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Learning to pivot
August 2024
Sometimes new information and situations call for major change. This issue shows how professional learning helps educators pivot, by bridging the gap between knowing better and doing better.
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In This Issue
FOCUS
Success stories highlight how educators can pivot
Investing in professional learning builds educators’ capacity to initiate, evaluate, and recalibrate change.
Professional learning is key to improving reading
Supporting teachers is essential for improving literacy outcomes for students of all backgrounds.
Professional learning to improve reading instruction: State policies
Infographic highlights trends in state literacy policies. Professional learning is essential for these efforts to succeed.
ReadOhio initiative emphasizes professional learning to improve instruction
The first of two companion pieces shows how Ohio’s statewide reading instruction initiative puts professional learning at the center.
Pilot study examines the feasibility of a peer coaching model
The second of two companion pieces spotlights an Ohio district’s approach to improving literacy through coaching.
Strong leaders help teachers adapt to improved literacy instruction
Implementing research-based teaching methods requires leadership skills and an investment in professional learning to address teachers’ needs.
Residency model powers district’s structured literacy reform
Pivoting to classroom-embedded professional learning helped teachers improve students’ reading proficiency.
Choice and agency drive educators’ engagement in online literacy course
A high degree of autonomy within a mandated course helped ease teachers’ concerns about new reading instruction methods.
AI is here. Let’s learn to use it wisely.
Innovator A.J. Juliani, a self-described “realist” about technology, helps educators use AI to improve teaching and learning.
A new way of thinking about reducing racial disparities in discipline
A course in empathy can break the cycle of student-teacher conflict.
Learning network shifts districts’ approach to summer programs
Support from the District Summer Learning Network equips educators to solve complex challenges.
TOOLS
A tool to address educators’ concerns about change
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) offers a way to understand change and address common concerns related to it.
How educators can apply the standards when making instructional pivots
Discussion questions to deepen your learning from this issue.
IDEAS
Coaching heavy, coaching light: How to deepen professional practice
How coaches practice affects teachers’ instruction, students’ learning, and the field of coaching.
Forces that shape coaches’ classroom access
School leaders and structures either facilitate or impede the potential of coaching.
3 practices promote intercultural understanding in Canada
Three transformative concepts can guide teachers and school leaders to make classrooms inclusive of Indigenous and Western cultures.
RESEARCH
We’re broadening our research focus, thanks to your feedback
To serve our readers’ needs, this column will now include more content on professional learning evaluation, evidence, and data.
Data points
New findings on teacher teams’ benefits, increased participation in a teacher academy, higher 9th grade GPAs in a school improvement network, and more.
VOICES
Denise Augustine
Board member spotlight
Making a difference with students drives her professional learning
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