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Analyses of teachers’ reasons for leaving consistently demonstrate that issues such as administra-tive support, teacher autonomy, and time to teach are rated as the most important factors in whether or not to remain teaching at a school.2 These conditions have also been shown to impact student achievement.3.
the teachers’ efforts. The researchers found that the five teachers who were at Hooper and Rieber’s reorientation or evolution phases were teachers who had continued professional development, had engaged students in using technology, and had support from their school community. Implications and recommendations for teacher educators are ...
to diversify the teaching workforce (Achinstein et al., 2010; Jackson & Kohli, 2016; Villegas & Irvine, 2010; Villegas et al., 2012). Research suggests that students of color benefit academically from being taught by a teacher of the same race or ethnicity (Egalite et al., 2015; Gershenson et al., 2016; Wright et al., 2017).
The Alabama Education Association ( AEA) is a statewide professional organization that represents public school employees in the state of Alabama. It is based in the state capital of Montgomery. The AEA is the largest education association in Alabama and is an advocate organization that leads the movement for excellence in education and is the ...
During the 3-year study, the research team traced the principal elements and goals of the professional development programs (via pretests and posttests) from teachers' work with historians and other regional teachers to their subsequent design of lessons and engagement of students in similar experiences in the classroom and finally to students ...
The development of the Alabama Professional Education Personnel Evaluation (PEPE) Program for Principals was a response to the numerous reform movements. In Alabama, the reform movement was driven by research indicating that excellence in schools is linked to the leadership skills of the principal and that new principals encounter specific ...
Much has been written about two-year education in Alabama during the governorships of George C. Wallace, but little about two-year education prior to his first inauguration in 1963. Yet nearly a third of the forty-three junior, technical, and community college institutions that eventually formed the Alabama Community College System had been ...
Ariel Sacks is a 13-year veteran teacher who has found success in several different types of schools, most of all in the Renaissance Charter School in New York, New York (Sacks, 2017). One of the keys to her success has been the implementation of professional learning communities (Sacks, 2017). Sacks (2017) stated her school was better able to ...