Why we must transform professional learning so that it really supports educator learning.
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This article is adapted from the report Moving From Compliance to Agency: What Teachers Need to Make Professional Learning Work (Calvert, 2016). The full report is available at www.learningforward.org/publications/teacher-agency.
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Calvert, L. (2016). Moving from compliance to agency: What teachers need to make professional learning work. Oxford, OH: Learning Forward & NCTAF.
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Noonan, J. (2014, Summer). In here, out there: Professional learning and the process of school improvement. Harvard Educational Review, 84(2), 145-161.
TNTP. (2015). The mirage: Confronting the hard truth about our quest for teacher development. Washington, DC: Author.
Laurie Calvert is a National Board Certified teacher who taught for 14 years in western North Carolina. She served as the U.S. Department of Education’s first teacher liaison from 2010 to 2015 and is director of communications and marketing for National Network of State Teachers of the Year.
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