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    By Learning Forward
    Categories: Implementation
    December 2015
    Almost every day, we wonder how to make career-long inquiry a centerpiece of the work life of educators. The challenges of implementing the Common Core State Standards and Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) provide momentum for facilitating teacher learning far beyond the capacity of current formal and informal professional development in most school districts. Joining the demands of Common Core and STEM are the needs to eliminate inequities not only in inner cities but also the struggling neighborhoods in small towns and rural areas and socioeconomic, ethnic, and racial differences everywhere. In addition, gender differences are growing. In United States colleges and universities, three-fifths of undergraduate students are women. Hispanic, black, and white students have large gender differences, again favoring women, in high school

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    Bruce Joyce and Emily Calhoun

    Bruce Joyce (brucejoyce40@gmail.com) is director of Booksend Laboratories and Emily Calhoun (efcphoenix2@gmail.com) is director of the Phoenix Alliance in Saint Simons, Georgia.

    References

    Feistritzer, E. (2013). Profile of teachers in the U.S. 2011. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Information.

    Fry, R. &Taylor, P. (2013). Hispanic high school students pass whites in rate of college enrollment. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.

    Hill, P., Bonan, J., & Warner, K. (1992). Uplifting education: Sending schools soaring with site-based management. American School Board Journal, 179(3), 21-25.

    Joyce, B. & Calhoun, E. (2010). Models of professional development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

    Joyce, B., Weil, M., & Calhoun, E. (2015). Models of teaching (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

    National Center for Education Statistics. (2013). Schools and staffing survey (NCES 2014356). Washington, DC: Author. 


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