开发统一的领导体系——乔治亚州与俄勒冈州执行的领导政策框架

在美国，州与学区的政策都有效影响了学校领导的发展。这些政策大致可以归为三类：1．标准类：教育领导者应该知道并能做什么？2．培训类：我们如何培训领导者了解并能够履行这些标准？3．环境类：影响教育领导者如何以及是否能够最好地履行自己能力的工作环境与政策是什么？     

ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF PARENT–TEACHER RELATIONSHIPS FOR STUDENTS WITH ADHD

Family involvement in education, including the quality of family–school communication, has been demonstrated repeatedly to have a substantial effect on child development and success in school; however, measures of this construct are limited. The purpose this study was to examine the factor structure and concurrent validity of the Quality of the Parent–Teacher Relationship, a subscale of the Parent–Teacher Involvement Questionnaire, in a sample of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants were 260 parents and teachers of children diagnosed with ADHD in Grades kindergarten to 6. Results provided support for a two‐factor model, consisting of separate factors for parents and teachers, and correlational findings provided support for concurrent validity. This measure appears to have utility in assessing parent–teacher relationships and evaluating the effectiveness of family–school interventions.     

The effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction

This study assessed the effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction. Thirty-three Israeli mothers and their 24- to 36-month-old toddlers (16 boys) from middle-high socioeconomic status participated in three within-subjects experimental conditions: maternal smartphone use, maternal magazine reading, and uninterrupted dyadic free-play. The mothers produced fewer utterances, provided fewer responses to child bids, missed child bids more often, and exchanged fewer conversational turns with their children when engaged with a smartphone or printed magazines compared to uninterrupted free-play. The quality of maternal responsiveness was also decreased. These findings suggest maternal smartphone use compromises mother–child interaction, which given smartphone ubiquity in daily life may have negative effects on child development in various domains, including language, cognition, and socioemotional regulation.     

Tensionalities in the collaborative instructional design process

This paper is a retrospective restorying of an instructional design project in which members of a large urban school board collaborated with faculty members of a large university to design and produce an interactive videodisc. This story has been told from a number of perspectives, but is reframed in this paper as a process of culture building in which the design family is the basis of meaning and action. Conversation-based design is suggested as the tool and the content of the family culture. In particular, conversation is a cultural artifact revealing stories of tensionalities in the design process that frame the theoretical constructs in this collaborative model.     

Aligning experiences: comparing and contrasting K12 and post-secondary space,resources, and services to smooth the college transition

Abstract

In this study, researchers used basic qualitative research to understand the spaces, resources, and services available to K12 students in their school libraries. Using observation and semi-structured interviews with K12 teacher librarians, this research allowed for a comparison of the K12 and post-secondary environments through which the authors were able to identify similarities and differences in function and service. In this article, the authors explore strategies to ease the transition of K12 students to the college environment, including collaboration between post-secondary and K12 libraries, robust orientation programs, and alignment of information literacy initiatives. This article adds to the body of college readiness literature and suggests avenues for future research.