skills and team collaboration.

  • Learning Academies: Module 2, Mining Data

    1/1/04 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

    This module was designed by National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI) to help building leadership teams learn the skills required to mine data and use it to make decisions. As principals and teacher leaders become confident in their ability to query their data, they will become strong role models and coaches for the entire faculty. This module takes a serious look at understanding and using data and other evidence of student performance to improve student learning. Participants...

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    Creating a Relationship between Professional Development and English Language Learners

    1/21/09 - Sally Nathenson-Mejia

    We are a team of professors and instructors from the university working on a large scale PD initiative with teachers in the Denver metropolitan area who have English language learners as their students. From the university, Ruth Brancard, Mark Clarke, Alan Davis, Jennifer QuinnWilliams, Barbara Vaille and I head a group of experienced, qualified district instructors and coaches. The professional development we provide includes courses on effective teaching and assessment practices for...

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    Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative - 2007-2008 Report

    1/14/09 - Georgia Department of Education,

    "The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) administers a statewide graduation coach program to identify and provide early intervention services to students at risk of dropping out of school. The program was initiated in the 2006-2007 school year and supported the placement of a graduation coach in Georgia public high schools. The program was subsequently expanded in 2007-2008 to include graduation coaches in middle schools. This program supports GaDOE Strategic Goal One by providing school...

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    Guide for Coaching Dialogues

    1/6/09 - Elaine Mulligan

    NIUSI-LeadScape coaching supports school leaders in their work to lead change, as well as serving as a model for school leaders to coach teachers and staff in implementing inclusive practices

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    New and experienced teachers in a school reform initiative: the example of Reading First

    1/9/09 - Karl Nelestuen, Caitlin Scott, Makato Hanita, LeAnne Robinson, Tracy Coskle

    "This study compares the experiences and perceptions of new and experienced teachers in 235 schools in six western states (Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming) that have adopted the Reading First school reform initiative. Using previously collected data from surveys and interviews, the study considers four areas of the reform initiative for bringing all K–3 students up to grade level in reading by grade 3: instructional coaches, teacher collaboration, use of student...

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    An Introduction to LeadScape

    1/13/09 - Elaine Mulligan

    Presentation designed to give an overview of the LeadScape principals project inlcuding support for professional development, technical assistance, ongoing coaching, and web-based tools.

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    Can Teacher Training in Classroom Management Make a Difference for Children’s Experiences in Preschool?: A Preview of Findings from the Foundations of Learning Demonstration

    1/23/09 - Pamela Morris , Cybele Raver , Chrishana M. Lloyd , Megan Millenky

    "This report offers a preview of promising findings from Foundations of Learning (FOL), a demonstration and random assignment evaluation in Newark and Chicago of an intervention that trains preschool teachers to better support children’s behavior and emotional development. The model tested in Foundations of Learning combined teacher training in effective classroom management with weekly classroom consultation. Consultants coached and mentored the teachers in the new strategies learned in...

  • Can Technology Narrow the Black-White Achievement Gap?

    1/1/05 - Beglau, Monica M.

    The significant gains that have been made in the achievement of African-American students in Missouri may be the result of a collaborative education program called enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies (eMINTS), which uses technology to make a difference in student achievement. Focusing on the expectation that all students can attain higher performance levels, eMINTS includes mechanisms for increasing quality parental involvement and provides teachers with...

  • Close to the classroom is close to the bone: Coaching as a means to translate research into classroom practice.

    1/1/95 - Gersten, R., Mowont, M., & Brengelman, S.
  • Closing the Achievement Gap With Curriculum Enrichment and Differentiation: One School's Story

    1/1/08 - Beecher, Margaret, Sweeny, Sheelah M.

    This article summarizes a unique approach to reducing the achievement gap that strategically blended differentiated curriculum with schoolwide enrichment teaching and learning. The theories of enrichment and instructional differentiation were translated into practice in an elementary school that had previously embraced a remedial paradigm. This enrichment approach resulted in improved student achievement and the reduction of the achievement gap between rich and poor and among different...

  • Closing the achievement gap with curriculum enrichment and differentiation: One school's story

    1/1/08 - Beecher, Margaret, Sweeny, Sheelah M.

    This article summarizes a unique approach to reducing the achievement gap that strategically blended differentiated curriculum with schoolwide enrichment teaching and learning. The theories of enrichment and instructional differentiation were translated into practice in an elementary school that had previously embraced a remedial paradigm. This enrichment approach resulted in improved student achievement and the reduction of the achievement gap between rich and poor and among different...

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    Co-Teaching and Team Teaching: Promising Opportunities for Supporting Novice Special Education Teachers Within the School Culture

    1/1/10 - Pugach, M. C., Blanton, L. P., Correa, V. I., McLeskey, J., & Langley, L. K.

    A collaborative school context can support novice special education teachers. Co-teaching and team teaching represent collaborative opportunities that can counteract the historic isolation of special education teachers. Co-teaching and team teaching—the focus of this Brief—also have the potential for supporting novice teacher socialization in the school setting.

  • Coaching as unreflective practice: Contrived collegiality or collaborative culture

    1/1/89 - Hargreaves, A., & Dawe, R.
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