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    What Are We Learning About How We Learn?

    By Bruce Joyce
    June 2016
    Vol. 37 No. 3
    Remarkably, although today’s world teems with pundits and policymakers telling us how to run schools and classrooms, they supply little support for research on what educators are actually like, how we learn, or how we can generate schools where the least likely kids thrive and their neighborhoods get better. New — and very good — curriculums and technologies (i.e. Common Core State Standards; science, technology, engineering, and math; and information and communication technologies) are ready for implementation, but states and school districts have few places to get help in designing the amounts and types of professional development that will enable them to fulfill the promise of those advances. For 35 years, our colleagues and we have struggled to put a few teaspoons of information into

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    Authors

    Bruce Joyce and Emily Calhoun

    Bruce Joyce (brucejoyce40@gmail.com) is director of Booksend Laboratories. Emily Calhoun (efcphoenix2@gmail.com) is director of The Phoenix Alliance.

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

    Joyce, B. & Showers, B. (2003). Student achievement through staff development. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

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


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