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5th-grade Science Intervention Focuses On English Language Learners
What the Study Says At the end of the first of three years, a curriculum and professional development intervention for 5th-grade students with a focus on English language learners had a posi..
Essentials: Keeping Up With Hot Topics In The Field
PDK Poll The 48th Annual PDK Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools PDK International, September 2016 The 2016 Phi Delta Kappa national surve..
What Do You Believe You Believe?
Discussing our beliefs about people whose race, religion, or socioeconomic backgrounds differ from our own can get uncomfortable. For one thing, we may not feel safe saying what we really believe. For..
The Value of Coaching
Claire Gibbons and Noelle Taylor are friends. They meet regularly, share common interests, work on projects together, and hold similar goals. Not only are they friends, they are also colleagues who te..
Strike the right balance
What drives professional learning — personalized individual staff and school needs or districtwide goals? This is the question that educators in Pittsburgh Public Schools and other districts across ..
We’re All In This Together
Like many schools across the country, Peters K-3 Elementary School in Garden Grove, California, is committed to equity, social justice, and eliminating achievement and opportunity gaps. To achieve the..
A Process of Discovery
The collaborative analysis of student learning (Colton, Langer, & Goff, 2015) is a professional learning design that transforms teachers’ capacities and commitment to relentlessly pursue and use..
Questions that Lead To Action
Marcella and Michael have near-perfect 4th-grade attendance records at a pre-K-8 public school in Chicago, Illinois. Marcella and her family are recent immigrants. With the highest national level o..
How Do I Teach English Learners?
High school content teachers are often unfamiliar with teaching English learner students in the mainstream. They are sometimes unsure of the needs of English learner students and do not know how to te..
An Equal Chance at Success
The Outcomes standard of Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning (Learning Forward, 2011) emphasizes professional learning that impacts teacher practice in a way that supports high le..
