«Cases, Hypermedia, and Computer Networks: Three
Curricular Innovations for Teacher Education,» in Journal of Curriculum Studies (with C. Lacey), (1993)
In addition, researchers will conduct a school contexts study to compare how schools within and across districts implement the
same curricular innovations.
We went through another round in the 1960s and 70s as «open classrooms» proliferated, schools were desegregated and detracked, and
sundry curricular innovations (e.g., «whole language» reading and «new» math) kicked in.
Such dismal figures may make it possible for a motivated group, such as the local teachers union or advocates of a
particular curricular innovation, to disproportionately influence election outcomes.
We are thrilled to to have partnered with the University of Michigan Office of Academic Innovation and edX on the Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters in order to broaden and foster participation
in curricular innovation.
With her varied leadership experience, she has strengthened the traditional elements of successful schools by
furthering curricular innovation, fostering student and faculty leadership, extending best practices and cultivating inclusive communities.
Curricular innovation — the heart of a dynamic business school — requires a variety of investments in program development to maximize the intellectual capital generated throughout the University's academic community.
At Arizona State University we have been very successful with FAME — Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment — as a unifying theme for multidisciplinary research and
curricular innovation.
They press on students, parents, and teachers in ways that are plausibly said to discourage experimentation, risk - taking, unconventional thinking, unique courses, and individualized research, as well as pedagogical creativity and
curricular innovation.
Many of
the curricular innovations being implemented in the district were chosen specifically because they appear to work well for children who may need extra help and stimulation.
The Museum School offers the accessibility of a public school with the organizational and
curricular innovation of a museum school model.
In the United Kingdom, Parliament passed the Academies Act in 2010 to facilitate state schools becoming academies (comparable to charter schools in the United States) and retaining public funding while gaining greater freedom for
curricular innovation.
Since a primary benefit of private education is
the curricular innovation that can be achieved outside of the regulatory bounds of a public system, state impositions of testing (and by extension curricula) effectively reduce private schools to alternative and independent facsimiles of public schools.
Studying teacher enactment of an innovation helps us understand the process of effective spread of
a curricular innovation to teachers who have differing levels of content readiness, pedagogical
What strategies,
curricular innovations, and programs have already been put in place to take up the questions of indigenous laws in our multi-juridical country?
In the current environment of
curricular innovation and the increased focus on assessment methods, the time is ripe to reexamine grading practices.
Today, we remain on the leading edge of
curricular innovation.