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Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement: Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts

Education and Literacy

Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement: Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts

Does providing instruction-related professional development to school principals set in motion a chain of events that can improve teaching and learning in their schools? This report examines professional development efforts by the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Learning in elementary schools in Austin, St. Paul, and New York City.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Minnesota / Ramsey County / St. Paul;North America / United States (Southwestern) / Texas;North America / United States (Northeastern) / New York / New York County / New York City

Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement: Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts

Education and Literacy

Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement: Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts

Does providing instruction-related professional development to school principals set in motion a chain of events that can improve teaching and learning in their schools? This report examines professional development efforts by the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Learning in elementary schools in Austin, St. Paul, and New York City.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Minnesota / Ramsey County / St. Paul;North America / United States (Southwestern) / Texas;North America / United States (Northeastern) / New York / New York County / New York City

Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement: Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts

Education and Literacy

Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement: Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts

Does providing instruction-related professional development to school principals set in motion a chain of events that can improve teaching and learning in their schools? This report examines professional development efforts by the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Learning in elementary schools in Austin, St. Paul, and New York City.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Minnesota / Ramsey County / St. Paul;North America / United States (Southwestern) / Texas;North America / United States (Northeastern) / New York / New York County / New York City

PreK-3 Professional Development Evaluation Brief

Education and Literacy

PreK-3 Professional Development Evaluation Brief

Evaluation brief about professional development in McKnight's early literacy grantee school sites. Researched and prepared under contract by SRI International and the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the U of M; part of McKnight's efforts to use research, field-building, and advocacy to increase the percentage of Twin Cities students reading proficiently by the end of third grade.

December 1969

Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Minnesota (Twin Cities)

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