As two former school superintendents, we’ve witnessed firsthand how learning communities can enrich the personal and professional lives of classroom teachers. In school systems nationwide, we have ...
A superintendent’s experience building a school district’s collective leadership and action through collaboration and a guiding coalition.
Research has found that high-quality curricula have a significant impact on student achievement (Steiner, 2017; Chingos & Whitehurst, 2012). But a curriculum is not effective on its own. It requires ...
Peer-led groups of faculty and professionals. (8-30 participants per group). Designed for active engagement, collaboration, and action research on topics ranging from academic technology to equity in ...
Post by Julianne Turner, Ph.D. Dr. Turner has worked with teachers in several professional development projects to support increased student engagement through teacher instruction. She is Professor ...
While Ranch Creek Elementary students soak in the freedom that twice-monthly two-hour late starts allow, their teachers are hard at work inside the classroom. They are bouncing ideas off of one ...
Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2009), pp. 149-171 (23 pages) This study is a survey and interpretation of professional development literature related ...
Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 24, No. 7 (November 2013), pp. 1201-1218 (18 pages) Emerging from Bandura's Social Learning Theory, this study of inservice elementary school teachers ...
When Cobden Junior-Senior High School Principal Crystal Housman and several teachers attended a PLC (professional learning community) conference five years ago, they decided they wanted their school ...
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The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City’s education department announced a new tool that will share progress toward critical work ...