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Beyond Professional Development

Breaking boundaries and liberating a learning profession

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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Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to those who work in educator professional development. We help our members plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning so they can achieve success with their systems, schools, and students.


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