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Implementation Fidelity Affects The Degree Of Change In Teacher Practice
What The Study Says School improvement that depends on professional development as a primary means for implementing effective instructional practice requires deliberate attention to ..
Beyond The Workshop
The “If not a workshop, then what?” list on p. 55 is a popular bookmark and tool for Learning Forward members and learning leaders to use in conversations in school-based teams, with central offic..
Essentials
Facebook Support Teacher Peer Support in Social Network Sites Teaching and Teache..
Fundamentals Make A Difference At Every Skill Level
If I were to map my trajectory as a cook, plotting the growth of my ability to put a decent meal together, the line would be all over the place. I didn’t plan to learn a few fundamental dishes fi..
What Are We Learning About How We Learn?
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 ..
Nimble Navigation
The purpose of professional learning is to change what teachers know and can do to better support student learning. Over the last decade, professional learning has changed dramatically in an attempt t..
An Open Door To Learning
When I began my work as a curriculum consultant for a local school board more than 10 years ago, most professional development took place at the district office or another central location, such as ca..
Establish Time For Learning
The issue in brief The major challenge with time is finding it. Current school-day schedules and school-year calendars are leaner than ever because of budget reductions. States and districts..
Expanding Excellence
On the day her colleague Kathy Gray came to observe a lesson, Kimberly Worley was introducing an idea for projects to her 10th-grade biology students. Noticing students’ lack of enthusiasm, she clos..
The Sandwich Strategy
Teachers are regularly asked to use data to inform their instruction. In the past, teachers examined student work in isolation (Little, Gearhart, Curry, & Kafka, 2003). Now, however, teachers incr..
