Facilitating a culture of relational trust in school-based action research: recognising the role of middle leaders vrijdag 12 mei 2017 Practices such as formal focused professional dialogue groups, coaching conversations, mentoring conversations and professional learning staff meetings have been taken up in schools and pre-schools as part of long-term action research and development activities to improve the learning and teaching practices. The development of relational trust has long been described in the literature as pivotal for the ongoing ‘success’ of such research and development in sites. Lees meer
System-wide improvement of early-grade mathematics: New evidence from the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy donderdag 11 mei 2017 This article reports on a two-year evaluation of the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy (GPLMS), an innovative system-wide reform intervention designed to improve learning outcomes in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Lees meer
Teaching to the Student: Charter School Effectiveness in Spite of Perverse Incentives donderdag 11 mei 2017 Recent work has shown that Boston charter schools raise standardized test scores more than their traditional school counterparts. Lees meer