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From The Editor
Raise your hand if you’ve been in a workshop that included either of the following movie clips to illustrate what it means to really collaborate: the barn-raising scene in Witness or the sc..
Learning To Be A Community
Making schools learning places for teachers as well as students is a timeless and appealing vision. The growing number of professional learning communities is a hopeful sign that profound change is on..
You've Been Evaluated. Now What?
“I’ve just had my first evaluation in our new system. Now what do I do?” This school year, countless teachers are participating in new evaluation systems. Many have invested deeply..
Create a Learning Team Road Map
Learning teams must take many steps in making their time together meaningful and productive. In addition to knowing who is meeting, what student needs they’ll address, what norms they’ll set for t..
Strong Teams, Strong Schools
Schools rise and fall based on the quality of the teamwork that occurs within their walls. Well-functioning leadership and teaching teams are essential to the continuous improvement of teaching and le..
A Tune-up For Stymied Teams
By spring break, the common thread that bound together the team of middle school teachers with whom I worked as a professional development coach and planning team facilitator was unraveling at a rapid..
All Aboard!
Collaborative learning teams are improving teacher practice and student learning results in the Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District near Des Moines, Iowa. Since 2009, all teachers and pr..
The Collaborative Compact
The meeting was finished, and some teachers lingered. We had just completed grade-level revisions on writing rubrics. One teacher said, “I wish all collaboration could be this effective. We got so m..
Up Close
We Need to Talk Productive conversations are a central element of collaborative learning, and, in many cases, those conversations are difficult because of disagreements and conflicts. Here ..
