Professional Learning Teams
Learn about how teachers use professional learning communities to share their expertise and improve their teaching skills
Professional Development
Opinion
How Can PLCs Improve Their Learning Power?
Follow these resolutions to improve the strength of your professional learning community.
Professional Development
Opinion
Florida District Partners With Teachers to Redesign Professional Learning
A team participating in the Redesign PD Community of Practice sees evidence that professional learning, designed in partnership with teachers, can lead to improvements in student learning.
Professional Development
Opinion
Trusting Collegial Relationships Build Strengths in Learning Systems
School leaders in Santa Fe (Texas) ISD form a principal PLC to build common language and learning designs together as they work toward their vision and goals.
Professional Development
For Teachers Who Feel 'Caged in,' a New Course Gives Strategies on Busting Out
A free online professional-learning course seeks to help teachers gain more authority and autonomy in education policy matters.
Teaching Profession
Study: Teacher Satisfaction, Collaboration Are Keys to Student Achievement
Teacher job satisfaction, a schoolwide professional community, and student achievement are all linked in elementary school, a new study says.
Teaching Profession
Richard DuFour, Advocate of Professional Learning Communities, Dies at 69
DuFour was an education consultant and author who advocated collaborative teaching environments to help educators improve their classroom practice.
Assessment
Opinion
Discover the Power of The Words 'Not Yet'
In formal/academic learning what often gets in the way, for children and professionals, is the lack of time and effort given to understanding and agreeing to the objectives and standards to which we are striving.
Professional Development
Opinion
Four Ways to Make Professional Development Work
Consultant and leadership coach Thomas Van Soelen, Ph.D is our guest blogger who writes the assumptions schools often make about teachers new to the profession can be quite destructive, particularly when planning teacher induction programs.
Professional Development
Opinion
Lessons From the Redesign PD Community of Practice
All educators can benefit from the work of the 22 districts participating in Learning Forward's Redesign PD Community of Practice.
Professional Development
Opinion
Can Project-Based Learning and Professional Learning Communities Counter Hate Speech?
Schools are seeing eruptions of the mimicking behavior seen on the campaign trail. Name calling and other painful and more aggressive actions follow.
Professional Development
An Effective Teacher Can Improve Student Learning Across the Grade, Study Finds
A recent study that looked at over a decade of data found there is a positive spillover effect in teaching, as student achievement improves when an effective teacher joins a grade-level team.
Professional Development
Opinion
Michael Fullan Affirms the Power of Collective Efficacy
Once again, we have evidence that harnessing the power of the group rather than relying solely on the individual is key to unlocking the full potential of educators and students in schools.
Professional Development
Opinion
How Professional Learning Communities Benefit Students and Teachers
When educators pursue higher-quality teaching practices, students benefit from their targeted professional learning.
Professional Development
Opinion
How to Avoid Conference Overload
It's officially summer edconference season. Many educators on "summer vacation" are spending their summer days in air-conditioned sessions building out their edutoolkit. However, most conference-goers I chat with cite "overwhelmed" as their primary emotion when leaving. So how to avoid this feeling? Here are some tips I use to help me leave fulfilled yet focused.
