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In a recent analysis of data, I identified that it would take a school district in the southwestern region of the United States 134 and 136 years to achieve 70% [...]

Times of chaos and turbulence often inspire innovation. The pandemic, which had a profoundly negative impact on our school community in suburban Philadelphia, also created opportunities and quickened the pace [...]

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The teacher shortage currently plaguing the United States is exacerbated in the urban context. One particular model being adopted in urban school districts to address the teacher shortage and issues of educational equity is the urban teacher residency (UTR) model. The UTR model employs a collaboration between institutions of higher education (IHEs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to recruit, train, and retain high-quality teachers in high-needs urban schools. This synthesis of the literature highlights themes regarding known best practices in teacher residencies, particularly in the urban context, and also aims to highlight the UTR as a context-specific way to train new teachers. I discuss the implications of cultural mismatching between teachers and their students, and highlight components and critiques of the UTR model. Finally, I discuss the implications of these best practices for policy, practice, and future research. Keywords: urban teacher residency, UTR, urban education, teacher preparation, Introduction Pervasive teacher shortages across the United States are causing school districts to adopt substandard hiring practices to fill a rapidly increasing number of vacant positions (Darling-Hammond et al., 2016; [...]

This past fall, I met with a small group of school superintendents in Murrieta, Calif., a suburban community in Riverside County, about 90 minutes from my home in Palm Springs. [...]

Purpose: This study mainly aims to determine the role of organizational culture in mediating the influence of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and innovative work behavior (IWB) on the employee performance of education sector from the perspective of teachers in the context of Malaysia as the research object. Design/methodology/approach: The qualitative research methodology has been employed in this study in order to collect and analysis the empirical data. A total of 6 primary teachers from two school districts participated in semi-structured interview and questionnaire has been distributed using online platform as research instrument. Findings: The result of this study can be summarized that: (1) OCB and IWB have influenced toward employee performance, (2) organizational culture mediated the influence of OCB and IWB toward employee performance, (3) organizational culture had influenced toward employee performance. It is concluded that organizational culture has played the role of mediating and became a new significant variable among the OCB and IWB variables, which then significantly impact on the employee's performance. Research limitations/implications: The recent study has been done to contribute the innovation research stream by examining the mediate role of organizational culture that motivates employee to exhibit innovative and good work behaviors to promote employee's performance in the workplace. Practical implications: It can be recommended that education districts facilitate employee's performance through promoting greater training and development, proper incentives and career development for teachers and maintaining the positive relationship with co-workers in the workplace. Originality/value: Several studies had examined the influence of organizational culture, OCB and IWB toward employee performance and explore the role of OCB and IWB as the mediating variables in this study. Indeed, there is a shortage of investigation the organizational culture as mediating variables on the relationship between OCB and IWB toward employee performance. This study provides a new escalation scope and sequence for research outcomes in the field of employee performance. Thus, this study has made the theoretical and practical contributions to employee performance by studying the mediating effect of organizational culture. Keywords: Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), Innovative Work Behavior (IWB), Organizational Culture (OC), Employee Performance (EP)., Introduction In today's knowledge-based environment, it has always been a common demand to explore employee performance in all sector all over the world. In recent years, the employee's performance is [...]

School districts face difficult curricular decisions every day. With shrinking budgets and an emphasis on reading and mathematics test scores, many schools have opted to decrease instruction time in science [...]

Is it good enough for my own three children? More importantly, is it good enough for your children or grandchildren? This is the question I ask myself, my administrative team [...]

It's amazing to discover how little has been written about school system governance and the roles of trustees and superintendents as partners in reform at the district and state levels. [...]

Back in September, a rightwing Texas group decided that the state's stupid law (https://www.wonkette.com/texas-senate-discovers-martin-luther-king-was-one-of-those-awful-critical-race-theorists-all-along) banning the teaching of 'critical race theory' in schools was a good step, but it fretted [...]

Texas's (https://www.wonkette.com/texas-senate-discovers-martin-luther-king-was-one-of-those-awful-critical-race-theorists-all-along) dumb law forbidding the teaching of 'critical race theory' has led the school district in McKinney, Texas, to eliminate a popular elective program that gave students the chance [...]

An initiative in your school district costs at least $50,000 per year, places undue stress on administrators and faculty and is likely to bear little impact 011 student achievement. Your [...]

Carla Santorno, the superintendent in Tacoma, Wash., was bemused by the question. During a 2018 interview with staff from the National Superintendents Roundtable, she'd been asked how her school district [...]