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Oct 2009 -
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| Description: |
Research for Action is engaged in an evaluation of the Camden Middle Grades Initiative. The Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA) and the Center for Evidence-Based Education (CEBE) are partnering to provide professional development, site-based support in teaching and learning, and job-embedded coaching to teachers and administrators working with learners in grades 4-8 in twelve Camden City public schools. RIISA and CEBE have been working to help these schools align school and district leadership's focus on learning, build school, district, and state professional learning communities; and improve teachers' classroom practices in, for example, the use of formative assessment to guide instruction.
RFA is currently using a formative and summative evaluation framework that examines how the initiative's various activities interact with each other and to what extent specific components lay the groundwork for substantive improvements at the classroom, school, and district levels with special attention to student learning. This approach reflects a growing interest among researchers and practitioners in understanding schools and districts as learning organizations. |
| Team Leaders: |
Suzanne Blanc
Diane C. Brown
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| Team Members: |
Kimberly Edmunds
Holly Plastaras Maluk
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| Client(s): |
Rutgers University; Center for Evidence-Based Education |
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