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Common Core
August 2013
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ARTICLES
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Time for Learning In this webinar, Learning Forward Senior Advisor Joellen Killion leads a discussion of a seven-step process for establishing time within the school day for professional learning. Topics […]
10 Good Ways to Ensure Bad Professional Learning
An external coach takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how to spend professional development time and money. (Available to the public.)
15 Minutes to a Transformed Lesson
A 10- to 15-minute content analysis conversation benefits teachers and students by generating clearer thinking about the teacher's objectives, what ideas should be highlighted, and what relationship the ideas in the content have to each other.
Flex Your School's Data Muscles
What leaders can do to create a high-performing data culture in their school or district.
From The Director
From the director By Stephanie Hirsh (Available to the public.)
Abstracts
Investments in Professional Learning Must Change: The goals are ambitious, the stakes are high — and resources are the key. By Joellen Killion and Stephanie Hirsh Traditional professional development is […]
Learning Forward Foundation Award Winners
Learning Forward Foundation award winners
Taking Measure of Strategic Priorities
Taking measure of strategic priorities
On Board
Leadership at all levels
Book Club
Book Club
Fort Wayne Initiative Strengthens Leadership
Principals institute in Fort Wayne
Collaborative Culture
Perfectionism limits our chances to risk, learn, grow, and succeed.
Tool
Establishing time for professional learning. (Available to the public.)
Essentials
Engaging teachers, Smarter spending, Measuring student skills, Blended learning benefits, Online vs. face-to-face, Improving math scores, Digital tools
From The Editor
From The Director (Available to the Public)
Reading, Writing, and Rubrics
A writing program for middle school using a norming protocol offers important lessons for expanding teachers' assessment capabilities through professional learning.
Building Common Knowledge
Step-by-step, teachers in a New Hampshire district gained a shared understanding of the Common Core standards. District support was crucial to the process. Here's what they learned along the way. (Available to the public.)
Literacy Gets a Makeover
Literacy gets a makeover: Engaged learning boosts student achievement at Michigan High SchoolDownloadNow_small By Richard E. Wood and Helen L. Burz Teachers at E.A. Johnson High School in Mt. Morris, Mich., focused on effective literacy practices for learning, resulting in dramatic gains in student performance and reading assessment.
Teachers Connect With Technology
Teachers, curriculum experts, and other educators work together using online tools developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create high-quality, useful lessons and research-based instructional tools incorporating the Common Core State Standards.
Total Immersion
Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools addresses the switch to Common Core with an internal website for teachers to share performance tasks and systemwide, school-based professional learning that has put the standards into practice.
Investments in Professional Learning Must Change
Traditional professional development is inadequate to meet the changes demanded by Common Core. Effective professional learning requires clear outcomes, a long-term plan for supporting implementation, and committed resources. A list of recommended investments in professional learning points the way. (Available to the public.)
Up Close
Put the Partner in ‘Partnership’ Third-party providers help school systems meet their goals of providing high-quality education to every student. As external providers, they offer the services, products, and goods […]
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