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    How to Build Schools Where Adults Learn

    By Learning Forward
    Categories: Learning designs
    April 2014
    In the current, very complex, and even conflicted discourse about schools, one thing is clear: Schools need to be about student learning. Schools need to ensure that students are good readers, proficient writers, capable mathematicians, competent scientists, and knowledgeable historians. Students also need to learn to work together, be healthy, be resilient, and care about others. There is a lot of learning to be done. However, some leaders of this student learning also understand that, in order for students to learn at high levels, the adults in schools must learn new programs, new strategies, new ways of working together, and even new ways of thinking about who their students are and what it means to be a teacher. In other words, there is a lot

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    Authors

    Kevin Fahey and Jacy Ippolito

    Kevin Fahey (kfahey@salemstate.edu) is a professor and Jacy Ippolito (jippolito@salemstate.edu) is an assistant professor at Salem State University.

    References

    Breidenstein, A., Fahey, K., Glickman, C., & Hensley, F. (2012). Leading for powerful learning: A guide for instructional leaders. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

    Bryk, A.S., Sebring, P.B., Allensworth, E., Luppescu, S., & Easton, J.Q. (2010). Organizing schools for improvement: Lessons from Chicago. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    Drago-Severson, E. (2008). 4 practices serve as pillars for adult learning. JSD, 29(4), 60-63.

    Ippolito, J. (2013). Professional learning as the key to linking content and literacy instruction. In J. Ippolito, J.F. Lawrence, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Adolescent literacy in the era of the Common Core: From research into practice (pp. 235-249). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

    Kegan, R. (1998). In over our heads: The mental demands of modern life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    McLaughlin, M. & Talbert, J. (2006). Building school-based teacher learning communities: Strategies to improve student achievement. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

    School Reform Initiative. (2013). Resource and protocol book. Denver, CO: Author.

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