Tedra Clark

Research suggests that building strong school leadership may help turn the tables on declining student achievement and educator turnover. In this project, the researchers will examine the impact of a widely used leadership professional learning (PL) program-Balanced Leadership for Student Learning (BLfSL)TM-on important student and educator outcomes. The program, which builds education leaders' knowledge, skills, and strategies and provides resources and tools for engaging in highly effectiv...

In some states, rural students continue to lag significantly behind their non-rural peers in mathematics achievement. A strong correlate of the mathematics achievement gap between rural and non-rural students is the availability for opportunities to learn. Providing supplemental learning activities can help improve the mathematics achievement of rural students by providing students with additional opportunities to learn the content. This study will evaluate the efficacy of a supplemental mat...