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Luis Planas is a numeracy instructional coach in Bridgeport, Conn. In his nine years of coaching, he has learned the key ingredients to providing teachers effective professional learning.

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It’s a familiar story: A cycle of mutually reinforcing and often self-defeating conditions shapes the schooling of young people in the nation’s cities. A diverse and historically underserved student population struggles with academic learning and social adjustment in a context of limited resources. Support for staff efforts or special student […]

Quality leadership is a must in any important human pursuit, and education is no exception. While teachers have the most direct and obvious impact on student learning, the school leader is in the best position to ensure that excellent teaching and learning aren’t limited to single classrooms but spread throughout […]

The Principal Story is a national broadcast film and media outreach project commissioned by The Wallace Foundation. Originally broadcast on PBS, the film follows the journey of two elementary school principals throughout a school year as they strive to improve student achievement and implement school reform. Featured are novice principal […]

Do you believe that using data effectively plays a big role in the success of students? I certainly do. As principal of Ernie Pyle Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M., my goal in collecting data is “to transform data into information, and information into insight” (Fiorina, 2004). Having data about student […]

DALLAS–March 31, 2010– Maryland State Department of Education and National Staff Development Council jointly released today a resource guide for assisting schools and districts to evaluate the impact of teacher professional development on teaching practice and student learning. Teacher Professional Development Evaluation Guide, written by M. Bruce Haslam of Policy […]