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Collaborative Culture
About a decade ago, I came across the following passage from Haim Ginott, child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. “I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the deci..
Tool
Learning communities can use this tool to gain a deeper understanding of the Standards for Professional Learning. Purpose The purpose of unpacking the Standards for Profess..
Essentials
Fixing Education America the Fixable: The Broken Promise of American Education The A..
From The Editor
Learning communities are moving beyond their adolescent years, and you can see their evolution in education literature, in practice, and in the Standards for Professional Learning. The earlier Stan..
Give Teams A Running Start
When an educator tells me, “We’re doing professional learning communities this year,” that phrasing makes me wonder whether they’re simply forming new small groups or undertaking the multiyear..
Team Check-up
The professional learning community movement has taught educators that “a collection of superstar teachers working in isolation cannot produce the same results as interdependent colleagues who share..
Where Principals Dare To Dream
Being a principal was the most demanding job I ever had. I worked hard, mostly in isolation. Like most principals, I struggled to manage the position’s political and bureaucratic necessities in orde..
Midwestern Magic
“I’ve been through five years of 17 different initiatives, and nothing seemed to fit together. Halfway through my first day of authentic intellectual work training, the light bulb ..
I Am A Professional
On a highway that cuts through the downtown of a large urban city was a billboard that read: “Want to teach? When can you start?” It made us think long and hard about the message society sends ..
A Tapestry Of Inquiry And Action
Imagine a system of learning such as this, where learning for everyone is pervasive, where adults routinely let go of their expertise in ways that enable authentic exploration of new ideas and new pra..
