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    The 3 R's Of Learning Time

    Rethink, Reshape, Reclaim

    By Learning Forward
    February 2012
    Vol. 33 No. 1
    As a Learning School Alliance facilitator, I have had the opportunity to work with schools nationally and internationally, and one of the biggest challenges that school teams face is finding time for collaborative learning. The Learning School Alliance is a network of schools collaborating about professional practice. The network embodies Learning Forward’s purpose to advance effective job-embedded professional learning that leads to student outcomes. A key component of Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning is a focus on collaborative learning, typically in learning communities. These learning communities are committed to collective responsibility, goal alignment, and ongoing job-embedded professional learning. However, collaborative learning must be job-embedded and connected to teaching and learning (Killion & Roy, 2009). Traditionally, most professional development has taken place outside the school day or

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    Becoming a Learning School

    By Joellen Killion & Patricia Roy

    NSDC, 2009

    From setting the stage to engaging the community in understanding the purpose of collaborative professional learning teams, this book covers what leaders need to know to implement more effective professional learning. Chapter 5 focuses on scheduling time for both formal and informal learning opportunities. Included are 12 tools to guide schools and districts through the steps outlined in the chapter.

    www.learningforwardstore.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=ea3d95e2be26d8a2e15b5d7446e7f441&Store_Code=The_Learning_Forward_Store&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=B423

    Ambassadors of learning: Teachers’ enthusiasm builds momentum for district’s long-running program

    By Valerie von Frank

    JSD, Spring 2009, Vol. 30, No. 2

    A long-term commitment to job-embedded professional development creates a culture of continuous learning in one Michigan district. Every Wednesday, students’ day is shortened by two hours to make time for teachers’ professional development in Holt Public Schools. Many of the articles in this issue of JSD are devoted to time for professional learning.

    www.learningforward.org/news/articleDetails.cfm?articleID=1833

    Bargaining time: Union contract spells out how and when professional learning will happen

    By Joan Richardson

    The Learning System, March 2007, Vol. 2, No. 6

    A district undergoes a cultural shift to more job-embedded, results-driven, and standards-based professional development. The new approach was made possible in large part because the teachers union and the district shifted to an interest-based bargaining model rather than the traditional adversarial model. The newsletter also includes a tool, “Strategies for finding time.”

    www.learningforward.org/news/issueDetails.cfm?issueID=197

    School’s out. It’s time to learn!

    By Karel Holloway

    Tools for Schools, April/May 2003, Vol. 6, No. 5

    This article outlines six steps to creating a summer professional learning program: Choose your planning team, look at the data, set goals, decide how to achieve them, determine funding and location, and plan follow-up. Included in the newsletter are four tools and a list of resources for planning a summer learning program.

    www.learningforward.org/news/issueDetails.cfm?issueID=124

    References

    Fullan, M. & Stiegelbauer, S.M. (1991). The new meaning of educational change. Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

    Hord, S.M. (2004). Learning together, leading together: Changing schools through professional learning communities. New York: Teachers College Press.

    Killion, J. & Roy, P. (2009). Becoming a learning school. Oxford, OH: NSDC.


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