The 2nd-grade team at McWhirter Elementary Professional Development Laboratory School, Clear Creek Independent School District, Webster, Texas, is the winner of the Shirley Hord Learning Team Award. Presented by Learning Forward and Corwin Press, this award is given to a team of teachers that demonstrates Learning Forward’s definition of professional development in action. Two schools, Quil Ceda and Tulalip Elementary School, Marysville, Wash., and Haslet Elementary School, Haslet, Texas, were named runners-up. “These teachers recognize that they can accomplish more together than individually and so they meet throughout the week to plan, reflect, read, and problem solve issues related to instructional practice,” said McWhirter Elementary principal Michael Marquez. Thanks to the team’s efforts to increase reading levels and maximize small-group and one-to-one instruction in math,