Continuing professional development approaches such as professional learning communities (PLCs) could help schools to sustainably work on school improvement to meet the rapid changes in the world around us. Sustainability is achieved when the core components of the approach become a self-evident and …

Parental support is critical for young children’s language and literacy development. It is important that teachers are aware of this parental role. Particularly in the case of lower‐educated parents, teachers can improve their education when they engage parents in partnerships to support young children’s …

In considering how to better support teacher and school leader careers, the ET2020 Working Group on Schools has redressed the balance by understanding better the lived experience of individual teachers and school leaders. The starting point was to focus on what teachers may want from their careers as …

Across the globe, linguistically heterogeneous populations increasingly define school systems at the same time that developing the ability to communicate cross-culturally is becoming essential for internationalized economies. While these trends seem complimentary, they often appear in paradoxical opposition …

Uit de gesprekken met het team dat de strategie van De Haagse Hogeschool (HHs) implementeert, is gebleken dat de HHs in 2019 een SDG Charter heeft getekend. Het SDG Charter is een intentieverklaring die in 2015 als eerste door premier Rutte is ondertekend om het behalen van SDG’s (Sustainable Development …

Purpose: Literature detailing the effectiveness of school-based physical activity promotion in- terventions in prevocational adolescents was reviewed to identify effective intervention characteristics. Methods: The search strategy assessed studies against inclusion criteria study design, study population, …

This paper investigates whether encouraging children to become more physically active in their everyday life affects their primary school performance. We use data from a field quasi‐experiment called the Active Living Program, which aimed to increase active modes of transportation to school and active …

Formative assessment has been rapidly gaining world-wide popularity due to its widely acknowledged potential to enhance student learning. However, change in education has often proved to be slow and impeded by many factors and studies show that formative assessment often fails to yield the promised results, …

Na het sluiten van de verzorgingshuizen zijn woongroepen een belangrijke schakel in het aanbod van de huisvesting voor ouderen geworden. Er is een gat ontstaan in de huisvestingsvraag voor ouderen die niet langer thuis willen of kunnen wonen, maar ook niet in aanmerking komen voor opname in een verpleeghuis. …

The presentation illustrates how an international business school links the school’s international education and research curriculum to the parent university’ more regionally dominated strategy. The presentation will highlight how to interpret regional goals set by policy makers into international actions …