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How To Be A Wise Consumer Of Coaching
Instructional coaching is gaining popularity as a school-based effort to increase teacher effectiveness and student achievement. A coach can be broadly defined as a person who works collaboratively wi..
Plagiarism Isn't Just An Issue For Students
Teresa Lozano was working in the high school library during her conference period, preparing for an upcoming lesson. As she searched for current information and bookmarked web sites, she overheard a d..
From The Director
Educators guided by analysis of student data are in the best position to identify the help they need to address their most important challenges. While the first part of Learning Forward’s definition..
Abstracts
The Perfect Partnership: What it Takes to Build and Sustain Relationships that Benefit Students. By Joellen Killion When educators consider potential partnerships, they..
Collaborative Culture
Geoffrey Canada said in a recent presentation, “Education is the only business I know of where you can change anything you want, as long as you change nothing” (2010). After so much debate and ..
Cultural Proficiency
We have always said that becoming culturally proficient is a journey, not a destination. Our four-stage model for developing cultural proficiency is based on the notion of continuous growth. And even ..
Tool
Directions: Brainstorming is a way of generating an assortment of ideas without criticism or judgment about the quality of those ideas. The team leader, or another team member, can us..
From The Editor
As professional learning has transformed from one-shot and short-term trainings into job- embedded, team-based, and results-driven professional development, so, too, has the perception of the external..
Collaboration Paints A Bight Future For Arts Education
Ask a group of struggling elementary school students which ones want to give up a month of vacation to go to summer school, and you’ll see few, if any, raised hands. Most students attend summer scho..
Fellowship Connects Principal Learning To Student Achievement
The holy grail of education leadership is that of the principal as instructional leader. Are aspiring principals effectively prepared for this role in the master’s degree programs that most states r..