Coaching: A Strategy for Developing Instructional Capacity
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Coaching is an increasingly popular strategy for districts seeking large-scale improvement in instruction. In this paper, Coaching: A Strategy for Developing Instructional Capacity, Barbara Neufeld and Dana Roper describe what coaching is, what coaches do, the kinds of supports that coaches need, and the potential benefits to both educators and students. The paper is co-published by the Annenberg Institute and the Aspen Institute Program on Education. A print copy of this report can be ordered via the web site of the Annenberg Institute.
Transforming Events: A Local Education Fund's Efforts to Promote Large-Scale Urban School Reform
This paper was co-authored by Barbara Neufeld and Ellen Guiney, Executive Director of the Boston Plan for Excellence, the local education fund that has taken a leading role in supporting whole-school improvement in the Boston Public Schools. The paper describes the ways in which this local education fund has been working with the Boston Public Schools. It was originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New Orleans in April 2002 and revised for publication in June 2002. [This report is available for PDF Download on the web site of the Annenberg Challenge. The article by Neufeld and Guiney begins on page 51.]
Transforming Abbott Schools in New Jersey, Guidance from the Field. (November 1997)
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This paper was prepared for the Education Law Center, Newark, NJ, as part of a set of papers written to inform discussions about how to improve urban schools in New Jersey in light of the state Supreme Court's May 14, 1997 order that the state of New Jersey "immediately establish parity in regular education spending between each special needs district and average spending in wealthy suburban districts." The papers were compiled into a volume titled Transforming Teaching and Learning in Special Needs Districts which was background reading for a meeting designed to address "next steps" in this process which was held at the Education Testing Service's Chauncey Center in Princeton, NJ during the weekend of December 12-14, 1997.
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